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The Roar of the Twenties; The Crash of the Thirties Lesson PlanThe Roar of the Twenties; The Crash of the Thirties Lesson Plan
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The Roar of the Twenties; The Crash of the Thirties

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Eighth graders, after assuming identities of prominent figures from the 1920's and looking at slides and data from the era, relate, in diary form, the cultural, economic and political changes that happened in America between 1920 and 1939.

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