Transcript Education, Popular Culture - San Leandro Unified School District

Day 81 Education, Popular
Culture
• Homework: 446-457
Schools
• From 1916-1926
Enrollment in high
school went from 1 to
4 million
• High Schools change
from college bound to
vocational and
industrial training
• Challenge: Immigrant
population
News and Radio
• Mass Circulation/
small newspapers
collapse
• Readers digest, Life
and Times
• Radio brings news as
it happens
1920’s Film
• Film Stars include:
Rudolph Valnintino,
Douglass Fairbanks
and Mary pickford
• Jazz Singer first
major film with Sound
New Heroes
• Charles Lindbergh flies over the
Atlantic. Receives Congressional
Medal of Honor.
• George Gershwin (use of Jazz)
• Georgia O'Keefe- Captured the
grandeur of New York ay beauty
Literature of the lost Generation
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (Great Gatsby and This
side of Paradise)
- Wealthy living hopelessly empty lives
• Ernest Hemingway (The Sun also rises)
• - Major critic of the glorification of War
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (Poet)
• Sinclair Lewis- used characters in Babbitt
to mock American materialism
Afternoon on a Hill
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!
Sun also Rises- Earnest
Hemmingway
• "It was like certain dinners I remember
from the war. There was much wine, an
ignored tension, and a feeling of things
coming that you could not prevent
happening. Under the wine I lost the
disgusted feeling and was happy. It
seemed they were all such nice people."
Sinclair Lewis- Babbitt
"Being a man given to oratory and high
principles, he enjoyed the sound of his
own vocabulary and the warmth of his own
virtue."
Sports
• Jack Dempsey v.
Tunney “The Fight of
the Century”
• Babe Ruth “The
Sultan of Swat”- hits
60 home runs
• Red Grange
(Chicago Bears)
• Gertrude Ederleswims the English
Channel
Summary Questions
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Who produced intensely colored paintings that
included the grandeur of New York?
Who’s career ended with his defeat by Gene Tunney?
Who made the first non stop solo flight across the
Atlantic?
Composer who merged traditional music with Jazz?
Who’s poems celebrated youth and life?
Who wrote the Great Gatsby and this side of
Paradise?
Which writer criticized war through books like the Sun
Also Rises
Who mocked American materialism in his book
Babbitt?