Day 3 -- What You Need to Do For Today's Presentation

Today I would like your team to imagine that you are writing a five-page paper on your topic for the day.  As you have done in previous days, you will present your argument and the evidence that supports it in a Prezi. But in addition, I would like to include the following:

1) a clear, explicit statement of your thesis

2) a first well- written paragraph that introduces your thesis and gives readers an overview of what you would say in the paper.

Include the thesis and the introductory paragraph in your Prezi, and we will critique it afterwards.

Question 1

How did the coming of a consumer culture change the experience of consuming goods for people living in Paris?

Question 2

How did different groups experience the coming a consumer culture? Who benefited from it and who suffered?

Question 3

How did the coming of a consumer culture reshape the Parisian imagination? How did it alter their dreams and aspirations?

Question 4

In what ways, if any, did the coming of a consumer culture threaten the traditions of Paris by breaking down status hierarchies? In what ways, if any, did the Parisian consumer culture build on the traditions of the past?