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This site is a resource for anyone looking to learn about the 1930s in a fun and interesting way. Whether you're a teacher, student, or just interested in the thirties, this site is awesome.
It's a collection of activities and resources that you can pick and choose from for your lesson, class or event. You could use a single activity to spice up a lesson, or throw a 30's swing party, with dance lessons, makeup tutorials, food and movies classics.
I don't have many of my own essays on this site, but I do have links to great resources I have found thatyou can use to supplement the activities if you choose.
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The Golden Age of Radio - 1930s Media Radio's Forgotten Years
The radio was the television of the 20s, 30s and 40s. By the 30s, radio was in full swing - music, stories, news, etc.
When listening to these, you might want to have food for people to munch while they listen.
When I was a little girl, I listened to old recordings of a radio show called "Let's Pretend", a show where they performed two stories (and it was chock-full of Cream of Wheat ads). Since this is the only radio show i can vouch for, I'd suggest listening to them for a taste of children's radio. If you're teaching, then I think young kids might like to listen to the whole show, whereas if you're teaching older students you may just want to have them listen to clips. I mean, ask them - maybe they're interested.
Wikipedia's article on Let's Pretend
You can listen a sample episode here: http://www.otrcat.com/lets-pretend-p-1497.html
This one is AWESOME, especially for older students: Lux Theater 02:55 Death Takes A Holiday
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http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz29818622233b8.html http://www.angelfire.com/retro/lisawebworld/30slifestyle.html Newspaper: http://www.footnote.com/image/#39083763
Listen to Let's Pretend Make shampoo from http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/lessons/pollyjohnson031807/pamphlet.pdf Learn slang: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma04/hess/slang/slangsplash.html Maybe crossword puzzle slang?
No-bake cookies
Food historians tell us unbaked confections composed of nuts, dried fruit, seeds and sweeteners were made by ancient Middle eastern cooks. "No bake" candies, as we Americans know them today, surfaced in cookbooks published during the Great Depression. Like their ancient counterparts, contemporary "No Bakes" contain dried/desiccated fruit, nuts, and/or seeds glued together with a sugar (honey, Karo) or fat (peanut butter, butter, margarine). No bake cookies (generally pressed into a pan and cut in squares/bars) descend from the same tradition. These recipes appear in the 1950s. The primary difference between bake and no bake' recipes (besides the obvious oven time, of course!) is the "no bakes" do not contain eggs or flour. They are not intended to rise.
A brief survey of American "no bake" recipes through time
[1936] "Date Balls. Stone: 1 pound dates, or use 1/2 pound seeded dates Put them through a food chopper with: 1 cup chopped pecan meats Add: 1/4 teaspoon salt Shape the candy into tiny balls. Roll them in: Powdered sugar."
"Persian Balls. Remove the seeds from: 1 pound dates, or use 1/2 pound seeded dates Cut the stems from 1 pound dried figs Put these ingredients thorugh the coarsest cutter of a meat grinder with: 1 pound seeded raisins, 1 pound pecan meats, 1/3 pound crystallized ginger Shape these ingredients into balls. Roll them in: Powdered sugar. ---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis IN] 1936 (p. 543) -http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html#1930s
Kid's lunches: http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodschools.html#30slunch http://www.bhg.com/recipes/1930s/
30s makeup: http://www.ehow.com/how_2341753_apply-1930s-makeup.html
learn the basic for swing! http://www.mixedpickles.org/jazzdance.html
Books: http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/sp200207/literature.asp Somewhere around the Corner, by Jackie French Great Gatsby
Sita Harker · Mon Dec 27, 2010 @ 12:51am · 0 Comments |
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