If you are covering the Roaring Twenties, this bundle will help you integrate primary sources and multiple perspectives. This bundle includes 6 complete resources.
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1. Introductory Reading Passage
You'll find a 4-page magazine format article that will not only allow your students to practice reading with non-fiction text features, but is high interest and well-rounded.
The article covers the following content:
-What were the Roaring Twenties?
-Aftermath of WWI
-Henry Ford’s Model T
-Electricity
-Hair & Fashion
-Prohibition & Speakeasies
-Movie Theatres
-Jazz Music
-Harlem Renaissance
-Radio & Sports
-Slang Terms
-End of Roaring Twenties
2. Gallery Walk: Analyze City vs Rural America 
Your students will come away with an understanding that the Roaring Twenties were not exactly “roaring” for everyone. This gallery walk is set up for your students to visit three stations. They will view historical images to analyze city life for the upper/middle class, life for immigrants & life in Harlem, and life in rural America.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and this is a great way for your students to analyze primary source images.
This resource includes:
- Life in the City: 7 images
- Life for Minority Groups: 9 images
- Life in Rural America: 11 images
- Student Packet: Just print & staple!
- Exit Ticket: True/False
3. Fashion Analysis Stations with Primary Sources
In this activity, students analyze fashion during the 1920s by rotating through stations. Students view primary source images from multiple perspectives. All of the student recordings are completed within their flipbook. At the end of the activity, students use their data to answer an overarching question about fashion for different people during the Roaring Twenties.
This resource includes:
- Teacher Lesson Plan
- Men’s Fashion: 7 images
- Women’s Fashion: 7 images
- Flappers: 8 images
- Working Class: 8 images
- Flip Book: students record their findings
- Wrap Up Questions: final culminating questions
- Station Labels
4. Consumerism Reading Passage & Webquest
In this lesson, students learn about consumerism during the Roaring Twenties. This resource includes a 2-page reading passage with comprehension questions, as well as a WebQuest activity. Students will find images that depict consumerism in the 1920’s and today. The WebQuest is Google Compatible. Link is provided. This WebQuest interactive foldable is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks.
What’s included:
- Consumerism Reading Passage (2 pages)
- Comprehension Questions (answer key included)
- WebQuest Interactive Flaps & Instructions (Google Compatible)
- WebQuest Wrap Up Questions
- Teacher Lesson Plan (examples included)
5. Prohibition Primary Source Analysis
Students analyze 6 primary sources (photos, document, political cartoons) to better understand the temperance movement and the problems with Prohibition during the 1920s. Students move through 6 stations and record responses to analysis questions in their student booklet. This activity also works well as a daily entry task. This resource is engaging and interesting and serves as an easy-to-implement supplement to any study on the 18th Amendment.
This resource includes:
- Teacher Lesson Plan
- Student booklet (just print and staple!) with analysis questions
- 6 fascinating primary sources (photos, document, political cartoons)
- Answer Keys
6. Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance Webquest
This interactive lapbook is a great way for your students to organize information about the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance. This lapbook can be used with your own textbook, reading guides, or choice of websites. However, within this resource you will find a lesson plan with links to websites that I specifically use when teaching this content. A page of QR Code links that can be accessed using a QR reader (such as an app on a phone or tablet) is provided, but you can use this lapbook as a WebQuest as well. By recording key information in a lapbook style booklet, your students can refer back to their notes easily. This also serves as a wonderful study guide tool.
This resource includes:
- Lesson Plan
- Website links with pertinent information
- QR Code sheet with website links
- 3 page interactive lapbook
- Interactive lapbook pieces
- Recording Sheet (students can add additional musings, data, or information relevant to the topics)
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