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1920s Group 2 - Suzie Kim, Flora Kim, Jennifer Nam December 2nd, Thursday

Topics: 1. How did jazz and blues become popular nationwide? 2. Explain the growth of distinctively American art and literature from social realist to the "lost generation"

Social Realist / Lost Generation Keynote
 * Lesson plan **

Start the class by showing a short clip/video of music before jazz and jazz music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSdk44gWIE). Make the students compare and vote for which one they like better and introduce them into the topic of jazz and blues.
 * Part 1 **
 * 1. Hook**

a) Introduction to famous jazz/blues musicians along with brief 15 second audio of their songs (ex. King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, Duke Ellingon etc.) b) Talk about the "Race Records" which made a dramatic increase in the number of jazz recordings and gain of popularity during this period c) How jazz/blues influenced society and nationwide
 * 2. Keynote lecture on the impacts, history, and popularity of jazz and blues during the 1920s**

a) Identify differences between Jazz music and the music before jazz music b) Review over the impacts of jazz and blues c) Do a review game and give prize to winner :D
 * 3. Activity**


 * Part2 **

__Social realism__ a) What is social realism b) Art movements and notable artists during Social Realism - American Scene Painting - Regionalism - ex. Isabel Bishop, William Gropper, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jacob Lawrence, Allan Rohan Crite, Isaac Soyer, Elizabeth Terrell, Philip Evergood, Ben Shahn, Robert Minor c) Literature - ex. Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis, John W. DeForest, Joseph Kirkland, E.W. Howe, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, etc.
 * 1. Keynote Presentation**

__Lost generation__ a) What is “lost generation” b) Art movements and notable artists during Lost generation - modernist movement (George Luks, Charles W. Hawthorne) - abstract expressionism (Willem de Kooning) - surrealism & dadaism (Georgia O’Keeffe, Morgan Russell, Man Ray) - realism (Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Leon Kroll) - landscape (Aldro Thompson Hibbard, N.C. Wyeth) - Horace Pippin c) Literature - Examples of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Henry Miller, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald

a) Compare and Contrast b) Identify art works from different times and talk about them
 * 2. iMovie or Keynote Presentation**

a) Review session b) quiz? game?
 * 3. Activity**