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Group Norms
You can’t be what you can’t see.
AGENDA
Ten Chronological Units
EACH UNIT INCLUDES…
RESOURCES: DOCUMENTS
LIFE STORIES
CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS
STEM INTEGRATION RESOURCES
ART ACTIVITIES
CLASSROOM-READY VIDEOS
THE JAZZ AGE
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
The Jazz Age
Group Visual Inquiry Activity
Young women at outdoor sports event.
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
OBSERVATIONS
INTERPRETATIONS
INFERENCES
The Jazz Age
Small Group Visual Inquiry Activity
Note Tracker
“Women! The Eyes of Texas are Upon You”
Broadside – “Women! The Eyes of Texas are Upon You,” ca. 1915-1918. Jane Y. McCallum Papers [AR.E.004] Austin History Center, Austin Public Library. University of Texas.
Proposing an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution
“Proposing an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution,” December 13, 1923, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 – 2015 Series. National Archives and Records Administration.
Metlakatlan Indian flappers
Keystone View Company, Metlakatla Indian flappers, Alaska. Feb. 3, 1926. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. [LC-DIG-stereo-1s10109]
Mexican American man and two women
Mexican American man and two women, April 11, 1925. Shades of LA Collection/Los Angeles Public Library.
The Petting Green
John Held, Jr., “The Petting Green”, Life magazine, March 3, 1927. New-York Historical Society Library.
Use of Time by Oregon Farm Homemakers
Maud Wilson, Use of time by Oregon farm homemakers, Oregon State Agricultural College, 1929. U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Family Just Arrived in Chicago from the rural South
Chicago Commission on Race Relations, A Negro Family Just Arrived in Chicago from the rural South, 1922. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library.
America for Americans: Creed of Klanswomen
Women of the Ku Klux Klan, America for Americans: creed of Klanswomen / as interpreted by the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, [192-?]. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Unidentified Woman With Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
Unidentified Woman With Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, 1927. Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Sheet Music Cover of “Oh Daddy Blues”
Clarence Williams Music Publishing, Sheet Music Cover of “Oh Daddy Blues”, 1923. The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Carl Reeve & textile strikers from Gastonia testify before the Senate
Carl Reeve textile strike leader (center) & textile strikers from Gastonia testify before the Senate in 1929, Gastonia, N.C., 1929. Millican Pictorial History Museum.
Anna May Wong Identification Card
Anna May Wong Identification Card, August 1924. National Archives and Records Administration, San Francisco.
Lillian Cannon offering her best wishes to Gertrude Ederle
Lillian Cannon, of Baltimore, Md., offering her best wishes to Gertrude Ederle, as she starts out from Cape Griz Nez, France, on her successful attempt to swim the English Channel, 1926. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Underwood & Underwood, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, undated. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
The Jazz Age
Exploring the WAMS Site
The Jazz Age
Small Group Visual Inquiry Game
Image Cards
Question Cards
Notes Tracker
The Jazz Age
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
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