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Teaching The Roaring Twenties: An overview

The Roaring Twenties: An overview

With all of these problems, people were ready to hear a message of calm and “normalcy,” but the 1920s would be anything but “normal.” We remember that decade as a time of great change in American society.

American Yawp
Stanford University Press

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Is "return to normalcy" or "roaring twenties" a better descriptor for this important decade?
STANDARDS:
RH.2 - Main Ideas

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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