Learning Standards

Students will understand as a result of this lesson (Enduring Understanding):

The ideas and activities of individual people played a major role in the transformation of the United States during the 1920s.

Students will know as a result of this lesson (Virginia SOL Objectives and Curriculum):

SOL U SII.5 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the social, economic, and technological changes of the early twentieth century by

• explaining how developments in transportation (including the use of the automobile), communication, and rural electrification changed American life;

• describing the social changes that took place, including prohibition, and the Great Migration north;

• examining art, literature, and music from the 1920s and 1930s, emphasizing Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Georgia O’Keeffe and including the Harlem Renaissance.

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