Wednesday, February 26, 2020

The Roaring 20s, Day 6 - Class Recap


The Chicago Institute of Art. Students were encouraged today to use art in their 1920s advertisements!

Hi everyone,

Another strange week, as ACT Day yesterday changed the usual rhythm. As such, I made today a work day to finish the 1920s advertising assignment. Here's what happened in class today:

Learning Targets Addressed:
KNOWLEDGE ALT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.

Soundtrack: "No Woman, No Cry" by The Fugees. Selected for today due to the focus on women in 1920s advertising and we are continuing to listen to black artists for the soundtrack this month. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 2/26/20:
News Brief - Yoshi
Advertising Assignment
Work Time

Homework: Read the blog! Continue working on your advertising assignment - due next class! Next news brief: Reece.

News Brief: Yoshi had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: NPR.org - Coronavirus: More New Cases Are Now Reported Outside China Than Inside. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.

Reece was assigned to do the next news brief.

Today's Black History Month fact is that Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight boxing title on February 25th, 1964.

As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):


Advertising Activity: The activity that I introduced last class related to the Business of America notes is here:


This assignment is based on choosing a product from the last slide from this presentation:

Google Slides - The Business of America in the 1920s PowerPoint


Students were assigned a product in class to create an advertisement for. If you missed class, you can select a product from the last slide to focus on. Here's the list of what students selected in class:


Work Time: The rest of class was spent working on the advertising assignment, which is due at the start of next class on Friday. Please let me know if you have any questions - I am looking forward to seeing what you can come up with!

No comments:

Post a Comment

Please enter your comment. I will review the comments before posting them to the blog, so do not worry if yours does not pop up right away. Remember, do your best with spelling and grammar! :-)