This document provides an overview of key concepts related to modernism and postmodernism. It discusses how modernism emerged from the late 19th century with industrialization, capitalism, and secularization. Technologies like the automobile and telephone altered perceptions of time and space. Theories like Taylorism and Fordism aimed to increase efficiency and productivity through specialization and assembly lines. However, events like the World Wars and economic crashes eroded trust in rationalism and science, contributing to postmodernism's emphasis on style over substance and skepticism of grand narratives. Students are assigned to complete a chart comparing modern and postmodern traits, and create mind maps analyzing specific modernist and postmodernist works in their historical contexts.