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Socials 10

Tuesday, April 28th

  1. In the news! What are you posting about?!
  2. New - The Roaring Twenties
  3. Scrapbook Scavenger Hunt!

Cheaters Berries

Bull session Bees Knees

Dogs High Hat

Drugstore Cowboy Hotsy Totsy

Dumb Dora Splifficated

Flat tire Giggle water

Hard boiled Stuck on

Applesauce Joint

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Socials 10 - The Roaring 20’s

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The Slang Game

Choose THREE of the following slang words from the 1920’s and make up a definition for them. Teams who are close to the correct definition win points!

Cheaters Berries

Bull session Bees Knees

Dogs High Hat

Drugstore Cowboy Hotsy Totsy

Dumb Dora Splifficated

Flat tire Giggle water

Hard boiled Stuck on

Applesauce Joint

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The Dance Crazes of the 20s!

The Charleston!

The “Shimmy”

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Economy was booming!

New industries were coming to Canada

  • Newsprint
  • Oil
  • Gas
  • Hydro
  • Mining
  • Manufacturing

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Investing!

Other countries investing money into Canadian resources and industries

The U.S. was a major investor.

Stock market!

The stock market was rising, and more and more Canadians were taking part.

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Tariffs

What are tariffs?

A tariff is a tax on imports/exports.

Why were there tariffs?

Tariffs were applied to US imports to protect Canadian manufacturing.

They are supposed to generate revenue for the government and protect domestic industry.

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Winnipeg Falcons

A team of Icelandic-Canadian hockey players once rejected by their hometown league, won the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey in 1920.

Winnipeg Falcons - Heritage minute

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Edmonton Grads

James Naismith himself called them “the finest basketball team that ever stepped out on a floor.” When the Edmonton Grads walked onto the basketball court between the years 1915 and 1940.

In their 25 year history, the Grads played 522 official games, and recorded a record of 502 wins and 20 loses

Edmonton grads - Heritage minute (2nd)

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Movies

Most common form of entertainment

Reasonably priced tickets

Black and white, silent

1st colour scene was in 1925

  • Phantom of the Opera

1st “talkie” was in 1927; common by 1930

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Musicals

Included singing and classical ballet

Lyric, modern dance, English

Plot is usually controversial

  • Divorce
  • Race relations

1st musical was 1927 Showboat

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Cartoons

Used at the movies to warn that the feature was about to start

Gave you time to go to the snack bar

Any idea what cartoons they could be?

Plane Crazy - 1927

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Jazz!

Emerged in the early 1900s among African-American musicians in New Orleans

Blends West African, African-American, European, and military musical expression

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Aspects of Jazz

Some of the most common aspects of jazz are all in the way it’s sung.

This includes:

  • Swing beats
  • Call and response vocals
  • Improvisation

Can anyone name some artists of the 1920s?

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Duke Ellington

Louis Armstrong

Bix Beiderbecke

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On the other hand - Blues

  • Began appearing in the late 1900s and early 1910s.
  • Characterized by repeating chords
  • Blues focused on a twelve bar structure.
  • Often show the singers personal troubles and the daily racial problems
  • Some blues songs were also witty and comical.
  • Blues was almost exclusively played by black musicians and was only popular within the black community

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Mamie Smith

Ma Rainey

Bessie Smith

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Compare and Contrast: Jazz vs. Blues

Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong (1926)

https://youtu.be/ksmGt2U-xTE

Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith (1920)

https://youtu.be/qaz4Ziw_CfQ

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Canadiana Scrapbook

Use the Canadiana Scrapbooks to discover what life was like for Canadians during the 1920’s.

Work with a partner.

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Story of Us: Boom & Bust

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At the Mercy of our Neighbours

1:36:03- 1:42

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Tasks:

  1. Key Terms: start a list for this unit.
  2. Tariffs - imports
  3. Prohibition - exports
  4. Bootlegging

Next….Economic theories and the Winnipeg General Strike.