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__Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7__ Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:**Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.**  The Lost Generation was a term first used by author Gertrude Stein, it was used to described the American writers of the 1920s who "felt alienated from traditional American values and rejected mainstream society by leading hedonistic lives" (ABC-Clio). Later the term, the Lost Generation, began to refer to the generation involved in World War I, most of them born around 1900. "The World War I generation would be a more accurate name for it," (unknown, vii) a hand out we got from Ms. Buchholtz says. There was a huge difference in society before and after WWI, the people that came of age during the 1920s had "the feeling of having lived in two eras, almost on two different planets" (unknown, vii) . Another hand out that we got from Ms. Buchholtz said that the people of the 1920s were becoming "disillusioned with post World War I American values, which... had become materialistic and Puritanical" (II unknown). People wanted to live like characters such as Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. There was a drastic change in the way people lived before and after WWI, wants became needs - people were willing to waste money on unnecessary things, they became very materialistic. "World War I seemed to have destroyed the idea that if you acted virtuously, good things would happen" (Montgomery College). Montgomery College also writes that "many good, young men went to war and died, or returned home either physically or mentally wounded (for most both), and their faith in the moral guide posts that had earlier given them hope, were no longer valid... they were 'lost'" (Montgomery College). Even with the generation physically and mentally hurting the 1920s did have good things come out of it, like the "gasoline-powered engine [and] the use of electricity [which affected] the ways... Americans built and used their homes" (Salisbury, Joyce and Kersten, Andrew). But these advancements led to greed resulting in a shallow, materialistic America. The authors of the 1920s such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Dos Passos wrote about wealth in many of their books. Those books became very popular and influential in the average Americans life. People wanted to live like the people in these books but did not know where to start. It seemed like the lost generation did not know what to do with themselves after the war; the population had "a sense of moral loss or aimlessness" (Montgomery College).

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">"Lost Generation." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> 2012. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.

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<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Salisbury, Joyce and Andrew Kersten. "Technology in the United States, 1920-39." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Life through History //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">2012. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. []

<span style="background-color: #fff9e5; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">"The Lost Generation: American Writers of the 1920s." <span style="background-color: #fff9e5; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">Montgomerycollege.eduN.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2012. <http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hpolscrv/jbolhofer.html>. <span style="background-color: #fff9e5; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">Packet from English, no author or title (unknown) <span style="background-color: #fff9e5; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">The 1920s: The Lost Generation, handout from English, no author (II unknown)

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">__Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Lost Generation was very influential on the lives of many Americans. It affects of now in the 21st century because Fitzgerald wrote about the issue of women being abused and not treated equally to men in his book, which we can now look back on and realize that it was wrong and everyone deserves equal rights. But back then people didn't realize these major problems were wrong. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">After WWI people didn't know what to do with themselves, hence the name the Lost Generation (Howe, Neil and Strauss, William). Everyone in America was impacted by the war, it changed the country. Even though the country was in a lost state WWI led to lots of <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 24px;">technological <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> advancements and cultural blending across the country.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium;"> There was a national <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;">hegemonization <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">throughout the US because people were able to get the same information, and share different customs all over the US. Writers wrote about the lifestyles that everyone wanted to live and would work very hard to earn. But books were not the only thing influencing Americans, there was now nation wide advertising. Magazines, newspapers, and radio stations flourished with the help of advertisements (Batchelor, Bob). There were many ways that customs were spread across the country, one way being that Henry Ford made the Model T, an affordable car that made travel more accessible to the middle class (Batchelor, Bob). <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium;">With advertising and long distance travel now <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;">readily <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium;"> available, different customs were spread from state to state like food, the way people dressed, and music.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Batchelor, Bob. "Transportation in the 1920s." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> 2012. Web. 9 Feb. 2012. []

Batchelor, Bob. "Advertising in the 1920s." //Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas//. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2010. (Worksheet from history class)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Neil Howe and William Strauss " The New **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Generation **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> Gap," //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> Annals of American History. // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">< <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">[|http://www.america.eb.com/america/article?articleId=387734&query=**1920**+the+**lost**+**generation**] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">[Accessed February 10, 2012].

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;">1920s Advertisers - Missionaries of Modernity (Worksheet from class)

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; line-height: 24px;">Fitzgerald's <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> first book //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">, "This Side of Paradise //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; font-size: 16px;"> was considered a daring and emotionally honest account of the lives and values of many young people in an era of optimism and excess, glamour and decadence," (Harmon, Justin) it was a gripping book that people couldn't wait to get their hands on. And in his book The Great Gatsby, "the novel exposes the hollow values of the Jazz Age, with its economic and social corruptions. It also turns on its ear the particularly American myth of the self-made man who achieves success through his integrity and plain hard work" (Harmon, Justin). Even with these outrageous corrupt lives the characters live, people still wanted to be them. Americans wanted wealth and status, and even though that proved to be impossible they would still try. "It was a period in which great fortunes were made and the mood of the country was optimistic" (hendrick, Veronica).

<span style="color: #121917; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; text-align: left;">Fitzgerald, along with all of the other Lost Generation writers, was a great man in the long run. Back then books were not the most influential thing available to people, they were not the main source of where to get the latest trends or anything like that (Batchelor, Bob). But now we look back at his books and see how much of an impact he really made on society, even if only a few of his books gave him fame. He really captured all of the good and the bad of the 1920s. The corruption, greed, wealth, advancements in society, new freedoms gained, and much more. No one else would have been able to write about the 1920 the way Fitzgerald or any of these writers did.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Hendrick, Veronica C. "F. Scott Fitzgerald: //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">The Great Gatsby //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> (1925)." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. []

Batchelor, Bob. "Advertising in the 1920s." //Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas//. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2010. (Worksheet from history class)

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Harmon, Justin, et. al. "F. Scott Fitzgerald." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. []

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<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Rubric for all three tasks: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;"> Accurate power paragraph format with each paragraph citing evidence from three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement, internal citations, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement  <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum;  <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">✓ Complete the criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement.