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 * Unit 7: Roaring Twenties **** è ** ** Great Depression (2 weeks) ** [[image:Roaring_20s.jpg width="226" height="269" align="right" link="@http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_faragher_outofmany_4/2/691/177076.cw/index.html"]]

__Readings__: - Text: Chapters 23 & 24 - Handouts

__Themes__: 1. The Roaring Twenties as a wild weekend after a tough week 2. The price of ignoring international affairs (isolation) vs. the price of ignoring domestic affairs. 3. The beginning of modern Republican philosophy 4. Lincoln & the South, Wilson & Germany = the price of forgiveness weighed against the price of not forgiving 5. Conservative reactions during a time of social change 6. FDR changes the “free market” approach

__Content__: · Postwar prosperity · New culture of consumption · Republican Party dominance · Political & societal opposition to modern trends · Causes & consequences of the Great Depression · Franklin D. Roosevelt & his New Deals · New jobs and federal role in the West · Culture in the 1930s · Legacy of the New Deal reform

__Projects__: Students are given 5 free response questions from AP exams and must write well-constructed outlines for each, using the steps we have gone over in class.
 * Essay Outlines: **

__Free Response Essay__: 1. In what ways did economic conditions and developments in the arts and entertainment help create the reputation of the 1920’s as the Roaring Twenties?

__Document Based Question__: 1. Using your knowledge AND the documents provided write a well-reasoned essay in which you discuss the social, political, and economic impact of FDR's New Deal on American Society.

__Discussions__: 1. Is there a pattern of “cutting loose” and social change after wars? 2. How can the govt. balance foreign affairs and domestic affairs & what would that look like? 3. History saw the Republican & Democratic platforms flip once before. Are we seeing it again? 4. Was Wilson’s desire to forgive Germany of its war debts following Lincoln’s example of forgiving the South? Was it the right move according to history? 5. What is the price of keeping a country or people in a state of humiliation? 6. When is it good to go back to traditional values, and when isn’t it? 7. Did FDR prove the government should help regulate the nation’s economy or just the opposite?

__Movies__: **[|The Untouchables]** **– A fed. agent & his men try to take out Al Capone during Prohibition.**
 * [|The Road to Perdition]**- A hit man’s son witnesses what his father does for a living, & they must go into hiding to save him.
 * [|Cinderella Man] ** **- The true story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s**