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Education and Popular Culture in the 20s

Education and Popular Culture in the 20s. How do schools & mass media shape the Roaring 20s?. Education on the rise. ● Public school enrollment increases by 2.5 million students in the 1920s. ● Secondary schools prepare students for job market (vocational education).

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Education and Popular Culture in the 20s

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  1. Education and Popular Culture in the 20s How do schools & mass media shape the Roaring 20s?

  2. Education on the rise ● Public school enrollment increases by 2.5 million students in the 1920s ● Secondary schools prepare students for job market (vocational education) ● Student dress, slang & behavior become the “norm” for pop culture ● School costs increase= tax increases for average citizens

  3. 1920s Fads 2) Dance Marathons 1) Flagpole sitting C R O 5) The Charleston P U Z Z L E S 3) Barnstormers 4) Games S W O R D

  4. Mass Media & Pop. Culture ● Newspaper & magazine circulation increases causing more literacy ● Radio: allows people to hear live sporting events, news & entertainment

  5. Sports Heroes • Baseball: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig & Andrew “Rube” Foster • Gertrude Ederie was first woman to swim the English Channel • Helen Willis dominated women’s tennis • Jack Dempsey dominates boxing

  6. ● 1928: First animated film w/ sound “Steamboat Willie” That’s Entertainment! ● Charlie Chaplain: most famous silent movie stars ● 1927: 1st movie with sound, “ The Jazz Singer” • George Gershwin = top composer of 1920s • Georgia O’ Keefe top 1920s artist

  7. Famous American Writers ● Sinclair Lewis = 1st American to win the Nobel Prize in literature ● F. Scott Fitzgerald = coined the term “jazz age” ● Edna St. Vincent Millay = wrote poems celebrating youth & independence ● Ernest Hemingway = Criticizes the glorification of war

  8. Aviation Heroes • Charles Lindbergh • 1st person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (1927) NY-Paris • Becomes instant celebrity • Amelia Earhart • 1st woman to cross Atlantic (1928, 1932) • 1st person to fly from HI to CA (1935) • Tries to circumnavigate the globe but plane disappears (1937)

  9. Film Clips: Amelia • Why did the men running the derby want to cut the race short? • What does Putnam tell another female flier? Do you think Earhardt care about winning? • What does Earhardt decide to do next? Describe the journey. • What issues does Earhardt face when she tries to circumnavigate the globe? • Was Earhardt or her plane ever found? Why was she so important for the role of women during this era?

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