THE ROARING TWENTIES: FROM PROSPERITY TO CRISIS.
This unit is aimed for students of 4th ESO: During this course in the history subject is carried out a development of the contemporary history (XVIII century - XXI century).
INTRODUCTION:
The 1920s were a great explosion of creativity. It is a new way of understanding art, music, literature, even a new language, cinematic. It is a stage that I fall in love A time when it seemed that everything was possible, of excesses but also of changes and freedom .A short time of happiness between the horror and the barbarism of the First World War and the crack of the 29.
After the First World War, the economic revival started in the United States provokes a climate of euphoria and illusion worldwide, a hedonistic feeling. People feel like having fun as ever and enjoying. There is a blind trust in America, the paradigm of Freedoms and well-being, the American model of life is extended all over the world.
Consumption, encouraged by advertising, seduced Europeans, is no longer consumed by necessity, but for pleasure and the United States the provider of almost everything. He invested in energy and in resources and very bright minds innovated in technology.
They are years of light and shadows, and of course this optimism was typical of the middle and upper classes of the wealthiest sectors. Prosperity was poorly distributed and war had impoverished Europe.
It sounds jazz, boogie-boogie, charleston and foxtrot, a joyful and festive music that pretends to proclaim to the four winds the joy of living. The frivolous one occupies a foreground and it contagia. All the world went to Broadway to enjoy of the musicals, the cinema begins to take off. The life "apparently" was a party. In speakeasy and in the clubs one drank alcohol defying to the Dry Law that was in full force and the mafia took control of the streets.
Josephine Baker an unmistakable voice of this time.
The world and society have changed and women were the first to experience these changes. Gradually they rebelled against that ideal of woman mother and wife, wanted to separate themselves from traditional values and customs and claim their intellectual role. They had to get that Let them be treated as mentally inferior beings.
The main issue: At the end of the 1920s , a series of problems in the United States causes a major economic crisis, known as the Great Depression . This crisis lasted until the end of the 1930s and brought an end to the prosperous, consumer lifestyle of the previous decade.
Learning outcomes:
1.- Distinguish and identify the social, political, economic and cultural consequences of World War I.
2. Identify the conflicts and changes that occurred in the world between 1914 and 1939.
3.- Know the peace treaties and describe the new map of Europe configured as a consequence of World War I.
4. To verify the evolution of the economy in the inter-war period. The European and USA economic boom
5.- Describe "The Roaring Twenties" : Times of social and cultural changes. Fashion, different music styles and consumption.
6.-Know about The new woman.
7.- Identify the new dances . The new characters: Singers and intellectuals.
8.- Recognize the Dry Law.
9.-. Identify what happened on the New York Stock Exchange as a stock market Crack in 1929:
10.- Recognize the Crack Consequences as The Great Depression: 1929-1932
11.- Recognize the economic consequences of the crack in Europe
12.- Understand the causes of the rise of totalitarianism in Europe
13.- Know the basic characteristics of its main manifestations: fascism and Nazism.
14.- Identify new american economic theories as a search for solutions.
15.- Appreciate the culture and art in the inter-war period . The Avant-Garde movement Knowing the evolution and the most significant artists of the movement.
Activities:
Listening and watching videos,
Reading texts and news reports, magazines, newspaper.
Answer the questions, Write essays in order to Comment a photographs , pictures of the time, pictures
Podscat ; simulating one journalist interview in a night club with jazz music and charleston dance
Podscat simulating one journalist interview in a pub of Munich
Fashion speech of that age , in order to coment styles and fashion parades , comparing the man and woman apparience with the past.
Speaking : art commentary : New artistic manifestations avant garde description of a masterpiece about painting, sculpture and the new schools of architecture .
Game: PAY ATTENTION , DON´T GET LOST AND PASS BY THE LINE
Speech with concepts : Politic, society , culture, economy.
HOW TO PLAY?
Choice the topic that you prefer to talk to . There are somes groups . You have six minutes between all the groups. When you speech you must respect the following rules, taking account into three important details: Repetition / Hesitation / Deviation.
Per group you have your turn in order once for each. When you are talking if you make a mistake concerning to the last three details, one colleague of the other group, can interrupt your speech, showing up your accurate fault and wether it is Repetition ,Hesitation or Deviation. The teacher would be the referee and he or she must decide to that the interruption has been correct or not.
The time left is shared with the rest of the groups. The winner should be the group get pass by the line of the six minutes.
Sessions
First: The unit will begin with an introduction on the consequences of World War I. It will be tried that the students can see the differences between living in the USA and living in Europe. Continuing with the location on America , social, economic, cultural and political explanation.
Video about twenties in America https://youtu.be/684n8FO68LU.
Power Point:
Second: We will begin to see the society of the moment, the American consumption and the effects that it has in the life of the woman. The Cars and its social effect. The music, the dance, the art and the mass shows. The dry law and Al Capone.
Video: https://youtu.be/5ZWvlIi4zQs.
http://www.iesalbayzin.org/descargas/pptbelen/1920sEurope.ppt
http://www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536
Third: In this session we will focus on the Great Depression, What it happens, the consequences and solutions: New Deal.
Video: https://youtu.be/nyAZGqFtVjw
PowerPoint:
http://www.iesalbayzin.org/descargas/pptbelen/lifeduringdepression.ppt
Forth: In this session we will focus on the European field and how the American crisis is exported to Europe, what happened in countries like Italy and Germany the rise of fascism and Nazism.
Video https://youtu.be/4VtU5xounH0
Quiz: https://quizlet.com/77414247/chapter-28-the-rise-of-totalitarianism-section-5-flash-cards/
Video: https://youtu.be/wqEr22K5gSY
Fifth: Will be a practical session based on exercises. Crosswords, questions to answer, and postcat exposure, based on student work : to be journalist. Report and criticism of that time.
Sixth: In this last session we will continue with the postcats.
We will see some part of film about the rise of totalitarianism,the well-known film is ¨ the reign of evil ¨ It´s absoutly recommended, it reflects the German atmosphere very well of the time, the paramilitary groups and the personage of Hitler.
Conclusion. I would like to emphasize that this unit is pretty attractive for the students, they come close, understanding and share the most issues, such as fashion, music and so-called, mass movements. The last part of the unit to be a previous step of the Second World War, they analyze it, in many times are surprised how these characters have caused these terrible situations in the world
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bya5QnS50HhVZDFmLUx6QU5KM0U
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