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Groovin' to Jazz

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Groovin' to Jazz

URL:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/groovin-jazz-ages-8-13

Content Source:

Smithsonian

Type:

Informational Material

Overview:

This informational link includes 15 audio recordings by jazz greats and introductions that discuss the relevance of the songs.

Content Standard(s):

Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 6
United States Studies: The Industrial Revolution to the Present

4 ) Identify cultural and economic developments in the United States from 1900 through the 1930s.

• Describing the impact of various writers, musicians, and artists on American culture during the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age

Examples: Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Wyeth, Frederic Remington, W. C. Handy, Erskine Hawkins, George Gershwin, Zora Neale Hurston (Alabama)

• Identifying contributions of turn-of-the-century inventors

Examples: George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Wilbur and Orville Wright (Alabama)

• Describing the emergence of the modern woman during the early 1900s

Examples: Amelia Earhart, Zelda Fitzgerald, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Washington, suffragettes, suffragists, flappers (Alabama)

• Identifying notable persons of the early 1900s

Examples: Babe Ruth, Charles A. Lindbergh, W. E. B. Du Bois, John T. Scopes (Alabama)

• Comparing results of the economic policies of the Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover Administrations

Examples: higher wages, increase in consumer goods, collapse of farm economy, extension of personal credit, stock market crash, Immigration Act of 1924

Unpacked Content

Strand: Economics, History, Civics and Government

Course Title: United States Studies: The Industrial Revolution to the Present

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Identify cultural developments in the US from 1900 through the 1930s by describing the impact of various writers, musicians, and artists on American culture during the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age.
Identify contributions of turn-of-the century inventors.
Describe the emergence of the modern woman.
Identifying notable persons of the early 1900s.
Compare results of various administrative economic policies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
suffragettes
suffragists
flappers
personal credit
stock market crash
Immigration Act of 1924

Knowledge:

Students know:

The cultural and economic developments of the early 1900s.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Characterize the impact of notable people and events that shape our world.
Compare multiple points of view to explain economic policies.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Major cultural and economic changes took place in the US during the early 1900's.

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Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.6.4- Identify at least one or more inventions and inventors of the late 1800s and early 1900s, including Thomas Edison (practical light bulb), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), George Washington Carver (uses for the peanut), Wright Brothers (airplane), and Henry Ford (affordable car); illustrate the cultural changes of the early 1900s presented by at least one or more individuals including, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Helen Keller, Babe Ruth, W. C. Handy, and Charles Lindbergh.
SS.A

Tags:

jazz, Louis Armstrong

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Author:

Ginger Boyd

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Groovin' to Jazz