Subject: American History (1877-present)
Grade : 11th
Florida State Standard: SS.912.A.5.6 analyzes the effects of the changing social, political, and economic conditions of the Roaring Twenties.
Lesson 4: The 1920’s Woman
Objectives:
1) Students will demonstrate the changing social, political and economic conditions of the
Roaring Twenties through individually setting up a facebook page on poster board and
posting messages that reflect the time.
Materials/Resources:
Computer, projector,printer, poster board, variety of magic markers, picture of 1920’s woman that they’re presenting on PowerPoint.
Activities: Facebook Poster Project
This is a fun activity that promotes teamwork and cooperation. Teacher should closely monitor LD and ESL students as they may need to ask how to spell a particular word. Also, they might be more comfortable being paired up with someone and do poster together. An extension for gifted/high ability students would be for them to create a real profile on Facebook using 1920's woman's real name and scanned in picture.
1. Facebook Poster Project
-Project a Facebook Profile from internet onto screen as an example.
-Students will begin planning and drawing out they’re Facebook page profile on their posterboard, using a printed picture of their 1920’s woman.
2. Students can come up with creative profile names in addition to real name of woman.
3. Students finished with their posters may approach someone and write something on their wall
and that person can in turn write back. Students should do no more than 2 posts per classmate
so that they can make it around the room and interact with as many classmates as possible.
4. Students should talk as if they are “back in the day” and bring up current events, social functions,
fashions, causes they’re working on, what they’re doing at work if they work. Just get creative!
5. After the posters are filled up with posts, they will be displayed in the classroom.
Assessment: Teacher observation and Rubric for following directions and completion of items.
