Boom to Bust:
from the Jazz Age to the Depression Years
The Twenties and Thirties 
How did the 20's and 30's affect Americans?

JOURNAL-SCRAPBOOK
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 One of the ways in which you will demonstrate the knowledge that you have gained during our unit on the nineteen twenties and thirties is to create journal-scrapbook as it might have been kept by a person from this era. Your journal-scrapbook will also provide an opportunity for you to provide your unique, comprehensive answer to the essential question, How did the 20ís and 30ís affect Americans? 

The first half of your journal-scrapbook (the twenties) will be completed before the end of the fall semester. The second half (the thirties) will be constructed during the first few weeks of the spring semester.

To create your journal-scrapbook:

1. Create a character who is a teenager in 1919 and who will grow older with the decades.

2. Participate in all the class activities of the unit, including films, slides, tapes, lectures, readings and internet research..

3. Do additional research, including one or both of the following textbooks:

  • Boyer, Paul and Sterling Stuckey. The American Nation in the 20th Century. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1998. [Twenties: Chapters 11 and 12]
  • Jordan, Winthrop D., Miriam Greenblatt and John S. Bowes. The Americans: A History. Evanston, IL: McDougal, Littell & Company, 1991. [Twenties: Chapters 24 and 25]
4.  Think about peopleís reactions and how they were affected. Your character will respond to the events that you learn about and you will collect and create artifacts to put in your journal scrapbook.

5.  Decide what to include and what to omit in putting together your characterís journal-scrapbook on the 20ís and 30ís, and why.  You will include:

  • an introductory journal entry identifying the author (the fictitious character created by you) and stating the purpose of the journal-scrapbook
  • additional journal entries reflecting on and reacting to events of the times
  • artifacts of the times, collected and created by you. These could include pictures, articles, letters, literature, art, advertisements, headlines, objects,etc. 
  • captions which describe the source and significance of each artifact
  • a works cited list 
  • a front and back cover which show a connection to the times
6.  Present your journal-scrapbook to a group of your peers for sharing and review.