(1)To prepare for our study of The Great Gatsby, you will read the
information on the 1920's website - go to the junior links page for the
direct link. Make sure you take quality notes. Please read about the
following:
1. Herbert Hoover
2. Al Cappone
3. Sacco and Vanzetti case
4. Stock Market Crash
5. Scopes Monkey Trial
6. Automobile, Radio, Airplane
7. Alfred Stieglitz
8. Thomas Benton
9. Charles Sheeler
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. Ernest Hemingway
12. Carl Sandburg
13. Robert Frost
14. Langston Hughes (Harlem Renaissance)
15. Bessie Smith
16. Duke Ellington
17. Charlie Chaplin
18. Mahjongg
19. Freudianism
20. Fashion - Men's and Flapper
*You must click on the above topics to get a full description. Do not
merely
read the one or two line bio offered on the initial screen.
**You must go to The Great Gatsby icon on my webpage and find the link for
Fitzgerald's biography. Read and take notes.
**You must also know FLAPPER, THE BLACK SOX SCANDAL, and THE ST. VALENTINE'S
DAY MASSACRE. These will not be on the website; you'll have to search each
on your own.
Have fun.
