Activity 8: Changes in Louisiana (GLEs: 30, 70, 77)
CC: Have students work in groups to create newspaper articles that reflect the era of the 1920's and focuses on the following elements: Culture-jazz, radio, movies. Women's suffrage-Nineteenth Amendment. Prohibition-Eighteenth Amendment. Political changes. Students can use MS Word or any other word processing software to write their newspaper articles.
Web Sites: The 1920s Experience http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/ 1920s Music http://www.bookrags.com/history/popculture/1920s-music-bbbb-02/ Film History of 1920s http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html Timeline: 1865 - 1927 http://www.louisianahistory.org/timelines/timeline4.htm World Book Online (Search terms - Woman Suffrage; Prohibition) http://www.louisianaschools.net/worldbook/ Women's Fight for the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm Nineteenth Amendment--Women's Suffrage Rightshttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt19.html Text of the Amendments (Literal Print)http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/conamt.html U.S. Constitution: Eighteenth Amendment http://www.historicaldocuments.com/18thAmendment.htm Eighteenth Amendment--Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt18.html http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march04/kkk031104.htm
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