Unit Overview
Roaring ‘20s Unit Overview
5 Days
Enduring Understanding The students will be able explain how life in the 1920 was influenced by the Industrial Revolution and Progressive Era, and how the 1920s influenced the 1930s.
Essential Questions
How did the 1920s represent a shift in traditional values?
Topics
Vocabulary (Consumer goods, stock market, credit, and prohibition.)
Life in the 1920s
Modern women
Modern life and consumer goods
The stock market
Prohibition
CC Literacy Standards Addressed
Key Ideas and Details
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to the domains, related to history/social studies
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades
6-
Learning Targets
I can accurately apply the unit’s vocabulary.
I can describe what life was like for the people of the United States during the 1920s.