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Jazz

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Jazz

URL:

https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/jazz/sgwzUnzyLUcTCu4G#r

Content Source:

Smithsonian

Type:

Informational Material

Overview:

This collection includes videos, photographs, and sheet music about jazz. Students can use the collection to explore the history of jazz in America.

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.

Alabama Archives Resources:

Click below to access all Alabama Archives resources aligned to this standard.

Alabama Archive Records

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

Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 11
United States History II: The Industrial Revolution to the Present

5 ) Evaluate the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Jazz Age, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald. (Alabama) [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.d., A.1.f., A.1.i., A.1.j., A.1.k.]

• Analyzing radio, cinema, and print media for their impact on the creation of mass culture

• Analyzing works of major American artists and writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and H. L. Mencken, to characterize the era of the 1920s

• Determining the relationship between technological innovations and the creation of increased leisure time

Unpacked Content

Strand: Economics, Geography, History, Civics and Government

Course Title: United States History II: The Industrial Revolution to the Present

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Evaluate the short- and long-term impacts of social changes and the influence of prominent figures in the United States from WWI through the 1920s.

Teacher Vocabulary:

prohibition
Nineteenth Amendment
Scopes trial
Ku Klux Klan
Red Scare
Harlem Renaissance
mass culture

Knowledge:

Students know:

The causes, effects, and impact of social and political events in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Prohibition, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the *Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, and the Jazz Age.
The impact of influential individuals on social, political, and economic realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
The impact of media on social and political realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920.
The impact of major works of American artists and writers from World War I through the 1920, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and H.L. Mencken.
The importance of technological innovations through the 1920s and the impact these had on social, economic, political, and individual realities in the United States.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Explain social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the United States during specific historical periods and related to specific historical events.
Describe the influence of specific individuals and groups on the United States during specific historical periods into modern times.
Analyze the impact of technical innovations and changing media on American social and political realities.
Determine central ideas of primary and secondary sources.
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

There were significant impacts of the social changes and the influence of prominent figures in the United States from WWI through the 1920s.

Alabama Archives Resources:

Click below to access all Alabama Archives resources aligned to this standard.

Alabama Archive Records

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.11.5- Identify key social changes that occurred after World War I.
SS.AAS.11.5a - Identify notable people of the 1920s including Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Wyeth, Frederick Remington, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Henry Ford, W.C. Handy, Zora Neale Hurston, and Al Capone.

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Ginger Boyd

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