Social Studies
Course: US History From 1877 to the Present
Unit 4: The Roaring Twenties
Unit 5: The Great Depression
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
Assessment
Designated Grading Period: 3rd Grading Period
Days to teach: Roaring Twenties – 7 Days
Great Depression 5 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
(6) History. The student understands significant events, social issues, and individuals of the 1920s.
(13) Geography. The student understands the causes and effects of migration and immigration on American society.
(16) Economics. The student understands significant economic developments between World War I and World War II.
(23) Citizenship. The student understands efforts to expand the democratic process.
(25) Culture. The student understands the relationship between the arts and the times during which they were created.
6 (A) analyze causes and effects
Unit 4 Specificity
How did society
Flappers
Timelines
of events and social issues such as
change in the
Nativism
Interactive Lecture:
immigration, Social Darwinism,
1920’s?
Red Scare
The Dark Side of the
eugenics, race relations, nativism,
How did Americans Prohibition
Twenties (Intolerance)
the Red Scare, Prohibition, and
show their fear of
Marcus Garvey
the changing role of women;
Communism after
18th Amendment
Demographics of the
WWI? Was this
Urbanization
Twenties
READINESS
6 (B) analyze the impact of
warranted?
Clarence Darrow
significant individuals such as
William Jennings
ELPS: 4F Graphic
Clarence Darrow, William
Bryan
Organizers
Jennings Bryan, Henry Ford,
Henry Ford
Glenn Curtiss, Marcus Garvey,
Charles Lindbergh
and Charles A. Lindbergh.
Glenn Curtiss
Ida Wells
SUPPORTING
13(A) analyze the causes and
Race relations
effects of changing demographic
eugenics
patterns resulting from migration
Deportation
within the United States,
including western expansion,
rural to urban, the Great
Migration, and the Rust Belt to
the Sun Belt; SUPPORTING
23(B) evaluate various means of
achieving equality of political
rights, including the 19th, 24th,
and 26th amendments and
congressional acts such as the
Revised May 2016
Unit 4 Specificity
What would be a
likely consequence
of a person
exercising
citizenship rights for
Suffrage
19th Amendment
Women's rights
American Indian
Citizenship Act of
Facebook Project
ELPS: 3H orally
narrate or describe
Resources
Google Drive Unit 4 Folder
Census documents:
Roaring 20s powerpoint
Roaring 20s graphic
organizer
Keen Talk activity from
History Alive 1920s
Google Drive Unit 4 Folder
Social Studies
Course: US History From 1877 to the Present
Unit 4: The Roaring Twenties
Unit 5: The Great Depression
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
Assessment
Designated Grading Period: 3rd Grading Period
Days to teach: Roaring Twenties – 7 Days
Great Depression 5 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
American Indian Citizenship Act
the first time?
1924
of 1924; SUPPORTING
25 (A) describe how the
In what ways did
Harlem Renaissance Radio Broadcast:
Unit 4 Specificity
characteristics and issues in U.S.
American culture
Tin Pan Alley
history have been reflected in
reflect the changes
ELPS: 3I Use oral
various genres of art, music, film,
of the Roaring
language formally
and literature; SUPPORTING
Twenties?
25 (B) describe both the positive
and negative impacts of
significant examples of cultural
movements in art, music, and
literature such as Tin Pan Alley,
the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat
Generation, rock and roll, the
Chicano Mural Movement, and
country and western music on
American society
SUPPORTING
16 (C) describe the effects of
Unit 4 Specificity
How did
Stock market
Interactive lecture:
political scandals, including
conservatism guide
speculation
Republican leadership
Teapot Dome… … on the views
politics in the
Teapot Dome
in the 1920’s
of U.S. citizens concerning trust
1920’s?
Scandal
in the federal government and its
Tariffs
Analyze political
leaders; READINESS
Entrepreneurship,
cartoons of major
16 (A) analyze causes of
Warren G Harding
issues: Teapot Dome,
economic growth and prosperity
Return to Normalcy elections, economy, etc.
in the 1920s, including Warren
Party Platforms
Harding's Return to Normalcy,
ELPS: 3E cooperative
reduced taxes, and increased
groups
production efficiencies;
READINESS
(2) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in U.S. history from 1877 to the present.
(12) Geography. The student understands the impact of geographic factors on major events
Revised May 2016
Resources
Roaring 20’s PDF
Sources for information on
1920’s culture:
1920’s PPT
History Alive: Twenties
Unit cartoon set
Social Studies
Course: US History From 1877 to the Present
Unit 4: The Roaring Twenties
Unit 5: The Great Depression
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
Assessment
Designated Grading Period: 3rd Grading Period
Days to teach: Roaring Twenties – 7 Days
Great Depression 5 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
(16) Economics. The student understands significant economic developments between World War I and World War II.
(25) Culture. The student understands the relationship between the arts and the times during which they were created.
2(A) identify the major
Unit 5 Specificity
What title best
1929
Radio Broadcast or
characteristics that define an
describes the events, Consumerism
Facebook Project
historical era; SUPPORTING
attitudes and
Boom economy
2 (B) identify the major eras in
policies of the era of Prosperity
ELPS: 2E Visual and
U.S. history from 1877 to the
the 1920’s?
contextual
present and describe their
How can the word
support2F Video
defining characteristics;
“great” be justified
4D Scanning
in describing the
3J Visuals
READINESS
2(C) apply absolute and relative
depression of the
3GPerspective
chronology through the
1930’s?
1E list/sort/label
sequencing of significant
3B Sentence Stem
individuals, events, and time
5C Word Knowledge
periods; SUPPORTING
1ACornell Notes
2(D) explain the significance of
4I Writing Scaffolds
the following years as turning
4B Daily Oral
points: 1929(the Great Depression
Language
begins); SUPPORTING
16(B) identify the causes of the
Unit 5 Specificity
What economic
Oct. 29, 1929
Interactive Lecture
Great Depression, including the
policies of the
Black Tuesday
ELP Strategies:
impact of tariffs on world trade,
1920’s lead to the
Great Crash
2F Video
stock market speculation, bank
depression of the
Business cycle
3J Visuals
failures, and the monetary policy
1930’s?
Great Depression
3GPerspective
of the Federal Reserve System;
What
Federal Reserve
1E list/sort/label
generalizations can
System
3B Sentence Stem
READINESS
16(C) analyze the effects of the
be made from the
Tariffs
5C Word Knowledge
Great Depression on the U.S.
given data on the
Speculation
1ACornell Notes
economy and society such as
effects of the Great
Monetary Policy
4I Writing Scaffolds
widespread unemployment and
Depression on
Margin
4B Daily Oral
deportation and repatriation of
society and the
Hoovervilles
Language
people of European and Mexican
economy?
Election of 1932
heritage and others;
Why did minorities
Dust Bowl
Revised May 2016
Resources
Google Drive 1930’s Folder
1920’s Magazine Project
Internet web quests:
History Alive lesson on:
“Economic Collapse”
“Analyzing Economic Data
from the Great Depression”
“The Victims of the Great
Depression”
History Alive lesson on:
“The Pain of a Failing
Economy”
“Graphing Economic Data
on the Great Depression”
“Impact of the Great
Social Studies
Course: US History From 1877 to the Present
Unit 4: The Roaring Twenties
Unit 5: The Great Depression
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
READINESS
25(A) describe how the
characteristics and issues in U.S.
history have been reflected in
various genres of art, music, film,
and literature; READINESS
12(A) analyze the impact of
physical and human geographic
factors on the Dust Bowl;
SUPPORTING
Revised May 2016
Unit 5 Specificity
Unit 5 Specificity
Assessment
often experience an
increase in
discrimination
during the Great
Depression?
Using visual and
written works,
describe the effects
of the Great
Depression on
specific groups of
Americans and how
these were shown in
the arts of the time.
How did physical
and human
geographic factors
impact the Dust
Bowl?
Designated Grading Period: 3rd Grading Period
Days to teach: Roaring Twenties – 7 Days
Great Depression 5 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
Bonus Army
Reconstruction
Finance Corp.
Deportation
Repatriation
Genre
Dust bowl
Resources
Depression”
ELP Strategies:
2F Video
3J Visuals
3GPerspective
4I Writing Scaffolds
4B Daily Oral
Language
American Experience: The
Jazz Age
Interactive Lecture
Video w/Discussion
ELP Strategies:
2F Video
4D Scanning
3J Visuals
3B Sentence Stem
4I Writing Scaffolds
4BDaily Oral Language
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