Lessons 13-15: Icons of the 1930s

Introduction

Important Icon  In this lesson, we will take a closer look at the icons of the 1930s. Important Icon

Focus Questions:

How can an individual/group change the culture of America? 

How did African-American or Black achievements change perceptions? 

How did famous African-Americans or Blacks influence others? 

How did cultural contributions help to shape the 1930’s?

Icons of the 1930s

For the next few lessons, you will take a closer look at the icons of the 1930s from the previous lesson: Duke Ellington, Jesse Owens, and Margaret Mitchell. Based on the information you have learned about these individuals and your own research through kid-safe online databases, you will research each person and create a trading card for each.

Please look at the information below for guidelines on this project. To keep up with what you have learned and what you will learn, create a note taking graphic organizer in your journal. As you research each icon, record your information in your graphic organizer. Refer to the rubric and image below to help you with the information you will need for this activity.

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Assignment

For this activity, you will create a trading card for all three icons. The trading cards need to be all in color and neat. Your trading cards can be made digitally like in Google Slides or on paper. Regardless of which format you choose to use, please upload your trading cards to the assignments page. If you choose to create the cards by hand, please take a picture or scan it into the assignments area. 

You will have the next few lessons to work on this project.

Go to the next page to complete the 1930s Icon Trading Cards assignment.  

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