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Senior AP Summer Assignment
2022-23 Summer Packet
Senior AP: Literature and Composition
DUE: AUGUST 4
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Roaring Twenties- Station 5
Changing Role of Women
Read "Flappers"
In what ways did the role of women change during the 1920s? Describe the lifestyle of a woman in this time period.
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Roaring Twenties- Station 4
Prohibition and Crime
Read "Prohibition" and "Gangs and Violence"
What were the effects of Prohibition? Who was Al Capone, and what did he do?
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Roaring Twenties- Station 3
Economy and Consumerism
Read "A Great Time to be Rich," "A Good Time to be Middle Class," and "Rural America: Left Behind by Modernity"
Summarize the differences in lifestyles for the rich, middle class, and farmers.
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Roaring Twenties- Station 2
Station 2: Disillusionment and the Lost Generation
Look up the definition of disillusionment and read "The Lost Generation"
Why were people so disillusioned after the war? What was the Lost Generation? What are some of the common themes in the works of Lost Generation writers?
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Roaring Twenties- Station 1
Station 1: Modernism
Read the "What is American Literary Modernism?". "Modernism--Many Meanings," and "Make it New! Make it Strange!"
What was modernist literature like? What kind of societal change was happening?
S1 How to Read American Modernist Literature from Our New Reading List.pdf 715.3 KB (Last Modified on October 5, 2021)