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DO NOW In the early 1900 most people spent their

free time/leisure time enjoying amusement parks, bicycling, tennis and spectator sports. How do we spent our free time today? 5lines

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December 5, 2011

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Learning Goals are the purpose of our lesson. As you advance in this course, the goals should become easier and easier to achieve. If you ever wonder why we are doing something in class, take a look at the learning goals and think about how our activity might help you achieve our goals.

Our goal is to give example of turn of the 20th century leisure and popular sports

Our goal is to analyze the spread of mass culture in the United States at the turn of the 20th century

TODAY WE WILL: Listen: Dawn of a

Mass Culture Notes Questions,

Comments, Concerns

Class Closing

DAWN OF A MASS CULTURE CHAPTER 8 SECTION 4 Use of machines allowed workers at the turn

of the century to do jobs faster. This led to a shorter work week and more leisure time….. SOOOO, what kinds of things did they do?

WRAP UP– “WHAT’S IT LIKE IN 1900?”1. (He brought innovations to the newspaper. He came up with the comics, the

sports section, women's news, and a large Sunday edition. Who was he?)_____. (William Randolph Hearst; Joseph Pulitzer; Alfred Nobel; Sun Yat Sin)

2. (It was characterized by gritty realism and no frills. This American style of art was led by a guy named Robert Henri, who had been taught by Thomas Eakins, who attempted to portray life as it really was. This art was known as -)_____. (Realism School; Ashcan School; Gritty School; Cynicism Movement)

3. (This was prevalent in the Southwestern U.S. It was a system whereby the poor worker, often a minority, would borrow money from his/her employer, and work off the debt, only the wage was not enough to pay the debt off - ever. This system sort of put people into slavery. It was called -)_____. (Tenement debt; Slumming; Debt Peonage; slavery; Debt Ownership)

4. (Based on Rounders! Modernized by Alexander Cartwright in 1845! 50 teams by 1850! First professional team in 1869! In its first championship, the Pilgrims beat the Pirates in 1903! What is it?)_____ (baseball; basketball;

football; LaCrosse; ice hockey; rugby)

8-4 WARM-UP

1. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

2. How do the leisure activities you choose to participate in have an impact on American culture (by the way… what does “culture” mean)?

3. How would you describe American culture today? 100 years ago?

CORNELL NOTESSection Notes

Topic (What am I taking notes on?): The Dawn of a Mass Culture

What I already know about this topic is…

New Vocabulary (to look up later):

Chapter # 8 Section #: 4

What kinds of things did we do during our leisure in the early 1900s?

Amusement Parks Bicycling Tennis Snack food became popular Professional Sports Newspapers became popular Vaudeville theatre

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

JOSEPH PULITZER

Owner of the New York World Newspaper

Introduced a large Sunday edition which included comics, sports, & women’s news.


William Randolph Hearst

Owned the New York Morning Journal & the San Francisco Examiner

Hearst tried to outdo Pulitzer by publishing exaggerated & made up stories.


DIME NOVELS Light fiction like “dime novels” became popular as more people read books


Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Novelist and humorist who wrote books that have become American classics: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn


PROMOTING FINE ARTS

By 1900, free circulating Public libraries numbered in the thousands

By 1900, most major cities had art galleries

In the early 20th century, the Ashcan School of American Art painted urban life


SHOPPING! As cities grew, shopping centers emerged.

DEPARTMENT STORES were a new type of store which offered a wide range of goods


Marshall Field of Chicago

America’s 1st department store

Field’s motto was “Give the lady what she wants”

Field also pioneered the “bargain basement” concept


F.W. WOOLWORTH

He started “five & dime stores”


ADVERTIZING BECOMES BIG

Companies filled magazines & newspapers with ads for their products.

Advertisers also placed their products on barns, houses, & billboards


MAIL ORDER CATALOGS

Late 1800’s, Montgomery Ward & Sears Roebuck introduced mail-order catalogs.

Brought department store items to those living outside the cities.

By 1910, about 10 million Americans shopped by mail.


Rural Free Delivery (RFD)

U.S. Post Office increased mail-order business by starting a RFD system.

This brought packages directly to every home.


CHAIN STORES STARTED IN THE LATE 1800’S

Chain stores are groups of stores owned by the same person.


SPECTATOR SPORTS

African-Americans form own baseball clubs

Boxing Baseball

Negro National League Negro American League


The Bicycle The bicycle was the point that helped woman’s rights activists finally achieve the rational dress movement, which liberated them from long skirts and corsets and other restricting garments. It seems that with the sensual ad campaigns and notions of equality the bicycle was much more heavily marketed toward woman than men.


Summary (this is what I read in my own words)

How can we say this all in one or two sentences in our own words?

Questions, Comments, or Concerns for the good of the cause (I still do not understand…, I wonder…):

WRAP UP 8-41. (Daniel Burnham/lakefront park system; Louis Sullivan/boxing;

Charles Taylor/airplane engine; Frederick Olmstead/urban planning; George Eastman/inexpensive camera; Wright Brothers/powered aircraft! Which name/technological advance pairing is inaccurate?)_____

2. ("No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.")_____. (W.E.B. Dubois; Booker T. Washington; Maya Angelou; Ida Wells)

3. Poll tax! Segregation laws! Jim Crow laws! These discriminatory terms and practices came from this political party -_____. (Democrats; Republicans; Whigs; Know-Nothings; Supremacy; Democratic Republicans)

4. (To summarize: How did American methods of selling goods change at the turn of the 20th century?)_____. (vertical teaming was used; urban marketing was used; advertising was used; tokens were used; horizontal teaming was used; nothing really changed)

LEARNING GOALS

WHAT DID WE LEARN TODAY?

HOW DOES THIS HELP US ACHIEVE OUR LEARNING GOALS?

ARE YOU READY TO GO? Clean-up your area

Follow classroom procedures for returning books, computers, and folders

Wait quietly to be dismissed

Push in your chair

Have your homework written, agenda out, and ready to be signed at the door

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