Hi everyone and welcome back to my final blog post! As discussed in my prior post, my partner Erin and I will be gearing our lesson plan towards a 5^thgrade class and the topic that we will be focusing on is the Roaring 20’s. We are still planning on using the text, What Were the Roaring Twenties? by Michele Mortlock as our literature component within the lesson plan, feeling that it thoroughly sums up all the information we hope our students to learn throughout this unit. Since this lesson will be taught to an upper elementary level grade, we feel that it is appropriate to assign sections of the book to be read as homework, challenging our students to come prepared with some prior knowledge on the topic we will be introducing. 

We will still be focusing on Gardner’s visual and spatial intelligence. Since we want our students to mainly be learning through visual and hands on experiences, our lesson will be concluded with a group project. Prior to introducing the project, we will be presenting the lesson topic and content through the use of a PowerPoint presentation that will highlight key components discussed in What Were the Roaring Twenties?and the Roaring 20’s. The PowerPoint will include lots of images, videos, and interactive questions for the students, all about life during the 1920’s. 

Once the topic is fully introduced and the students have a broad understanding of life in the 1920’s in America, we will then introduce the project to our students. For the project Erin and I decided to combine our two ideas into one, having our students work in groups to make posters that represent a significant year during the 20’s. Each group will be given a year and will be responsible choosing the most significant event that took place that year and make a poster about the event. The groups will be giving multiple class times to work on and complete this project, all presenting their work to entire class on the day the assignment is due. The groups will present in order of their evens taking place, and afterward we will tape each poster together forming a timeline of major events from the 1920’s. This physical timeline is a great visual for the students to be able to see their work transform into a “bigger picture” moment and to expand their learning.

Overall the only step left for Erin and I to complete is to make our formal lesson plan and put together all the material that we are going to teach to the children. We feel that this is a great way to teach this lesson to our students because what better way is there to teach about a whole decade of time in our history than making a timeline of it! 

Annotated Bibliography

HQ, W., & Mortlock, M. (2018). What Were the Roaring Twenties?Penguin Workshop.

This source is the literature we will be using within our lesson plan like discussed in my blog posts. We will be using this book as assigned reading for the children to get a deeper understanding of the lesson we will be teaching. This is a very credible source saying that the book is published by HQ, a very well-known publisher for children’s literate. 

Roaring Twenties. (2018, August 21). Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties.

This source is a well-known history website that gives great information about the roaring 20’s. I feel that this a very reliable source since history.com has had a great credibility for American history for a long time now and has authors with great credentials. I feel that it I a great source to use to gathering information that we want to teach about in our lesson. 

Dumenil, L. (2007). The New Woman and the Politics of the 1920s. OAH Magazine of History, 21(3), 22–26. https://doi-org.sacredheart.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/maghis/21.3.22

This scholarly, peer reviewed source has lots of useful information when conducting research on the women of the 1920s. I feel that this is a very credible source due to its well written content that provides reliable facts on life during the 1920s.

Burton, W. L. (1990). Murder, Booze, and Sex: Three Perspectives on the Roaring Twenties. Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought, 31(3), 374–395. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.sacredheart.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=EIS15771063&site=eds-live&scope=site

This is another scholarly, peer reviewed source that I found to be very useful when reserching Prohibition during the 1920s. This source discussed exactly what took place when alcohol was banned in America in 1919 and talked a lot about Al Capone and his notorious smuggling crimes.