Monday, February 10, 2020

The Roaring 20s, Day 1 - Class Recap


A bridge to the next unit today! This is a photo I took in New Zealand in 2014.

Dear class,

Hello again! It was great to be with you all today as we wrapped up our last unit and moved on to the next one. Here's what happened in class today:

Learning Targets Addressed:
KNOWLEDGE ALT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.

Soundtrack: "Down Hearted Blues” by Bessie Smith. Selected for today because it is a famous 1920s song and Bessie Smith was an African-American woman. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 2/10/20:
News Brief - Rob
Tightrope
Roaring 20s
Air Travel

Homework: Read the blog! Next news brief: Kaden.

News Brief: Rob had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: NYTimes.com - Coronavirus Updates: China Reports Record in Daily Deaths as It Struggles to Return to Work. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.

Kaden was assigned to do the next news brief.

Today's Black History Month fact is that the Civil Rights Act was passed by the House of Representatives on this day in 1964.

As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):


Tightrope: Next, I did a book talk on "Tightrope: American Reaching for Hope" by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. I went with my wife to see the authors speak last week and thought the book very much related to our unit on the American Dream: Revisited that we just completed! If you are interested in reading the book, I will have a copy in class.

Roaring 20s: For our next unit, we are going to learn a bit more about what happened 100 years ago in the United States, right after World War I. To begin, I went through this PowerPoint with the class as students took Cornell notes (we will review these notes next class to add a summary and questions):


This was a time in America of a lot of changes, and also a lot of growth of the United States in many ways (which is why it's called the "Roaring" 1920s). We will continue to learn about this era in the classes to come!

Today's class ended on slide 19, on Marcus Garvey.

Air Travel: We did not get to this in class, but I'm eager to talk about it next time. See you then!

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