Georgia SS5H2.b
The Standard
Describe the cultural developments and individual contributions in the 1920s of the Jazz Age (Louis Armstrong), the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes), baseball (Babe Ruth), the automobile (Henry Ford), and transatlantic flight (Charles Lindbergh).
Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Describe U.S. involvement in World War I and post-World War I America.
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Babe Ruth, Henry Ford, and Charles Lindbergh to major changes in 1920s culture. They explain how music, literature, sports, cars, and aviation shaped daily life and popular culture.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately match each person to a contribution and explain its wider impact. They use details such as jazz recordings, Harlem poetry, baseball fame, assembly-line cars, and solo transatlantic flight.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Henry Ford invented the automobile or that Charles Lindbergh made the first flight of any kind. They may also treat the Harlem Renaissance as one event rather than a broader Black cultural movement.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose two people and write each person’s contribution, then explain one way each contribution changed American culture or daily life.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups photo, name, contribution, and impact cards to match, then place each completed set on a classroom 1920s timeline.
Write a short response to this prompt: Which person most changed everyday American life in the 1920s, and what evidence supports your choice?
Play a five-person clue game where teams identify the person, contribution, and cultural impact from three teacher-read clues.
Students find a modern musician, writer, athlete, carmaker, or pilot and create a comparison chart with one featured 1920s figure.
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