https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr Made with charm en-us 2019-03-08 17:37:32 UTC 2025-11-16 07:51:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 815344 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405293 Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who set many flying records and championed the advancement of women in aviation. She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. During a flight to circumnavigate the globe, Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in July 1937. Her plane wreckage was never found, and she was officially declared lost at sea. Her disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.]]> 2019-03-08 17:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405293 815344 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405498
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial. It was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act. Which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1429 in 2018),

]]> 2019-03-08 17:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405498 815344 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405631 The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. As a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century. And the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s. The period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art.]]> 2019-03-08 17:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405631 815344 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405808 A powerful African American leader during the 1920s. Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated a mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Garvey was convicted of fraud in 1923. And was deported to Jamaica in 1927. While the movement won a substantial following, the UNIA collapsed without Garvey's leadership.]]> 2019-03-08 17:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405808 815344 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405884  Ex-patriot writers who left the United States to take part in the literary culture of cities such as Paris and London during the 1920s. This group, including Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Post war writers that left a sense of dislocation and alienation. They felt the real America had been lost or distorted and questioned American pop culture. The lost generation refers to a group of sophisticated American authors during the 1920s (some moved to Paris) and wrote literature that expressed their discontent for US nationalism, materialism, and imperialism. Their literature was greatly influenced by WW1.]]> 2019-03-08 17:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/339405884 528408_1 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/3344268882 2025-02-26 21:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/m5r6t6jkbdmr/wish/3344268882