Monday 12/18

Topics: The Harlem Renaissance, The Scopes Trial, Eugenics, The Changing Role of Women, Prohibition,

Criteria for your Expert Groups review 1-sheet

1) Topic Overview (short paragraph)

2) Key People, Places, & Things (VOCAB!) (list of words & definitions)

3) Overview of relevant sources (articles, videos, etc.) (list them – quick gist statement about each)

4) Connection to Learning Target (1-2 sentences)

Sample: (read this for Do now)

The Ku Klux Klan

Overview: While the original Ku Klux Klan was founded after the Civil War, it had mostly died out. After the 1915 movie “Birth of a Nation” the Klan re-emerged, swelling to up to 8 million members around the country. Their major focuses were White Supremacy, Americanism, and Christianity. The groups they targeted included African-Americans, Immigrants, Jews, & Catholics. In this era they gained great political power, influencing elections around the country, and having many members in high positions of power. Also, they wore funny hats.

People, Places, & Things

Hiram Evans - Imperial Wizard of the KKK in the 1920s

Americanism – American Supremacy, in this case focused on natural-born citizens (vs. immigrants)

White Supremacy – the belief the Northern and Western Europeans are a chosen and special group, destined to rule and control “lesser” races of people

Protestantism – Various forms of Christianity that started by splitting off from Roman Catholicism during the protestant reformation

NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Protested racial violence and advocated for the rights of black Americans.

Birth of a Nation – racist, very popular film that came out in 1915 that glorified and rejuvenated the KKK

Nativism – the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants – often connected to racism and supremacy

Documents & Videos

“klan20s” Hiram Evans 1926 Speech gives a really good idea of exactly what they Klan believed and how they were able to bring so many people into their organization. This same document also includes an overview history of the Klan

“morekkk” is a story about a man in Greenville, Mississippi, who even though he may have been racist, rejected the KKK because of his close personal ties to Jewish & Catholic people, who were also targeted by the Klan

Connection to LT

I can evaluate the tension between change and tradition in 1920s society.

Because so much was changing in this era, from immigrants, to roles of women, to science challenging religion, to jazz & dancing, and urbanization, many parts of rural, white, traditional America began to feel afraid, uncomfortable, and left behind. Because of their fear of challenges to their way of life, they joined and grew the Klan to it’s highest levels ever. This is the perfect example of tradition backlashing against change across various fronts. They were sucked in by the values of Americanism and Christianity, but were also accepting nativist & white supremacist ideals.

11.4 Document

Friday 12/15

DLT.I can review my pre-vacation 1920s content

Do Now: With a partner, write out a list of topics we’ve studied in this LT Do Now Here. <<--- Click

Practice Questions

Review this reading before beginning your review questions



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Homework: Honors Essay, Honors Watch Videos from yesterday

CP Classwrok 12/14 - Prohibition

Honors Classwork Checklist 12/14

A Checklist to move you toward success

This is the assignment that is due 1/8. It is also in the sidebar over here for future reference ------------>

·      Think through the options to help you decide which topic you would like to research and write on. If I were trying to decide – I think the easiest thing to do would be to just read the Wikipedia (shhhhh) entry on it to help you make your decision

·      Once you’ve decided, then you should spend the period looking for articles and books (remember you need at least one print resource). Try to determine what you believe are the most ESSENTIAL resources for your particular topic. Example: an autobiography.

Essential Source List

Wednesday 12/13

Washington Post / Fox News 

File with all readings in it.

"The broad span of highly charged opinion about the "modern woman" is apparent in this contemporary commentary from periodicals, novels, advertisements, political cartoons, photographs, a sociological study, a European's travelogue, and more. Selections can be divided among students for research and classroom discussion. Note the similarities and differences from later debates over women's place in society, especially "women's lib" in the 1960s and 1970s, and the "superwoman" question of today. (16 pp.)"

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Homework CP: 1 page explaining the conflict over a woman's role and how it connects to our LT.

Homework: Honors Assignment: Continue reading through the readings that other people focused on and complete the following assignment (due Friday - grade: LT)

Write a short creative or narrative piece (newspaper editorial, newsreel segment, time-travel episode, dramatic scene, comedy sketch, memoir segment, free verse poem, etc.) to encapsulate the range of opinion about the "modern woman" in the 1920s, as reflected in this section's resources. You might begin or end with one of these statements.

• - "Let us be done forever with this nonsense about the equality of the sexes."
  John Macy, "Equality of Woman with Man: A Myth—A Challenge to Feminism," Harper's, November 1926
• - "Careers and children are satisfactory to women today when only a short while ago the two were thought incompatible."
  Dorothy Ducas, "Women's Economic Freedom Blamed in Marriage Decline," New York Evening Post, Jan. 5, 1929
• - "The house divided against itself does not, we observe, stand. Marriage dissolves in feminism as sugar melts in acid."
  Henry R. Carey, "This Two-Headed Monster—The Family," Harper's, January 1928
• - "The girls back in our college days were quite a diff'rent lot,
  They couldn't throw the hammer and they couldn't put-the-shot,
  They didn't know a hurdle from a hockey-stick, eh, what?
  THEM DAYS IS GONE FOREVER!"
  Al Posen, Them Days Is Gone Forever, comic strip, Chicago Tribune, October 17, 1922
• - "Exactly what do women want now. Just this. They ask the same rights, in law and in custom, with which every man is now endowed through the accident of being born a male."
  Doris Stevens, "Suffrage Does Not Give Equality," The Forum, August 1924
• - "It is a great mistake, however, to think that woman can ever be completely independent of man, no matter what she wishes to believe or have others believe."
  Dr. Joseph Collins, "Woman's Morality in Transition," Current History, October 1927
• - "Today Eve is outstripping Adam in more ways than one."
  "Are Women's Sports Too Strenuous?" newsreel, British Pathé News, 1925
• - "[S]olitary dishwashing isn't enough to satisfy me—or many other women. We're going to chuck it. We're going to wash 'em by machinery, and come out and play with you men in the offices and clubs and politics you've cleverly kept for yourselves. Oh, we're hopeless, we dissatisfied women!"
  Carol Kennicott, in Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, novel, 1920
• - "To begin with, it is very important to realize to the full the special position of women in the United States as contrasted with the rest of the world."
  Christine M. Frederick, Selling Mrs. Consumer, 1929

Tuesday December 12th

I am back today. 11.2 & 11.4 will have a different teacher today because I am meeting with Mrs. Jones.

Do Now: Take a few minutes to read the following overview of the famous Scopes trial.

Scopes Trial:

It made for great oratory between eminent rivals, and it put the debate over teaching evolution on front pages across the country. But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle the contentious issue of evolution in the schools, which continues to incite strong passions and court actions to this day. Narrowly, the trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man. Broadly, the case reflected a collision of traditional views and values with more modern ones: It was a time of evangelism by figures such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Billy Sunday against forces, including jazz, sexual permissiveness, and racy Hollywood movies, which they thought were undermining the authority of the Bible and Christian morals in society. John Scopes, the 24-year-old defendant, taught in the public high school in Dayton, Tenn., and included evolution in his curriculum. He agreed to be the focus of a test case attacking the new law, and was arrested for teaching evolution and tried with the American Civil Liberties Union backing his defense. His lawyer was the legendary Clarence Darrow, who, besides being a renowned defense attorney for labor and radical figures, was an avowed agnostic in religious matters. The state's attorney was William Jennings Bryan, a Christian, pacifist, and former candidate for the U.S. presidency. He agreed to take the case because he believed that evolution theory led to dangerous social movements. And he believed the Bible should be interpreted literally. The weather was stiflingly hot and the rhetoric equally heated in this "trial of the century" attended by hundreds of reporters and others who crowded the Rhea County Courthouse in July 1925. Rather than the validity of the law under which Scopes was being charged, the authority of the Bible versus the soundness of Darwin's theory became the focus of the arguments. "Millions of guesses strung together," is how Bryan characterized evolutionary theory, adding that the theory made man "indistinguishable among the mammals." Darrow, in his attacks, tried to poke holes in the Genesis story according to modern thinking, calling them "fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes." The jury found Scopes guilty of violating the law and fined him $100. Bryan and the anti-evolutionists claimed victory, and the Tennessee law would stand for another 42 years. But Clarence Darrow and the ACLU had succeeded in publicizing scientific evidence for evolution, and the press reported that though Bryan had won the case, he had lost the argument. The verdict did have a chilling effect on teaching evolution in the classroom, however, and not until the 1960s did it reappear in schoolbooks. Listen to this while reading transcript and take notes. Consider the target as your guidance for your notes. NPR: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial When you're done, please read these two pieces about Alabama's Senate race. Today is a big day in Alabama.... The Accusations Against Roy Moore NYTimes - Alabama Senate Race In Alabama, Democrat Fights History, Math in Senate Race CLICK TEXT FOR FORM TO SUBMIT RESPONSE! Honors Written Response CP Written Response No Homework Tonight but you can read this if you'd like

Monday 12/11

Sorry Gang, another atypical sick-out for me. Nothing too serious, I hope to be back tomorrow. 😐

Do Now: Answer these two questions

As you read and then watch the video today, add to your notes from Friday.

Reading:
The 1920s saw the foundations of Eugenics in the United States, which later inspired Hitler and his ideas of race and the "science" that he used to convince people he was right.
Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection

Video:
War on the Weak - Eugenics in America

Debrief: Answer these questions based on the reading (tip: you might want to read these before completing the reading)

Homework: Watch this additional video, take notes minimum 1 page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nshj9rCTPdE