Year in Review

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Teacher:
Grade:
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Farmington High School
Mr. Brown
10th History
Year in Review: 1920-1940

Assignment Information:
This project may be done alone or in a group of up to three people. It will be your job to portray the year you have drawn through
pictures, artifacts, drawings, old newspapers, music, newsreels, etc. It may be presented by making a scrap book and presenting lit to the class, a poster board presentation to the class, or by videotape presented to the class. This project will be worth 100 points. You have three weeks to work on this project.
Topics that MUST be covered:
Politics and government
Economics
Entertainment
Sports
Literature
Every day life
Include all of the following in each category:
Your Family
Farmington High School
Farmington or Farmington Township
State of Michigan
United States
World Affairs

Our Print Resources:
[FH = Farmington Hills] [FA = Farmington] [REF = Reference Collection]

Farmington: A Pictorial History	REF 977.438 & circulating	FA & FH
Farmington Observer, 1909-1974 MICROFILM	See Librarian	Only at Farmington Branch!
New York Times 1851-Present Year	See Librarian	Only at Hills Branch!
History of Fascism	320.5 P	FA
1929: The Year of the Great Crash	338.54 K	FH
Florence Harding: The First Lady	Biography Harding	FA
Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding	Biography Harding and 973.914 R	FA & FH
Anxious Decades: Amerca in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941	973.91 P	FH
FDR the New Deal Years, 1933-1937	Biography Roosevelt	FH
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny	Biography Roosevelt	FH
Great Depression:American in the 1930s	973.917 W	FA
Promised Land: The Great Black Migration	973 L	FA & FH
Hollywood 1930s	791.43 L	FH
Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s	305.4 W	FH
Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930s	782.8 G	FH
Songs of the 1930s	784.5 S	FA
Think Back on Us: A Comtemporary Chronicle of the 1930s	810.9 C	FA
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s	978 W	FA
Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People	784.4 L	FH
GreatDay Coming: Memoir of the 1930s	335.43 D	FH
Great Depression: America in the 1930s	973.917 W	FA & FH
Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s	746.92 H	FA
Famous Comedy Stars from the 1930s and 1940s	Audiocassette--Shows	FH
Fashions of a Decade: the 1930s	391.009 C	FA & FH
Ernie's America: The Best of Ernie Pyle's American Dispatches	Biography Pyle	FA
Songs of the 1920s	784.5 S	FA & FH
American Heritage History of the 1920s and 1930s	973.91 A	FA & FH
America and the Jazz Age: A History of the 1920s	973.914 B	FA
Women of the Klan: Rascism and Gender in the 1920s	322.42 B	FH
Setting a Course: American Women in the 1920s	305.409 B	FH
Chronicle of the 20th Century	909.82	FA & FH
Chronicle of America	REF 973	FA & FH
This Fabulous Century 1920-1930	REF 917.3 T & circulating	FA & FH
This Fabulous Century 1930-1940	REF 917.3 T & circulating	FA & FH

Web Resources

This Day in History Look at history of a specific decade

American Memory Search the historical collection of the National Digital Library from the Library of Congress

Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web

National Historic Landmarks in Michigan

Michigan History from the Michigan Electronic Library

Michigan History Magazine

Presidents of the United States (POTUS)

Social Security Administration History

Swinging Through Time: The Graystone Museum and the Story of Detroit Jazz

Women Win the Vote

World History Archives

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