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RESEARCH: The Jazz Age

Ms. Mathews

"Here was a new generation…" wrote the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 in This Side of Paradise, "grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken…" (180).

The writer Gertrude Stein defined an important group of American intellectuals when she told Ernest Hemingway in 1921, "You are all a lost generation." Stein was referring to the expatriate novelists and artists who had participated in the Great War, only to emerge from the conflict convinced that it was an exercise in futility. In their novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway pointed toward a philosophy now known as "existentialism"--which maintains that life has no transcendent purpose and that each individual must salvage personal meaning from the void. In the conclusion of The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald gave pointed expression to an existentialist outlook: "so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Primary Web Sites

NC Live – Go to the East Albemarle Library, password is BUCKHEAR

Digital History/Guided Readings: The Jazz Age: The American 1920s at

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=67

Hatteras Library

MLA Research Guidelines - http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/

Citation Maker: http://citationmachine.net/

Research Topics

All students must research the Overview of the 1920s and one of the following topics.

1.  The Post War Red Scare – Darryl Hill

2.  Post War Labor Tensions: HCL and Strikes – Nicole Naughton

3.  Race, Culture and the Harlem Renaissance - Blake Taft

4.  Nativism and the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti – Skylr Peele

5.  The Impact of Henry Ford on Consumer Economics – Cameron Whitaker

6.  Spectator Sports: Success and Scandal – Robbie Easley

7.  The Scopes Trial: Orthodoxy vs. Modernism – Foster Mattingly

8.  Lucky Lindy: The Mystique of Lindbergh – Maggie Easley

9.  “Back to Normalcy:” Warren G. Harding and Tea Pot Dome

10.  Jazz Age Slang: The Emergence of the Generation Gap – Anna Fletcher

11.  From Subtitles to Soundtracks: The Power of Cinema over American Culture – Lizeth Elizondo

12.  Ex-patriots and the Lost Generation: What did they reject and why? – Gerardo Martinez

13.  Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” Movement: What was the impact on American culture? – Victoria Gaskins

14.  The Rise of Advertising: Producing Consumers of Technology – Deborah Roughton

15.  Prohibition and Apathy: How did prohibition reduce respect for government? – Alana Harrison

Essay Requirements:

1.  The final paper will be 5 – 7 pages typed, double spaced.

2.  Please follow MLA formatting guidelines

3.  You need a minimum of 5 sources.

4.  Internet sites must meet prior approval from Ms. Mathews.

Stages

1.  15 note cards and working bibliography due Monday, Feb. 28

  1. The note cards should all be paraphrased.
  2. In the top right corner, write the source information – Author’s last name, title and page number.
  3. Assign a general topic to the subject of your notes in the top left corner.
  4. Do not take notes on common knowledge. Find data, evidence, facts, significant details. Remember common knowledge is any thing I can find in a general encyclopedia.

2.  Working Thesis – A one or two sentence claim for your essay is due Wednesday, Mar. 2.

3.  First draft – with a works cited list and in-text citations due Monday, Mar. 7

4.  Final draft – due Monday, Mar. 14

Presentations:

·  You will make a 15 minute minimum presentation of one of the previous topics.

·  Presentation must demonstrate a thorough knowledge of your topic. You must incorporate your research with your current understanding of the contents of the APE / APUSH courses. Mere reading from notes copied and pasted from the Internet will not suffice.

·  Presentation will have a visual component. Audio, video, or any graphic media to enhance your presentation will add to the overall effect for the audience.

·  You will submit a paper with in-text citations and a works cited page following MLA format. You must give credit to the author/source of every fact and idea you incorporate in your presentation, even information you have paraphrased.

·  You will take a cumulative test in APUSH on the content and corresponding reading from Berkin and primary sources.

·  Presentations will be made before Ms. Lynn Mathews and other invited guests.

Evaluation:

·  Student will be assessed on the development and defense of the thesis in presentation, historical accuracy, and creativity.

·  Student will be assessed on the written report, documentation and validity of research.

·  You will receive a rubric from your teacher prior to your presentation.

·  Students will complete evaluation forms following each presentation. This low impact writing will provide valuable feedback to your peers and will be collected by Ms. Mathews after each presentation.

·  Presenters should dress in professional attire or period costume if you so choose.

Due Date:

Presentations will begin March 16 and end March 18.