Curated OER
Giggle Water & Struggle Buggies
Here is a lesson that acquaints learners with the 1920s. They will use primary source documents to create original skits. Students choose a character from the 1920s, become that character, and then share what they have learned through...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: The Roaring Twenties
This lesson focuses on the Roaring Twenties, an era of great economic growth, widespread prosperity, and new technologies. This is era featured in The Great Gatsby; it began at the end of WWI and ended with the Stock Market crash in...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Roaring Twenties" by Mike Kubic
A learning module that begins with "The Roaring Twenties" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: You Decide: The Roaring Twenties?
Read about prohibition, prosperity, the role of the automobile and popular culture to decide if the 1920s were a roar or a big yawn. How would you describe the 1920s?
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits: F. Scott Fitzgerald
This brief biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald draws on his ability to realistically portray life during the "Jazz Age," a phrase coined by Fitzgerald. "F. Scott Fitzgerald Activities" offers related materials.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Twenties 1913 1929
How would you describe the 1920s? The decade was called the Roaring Twenties, the beginning of modern America. Take a look at the economic prosperity, prohibition, popular culture, and the invention of the automobile, then you decide, a...