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National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Factory PrimaryNational Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Factory Primary
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National Humanities Center
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9th - 10th
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1250L
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National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Factory

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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Factory. Presents art by Charles Sheeler and films from the Ford Motor Company in an examination of the Ford auto assembly plant on the Rouge River near Detroit.

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1920s, 1920s assembly line, 1920s automobile, 1920s factory, 1920s history, 1920s industrialization, auto assembly plant, industrial art, industrial landscape, 1920s america, charles sheeler, ford motor company, ford factory, model a ford, model a automobile, national humanities center, river rouge plant, industrial america, primary source

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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Common Core

RH.6-8.9

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