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Roaring Twenties: Education and Popular Culture Evolution | Engaging Learning in the 1920s

Explore the dynamic shift in high school education and the vibrant cultural scene of the 1920s, from literature to sports icons and the influence of new media like radio and film. Uncover the era's iconic figures and artistic expressions.

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Roaring Twenties: Education and Popular Culture Evolution | Engaging Learning in the 1920s

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  1. Day 81 Education, Popular Culture • Homework: 446-457

  2. Schools • From 1916-1926 Enrollment in high school went from 1 to 4 million • High Schools change from college bound to vocational and industrial training • Challenge: Immigrant population

  3. News and Radio • Mass Circulation/ small newspapers collapse • Readers digest, Life and Times • Radio brings news as it happens

  4. 1920’s Film • Film Stars include: Rudolph Valnintino, Douglass Fairbanks and Mary pickford • Jazz Singer first major film with Sound

  5. New Heroes • Charles Lindbergh flies over the Atlantic. Receives Congressional Medal of Honor. • George Gershwin (use of Jazz) • Georgia O'Keefe- Captured the grandeur of New York ay beauty

  6. Literature of the lost Generation • F. Scott Fitzgerald (Great Gatsby and This side of Paradise) - Wealthy living hopelessly empty lives • Ernest Hemingway (The Sun also rises) • - Major critic of the glorification of War • Edna St. Vincent Millay (Poet) • Sinclair Lewis- used characters in Babbitt to mock American materialism

  7. Afternoon on a Hill I will be the gladdest thing    Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers    And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds    With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass,    And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show    Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine,    And then start down!

  8. Sun also Rises- Earnest Hemmingway • "It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people."

  9. Sinclair Lewis- Babbitt "Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue."

  10. Sports • Jack Dempsey v. Tunney “The Fight of the Century” • Babe Ruth “The Sultan of Swat”- hits 60 home runs • Red Grange (Chicago Bears) • Gertrude Ederle- swims the English Channel

  11. Summary Questions • Who produced intensely colored paintings that included the grandeur of New York? • Who’s career ended with his defeat by Gene Tunney? • Who made the first non stop solo flight across the Atlantic? • Composer who merged traditional music with Jazz? • Who’s poems celebrated youth and life? • Who wrote the Great Gatsby and this side of Paradise? • Which writer criticized war through books like the Sun Also Rises • Who mocked American materialism in his book Babbitt?

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