The Great Gatsby
When someone asks you what THE novel is that represents what America is all about, most people answer with this:
The Great Gatsby
This is what Prohibition was.
When the U.S. banned all alcohol.
Young women being free and dancing and such were called:
Flappers
Name one 1920s slang word:
Literally anything that you can call 1920s slang...
Do we EVER need to open or close the window or freak out over the concept of a bee?
No.
This book takes place in this time period and location
1920s and NYC/Long Island area
Will the idea of Prohibition be important in our book?
Yes (duh)
Name one invention that really took off in the 1920s
CARS or PLANES or CONSUMER GOODS LIKE STOVES, ELECTRICITY, etc
Name one of the terms used to describe the decade of the 1920s (exp the 1930s was called The Great Depression Era)
The Jazz Age OR The Roaring Twenties OR the Prohibition Era OR The Golden Era
This person is collecting a quote book.
This is the book's author
F Scott Fitzgerald
What can you predict happened during Prohibition with regards to alcohol?
People started making it illegally and still drank it!
How was the stock market doing for all of the 1920s (until 1929)
'Twas crazy good my bro
This is the type of house our book is set in (rich people).
Gatsby's mansions aka giant mansions on Long Island.
Lukas is unusually obsessed with this fictional character.
John Proctor
True or false: the great Gatsby is a person
True
This is a type of bar that was invented during Prohibition (1920s) and is really cool and secret and such.
A speakeasy
During the 1920s, Americans were able to gain a greater sense of national identity by sharing in the music, news, stories, and jokes they heard on this technological innovation that no one could live without.
The radio
This is the Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote. (Yes, it took hundreds of years of America being a thing until women could vote).
19th Amendment.
Name three people in this class who are good at drawing.
Any 3 of these: Jack, Maia, Jordan, August, Bryan, Logan?, Jordan OG
Describe what the cover of this book looks like.
Blue, gold, face floating in the sky, Coney Island underneath, things like that...
This is the Amendment to the Constitution that made Prohibition law.
18th Amendment.
This is a 1920s movement of African Americans mostly in NYC who made crazy beautiful art, poetry, etc
The Harlem Renaissance
This is the war that a lot of people in our book fought in. When they came back from this war, a lot of them were depressed and thought life was meaningless.
World War One
This is the bird that Mrs. Sangree horrifyingly described as...you know...itself off across the water when I was reading the final chapter of OM&M :(
Heron