Resource Unit: The Great Depression

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Resource UnitThe Great Depression

• PowerPoint by
• Zachary Hyden

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Introduction

• General Theme The Great Depression
• Subject 10th grade American history
• Participants Approximately 120, 10th grade
  American history students
• When 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 7th periods between
  Thanksgiving and the Christmas breaks.
• Location Fairborn High School Fairborn, Ohio
• Duration This is a ten day unit that will span
  the entire 46 minute class period for each of
  those ten days.

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Unit Objectives

• Students will know
• The causes of The Depression
• How everyday life was affected by The Depression
• The New Deal and pulling America out of the
  Depression
• Impact of the New Deal
• The beginning of World War II

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NCSS Standards

• I. Culture
• II. Time, Continuity, and Change
• III. People, Places, and Environments
• IV. Individual Development and Identity
• V. Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
• VI. Power, Authority, and Governance
• VII. Production, Distribution, and Consumption
• VIII. Science Technology and Society
• IX. Global Connections
• X. Civic Ideals and Practices

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Content Industrial Causes of The Great
Depression

• Industries in Trouble
• Railroads
• Textiles
• Steel
• Coal
• These once ultra-profitable industries were now
  facing hardships. Many of them barely made
  profits toward the end of the 1920s

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Content Industrial Causes of The Great
Depression

• Farmers may have taken the worst hit of all.
• After World War I, demand fell but production
  didnt.
• Farmers tried to produce more to re-gain their
  losses, but this only drove the prices farther
  down.
• As farmers defaulted on their loans, local banks
  failed

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Economic Reasons for the Great Depression

• People have less money
• Buying on Credit
• Uneven Distribution of Income
• Stock Market Crashes

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Economic Reasons for the Great Depression

• People Have Less Money
• Rising Prices v. dormant wages
• The rich are getting richer and the poor are
  getting poorer
• Over-reliance on credit

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Economic Reasons for the Great Depression

• Buying on Credit
• Buy now pay later mentality
• Credit easily available
• People went into massive debt
• Businesses encouraged credit so they could sell
  more goods and make more profit.
• These were not real profits though since no
  money had actually changed hands
• People then stopped spending as much money when
  they realized that they were in so deep of debt.

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Economic Reasons for the Great Depression

• Distribution of Money
• The rich got richer and the poor got poorer
• A family needed 2,500 to live comfortably in the
  1920s.
• Less than 30 of people made 2,500
• Money became centralized at the top echelon of
  society

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Economic Reasons for the Great Depression

• Stock Market Crashes
• In early September, the market peaked.
• Black Thursday The market dropped dramatically
• Black Tuesday 16.4 million shares were dumped
  off by investors trying to save what little money
  they could.

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Economic Reasons for the Great Depression

• Reasons for the Crash
• Speculation High risk, High reward investing
• Buying on Margin Buying a small percentage of a
  stock and putting the rest on credit
• People hoped to hit it big on the market
• People had no way to pay back the money for the
  stocks that they bought on credit.

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Economic Reasons for the Great Depression

• Ramifications of the Crash
• General Panic
• People lost trust in the banks pulled all their
  money.
• Not everyone could get their money back
• Banks had invested in the market
• Banks were not insured by the federal government
• The crash did not cause the depression, just sped
  the process up.

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The World Wide Depression

• The depression did not just hit the United
  States, but affected the World as a whole

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Causes Reviewed
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Vocabulary

• Credit
• Speculation
• Buying on Margin
• Black Tuesday
• Black Thursday
• Great Depression

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Life During the Depression

• Life in the Cities
• Life in the Country
• Family Life

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Life During the Depression

• Life in the Cities
• Shantytowns
• People built shacks for shelter when they lost
  their homes
• Also known as Hoovervilles
• Many people placed direct blame on President
  Hoover for the economic hardships that they were
  facing.
• Soup Kitchens Bread Lines
• Free or low cost foods
• Came from charitable organizations

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Life During the Depression

• Life in the Country
• Banks foreclosed
• If the farmer could not make the payment, banks
  would take the farmers land and all the equity
  that the farmer had built.

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Life During the Depression

• Country Continued
• Tenant Farming
• an agricultural system in which landowners
  contribute their land and a measure of operating
  capital and management while tenants contribute
  their labour with various amounts of capital and
  management, the returns being shared in a variety
  of ways.
• http//www.britannica.com/eb/article-9071664/tenan
  t-farming

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Life During the Depression

• Country Continued
• Dust Bowl
• The most visible evidence of how dry the 1930s
  became was the dust storm. Tons of topsoil were
  blown off barren fields and carried in storm
  clouds for hundreds of miles. Technically, the
  driest region of the Plains southeastern
  Colorado, southwest Kansas and the panhandles of
  Oklahoma and Texas became known as the Dust
  Bowl, and many dust storms started there. But the
  entire region, and eventually the entire country,
  was affected. http//livinghistoryfarm.org/farmin
  ginthe30s/water_02.html
• Dustbowl Video

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Life During the Depression

• Family Life
• Men
• Were used to going to work and supporting a
  family
• Many left home to find work
• Term hobo originated during this time,
  describing men that would roam from town to town
  looking for work

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Life During the Depression

• Family Life
• Women
• Women kept the family together
• Faced resentment for working outside of the home
• Children
• Poor diets, lack of medical attention, disease.
• Schools closed
• Young children left home to find work and to take
  the burden off of their family

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Vocabulary

• Shantytown/ Hooverville
• Soup Kitchen
• Bread Lines
• Foreclosed
• Tenant Farming
• Dust Bowl
• Hobo

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The New Deal

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• The New Deal
• Alphabet Soup
• Fireside Chats
• Problems with the New Deal
• Deficit Spending

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The New Deal

• F.D.R.
• Elected President in 1932
• Began working on his New Deal before he took
  office in 1933
• 100 Days
• Refers to the time period between March 9th and
  June 16th
• Congress passed 15 pieces of new legislation

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The New Deal

• Alphabet Soup
• This term was given to F.D.R.s programs due to
  their acronyms.
• FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
• AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act
• TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
• CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
• PWA Public Works Administration
• NIRA National Industrial Recovery Act
• CWA Civil Works Administration
• NRA National Recovery Administration
• HOLC Home Owners Loan Coporartion
• FHA Federal Housing Act

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The New Deal

• Fireside Chats
• F.D.R. would give speeches that were broadcasted
  over the radio and were known as Fireside Chats
• These chats were aimed to ease the mind of the
  American Public and to let them know the progress
  that has been made and the future plans that
  would be implemented
• Fireside Chat with F.D.R.

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The New Deal

• Problems with the New Deal
• Deficit Spending
• The national government was spending more money
  than they were making
• Critics
• Said that the new deal gave too much authority to
  the national government
• Took away individual rights
• Impeded Capitalism

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Vocabulary

• F.D.R.
• 100 Days
• New Deal
• Alphabet Soup
• Deficit Spending

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Impact of the New Deal

• The New Deal created jobs that provided the
  necessary encouragement, hope, value and
  self-esteem to assist the American people to
  recapture their economic values. It was the
  solution to the problems everyone was facing
  widespread unemployment, homelessness, and
  farmers losing their land and livestock.
  http//www.nps.gov/fdrm/generation/newdeal.htm

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World War II

• The United States enters the War
• December 7th, 1941
• A date which will live in infamy
• F.D.R's Pearl Harbor Speech

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Vocabulary

• New Deal
• December 7, 1941
• Pearl Harbor Speech

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Lesson 1 and 2

• A pre-activity Quiz Run
• Students will be given a pre-test the day before
  the unit starts over the Great Depression
• The grades for these tests will not be recorded
  because they are a tool for the next days
  simulation
• The next day I will re-distribute the graded
  tests and inform the students that I have lost
  over half the tests that were taken.
• I will tell the students that they can not
  re-take the test since they already know the
  answers and those tests which I lost will go in
  the grade book as a zero.
• Hopefully this will get an emotional reaction out
  of the students.
• From there I will describe the concepts of
  bank-runs during the Great Depression
• From here, the students should realize the
  concept that is being described.
• NCSS Standards I, V, VI, VII

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Activity 3

• Web Quest
• Students will be taken to the media center and
  given two days to finish the Web Quest that is
  provided with this link
• Depression Web Quest
• NCSS Standards I, II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII,
  IX, X

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Lesson 4

• Buy Me On Credit
• I will make up 30 credit cards and distribute
  them to the class
• I will give the students 300 Monopoly Money
• I will give the students a list of goods that
  they can purchase with their credit cards which
  they will pay me for at a later date.
• I will have the students write down all the goods
  they want and have them turn them in to me
• These goods will range from a 25 toaster to a
  400 new Model T-Ford.

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Lesson 4 continued

• As the class progresses, I will slowly call in
  small amounts of money to simulate paying off the
  credit card on a monthly payment.
• All at once, I will call in all the debt that the
  class has accumulated.
• This should simulate the beginning of the
  economic crisis
• This will also work in describing how buying on
  margin facilitated to crash of the stock market.
• NCSS Standards I, II, IV, V, VIII

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Lesson 5

• The students will analyze this picture through
  the classroom smart board and write emotions that
  it evokes.
• NCSS Standards I, III, IV, VII

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Lesson 6

• My family
• The students will break off into families of
  three.
• Each student will be designated a role with-in
  the family (Father, Mother, Child)
• They will collaborate as a group and talk about
  the hardships that they face as individuals
• From this collaboration, each member will write a
  one page paper describing his/her hardships and
  how the rest of the family is dealing with these
  hardships as a whole.
• A rubric will be provided for this assignment
• NCSS Standards I, II, III, IV, V, VII

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Lesson 7

• Listen To Me Closely
• Students will listen to a fireside chat orated by
  F.D.R. two times
• The first time just to hear his message
• The second time to analyze his message
• They will take this fireside chat and will write
  down what they believe he was trying to convey in
  his speech.
• The students will also describe how this would
  have made them feel if they would have been alive
  during this time period.
• The students will take their written responses
  and use them as a guided facilitator in a
  classroom discussion.
• NCSS Standards I, II, III, VI, VIII

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Lesson 8

• Soups On!!!
• Students will be asked to make a poster with as
  many acronyms as they can find from the New Deal.
• The poster should contain between 8 and 10
  acronyms from the New Deal
• They should write the entire name of the group
  next to the corresponding letters
• Students should find pictures of the organization
  or something that they accomplished
• Students will present their posters and they will
  be displayed around the classroom
• NCSS Standards I, II, IV, V, VII, VIII, X

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Lesson 9

• Poetry/Music from the time
• Primary literature Students will choose two of
  the three poems/songs below to read and analyze.
  They will be expected to use the S.O.A.P. model
  to dissect the poems and will turn their diagrams
  in for a grade.
• NCSS Standards I, II, III, IV, VIII

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Brother can you Spare a Dime?

• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," lyrics by Yip
  Harburg, music by Jay Gorney (1931)
• They used to tell me I was building a dream, and
  so I followed the mob,
• When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I
  was always there right on the job.
• They used to tell me I was building a dream, with
  peace and glory ahead,
• Why should I be standing in line, just waiting
  for bread?
• Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it
  race against time.
• Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother,
  can you spare a dime?
• Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and
  rivet, and lime
• Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can
  you spare a dime?

• Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
• Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
• Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
• And I was the kid with the drum!
• Say, don't you remember, they called me Al it
  was Al all the time.
• Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can
  you spare a dime?
• Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
• Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
• Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
• And I was the kid with the drum!
• Say, don't you remember, they called me Al it
  was Al all the time.
• Say, don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can
  you spare a dime?

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Bowl of Cherries

• "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries," lyrics by Lew
  Brown, music by Ray Henderson (1931)
• People are queer, they're always crowing,
  scrambling and rushing about
• Why don't they stop someday, address themselves
  this way?
• Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time
  that we found out.
• We're not here to stay we're on a short holiday.
  
• Life is just a bowl of cherries.
• Don't take it serious it's too mysterious.
• You work, you save, you worry so,
• But you can't take your dough when you go, go,
  go.

• So keep repeating it's the berries,
• The strongest oak must fall,
• The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
  
• So how can you lose what you've never owned?
• Life is just a bowl of cherries,
• So live and laugh at it all.
• Life is just a bowl of cherries.
• Don't take it serious it's too mysterious.
• At eight each morning I have got a date,
• To take my plunge 'round the Empire State.
• You'll admit it's not the berries,
• In a building that's so tall
• There's a guy in the show, the girls love to
  kiss
• Get thousands a week just for crooning like this
• Life is just a bowl of . . . aw, nuts!
• So live and laugh at it all!

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Were in the Money

• We're in the Money," lyrics by Al Dubin, music by
  Harry Warren (from the film Gold Diggers of 1933,
  1933)
• We're in the money, we're in the money
• We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!
• We're in the money, that sky is sunny,
• Old Man Depression you are through, you done us
  wrong.
• We never see a headline about breadlines today.
• And when we see the landlord we can look that guy
  right in the eye
• We're in the money, come on, my honey,
• Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!
• Oh, yes we're in the money, you bet we're in the
  money,
• We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!
• Let's go we're in the money, Look up the skies
  are sunny,
• Old Man Depression you are through, you done us
  wrong.

• We never see a headline about breadlines today.
• And when we see the landlord we can look that guy
  right in the eye
• We're in the money, come on, my honey,
• Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!
• Oh, yes we're in the money, you bet we're in the
  money,
• We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!
• Let's go we're in the money, Look up the skies
  are sunny,
• Old Man Depression you are through, you done us
  wrong.
• We never see a headline about breadlines today.
• And when we see the landlord we can look that guy
  right in the eye
• We're in the money, come on, my honey,
• Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!

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Lesson 10

• Grapes of Wrath
• The students will watch the Grapes of Wrath
• Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and
  dispossessed farmers migrate westward to
  California. After terrible trials en route they
  become little more than slave labor. Among the
  throng are the Joads who refuse to knuckle
  under. http//imdb.com/title/tt0032551/plotsummar
  y
• Written by Ed Stephan stephan_at_cc.wwu.edu

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Grapes continued

• After watching the movie, students need to draw a
  picture, with color, depicting a scene in the
  movie they feel accurately represents this period
  in time. Supplies will be provided for the
  students
• NCSS Standards I, II, III, V, VI, VII

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Lesson 11

• Opponents to Roosevelt
• Many people felt that F.D.R. was trying to
  circumvent the power of the Supreme Court
• This political cartoon depicts some of the
  feeling towards Roosevelt at this time
• Students will be instructed to analyze this
  cartoon, which will be shown on the class room
  smart board and write bulleted responses about
  it.
• After they have turned in their responses, they
  will be instructed to create their own political
  cartoon in opposition to the New Deal/F.D.R.
• NCSS Standards I, V, VI

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Lesson 11 continued
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Lesson 12

• Video Clips
• Students will watch a variety of video clips from
  the internet that will be provided for them
  through the teachers projector monitor. The
  students will watch the clips and write a brief
  summary of what they saw, heard, and felt and how
  those emotions translate to the Great Depression
• Depression 1
• Depression 2
• F.D.R.'s recovery plan
• NCSS Standards I, II, III, IV, V

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Instructional Resources

• Teacher References
• Class Notes. American history 10. Rob Banks.
  Fairborn High School, Fall 2007.
• Class Notes. History 212. Dr. Jacob Dorn. Wright
  State University, Winter 2005.
• Danzer, G., Klor de Alve, J., Krieger, L.,
  Wilson, L., Woloch, N. (2007). The Americans
  Reconstruction to the 21st century. Evanston, IL
  McDougal Littell.
• Cassutto's, G. (2007). The alphabet soup of new
  deal agencies. Retrieved November 3, 2007 from
  http//www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/ushisto
  ry/newdealagencies.htm
• Pojer, S. (2007). The Great Depression begins
  (1929 1933). Retrieved November 7, 2007 from
  http//historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovern
  ment/Topics/Chapter22-TheGreatDepressionBegins.htm
  

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Instructional Resources

• Class Notes. American history 10. Rob Banks.
  Fairborn High School, Fall 2007.
• These are notes that my cooperating teacher at
  Fairborn High School has provided me with. These
  resources included worksheets, PowerPoint
  presentations, chapter overviews, and assessment
  tools.

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Instructional Resources

• Class Notes. History 212. Dr. Jacob Dorn. Wright
  State University, Winter 2005.
• This class gave a thematic survey of events,
  forces, groups, and individuals that contributed
  to and helped to shape an American civilization
  on the North American continent. It spanned the
  time period of 1877 to the present. These notes
  gave good background and in depth knowledge on
  the Great Depression.

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Instructional Resources

• Danzer, G., Klor de Alve, J., Krieger, L.,
  Wilson, L., Woloch, N. (2007). The Americans
  Reconstruction to the 21st century. Evanston, IL
  McDougal Littell.
• This is the text book that is used for this
  particular history class. It covers American
  history from the end of the American Civil War
  through the beginning of the 21st century. The
  book is broken down into seven units and consists
  of twenty six chapters. The chapters used for
  this resource unit included the end of chapter 13
  (The Roaring Life of the 1920s) most of chapter
  14 (The Great Depression Begins), most of chapter
  15 (The New Deal), and the beginning of chapter
  16 (World War Looms). This tool provided very
  good background and activity ideas. It also gave
  ideas for assessment opportunities.

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Instructional Resources

• Cassutto's, G. (2007). The alphabet soup of New
  Deal agencies. Retrieved November 3, 2007 from
  http//www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/ushisto
  ry/newdealagencies.htm
• This resource was pulled from the web and gave
  the idea for the Alphabet Soup of the New Deal
  game. The project listed in this resource unit is
  an adaptation that uses a more student centered
  style of learning.
• Students will make a poster board depicting
  between 8 and 10 acronyms from the New Deal era.
  The students will tell what the acronym stands
  for, give a brief synopsis of what the group
  accomplished, and a draw/copy a picture of the
  group or an accurate representation of the group.

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Instructional Resources

• Pojer, S. (2007). The Great Depression begins
  (1929 1933). Retrieved November 7, 2007 from
  http//historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovern
  ment/Topics/Chapter22-TheGreatDepressionBegins.htm
  
• This website was rich with information,
  assessment ideas, and teaching tools. The website
  had a wide spectrum of history knowledge that
  spanned from American History, to European
  History, to Global Studies, to Advanced Placement
  European History. Each sub-category had syllabi,
  assignments, quizzes, web links, and review
  questions.
• The link that I used was located under American
  History Government Main Page Chapter 22
  (The Great Depression Begins, 1929-1933)
• This site gave sources, questions, terms, and
  quiz questions

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Instructional Resources

• Delong, J. (1997). Slouching towards utopia? The
  economic history of the twentieth century-XIV.
  The great crash and the great slump. Retrieved
  October 28, 2007 from http//econ161.berkeley.edu/
  TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
• This site gives an immense amount of information
  and resources. It provides graphs as well as
  world background to the Great Depression. This
  site was developed by a professor at the
  University of California, Berkeley and has many
  different chapters at a persons disposal, not
  just material on the Great Depression.

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Instructional Resources

• Student References
• Danzer, G., Klor de Alve, J., Krieger, L.,
  Wilson, L., Woloch, N. (2007). The Americans
  Reconstruction to the 21st century. Evanston, IL
  McDougal Littell.
• This is the text book that is used for this
  particular history class. It covers American
  history from the end of the American Civil War
  through the beginning of the 21st century. The
  book is broken down into seven units and consists
  of twenty six chapters. The chapters used for
  this resource unit included the end of chapter 13
  (The Roaring Life of the 1920s) most of chapter
  14 (The Great Depression Begins), most of chapter
  15 (The New Deal), and the beginning of chapter
  16 (World War Looms). This tool provided very
  good background and activity ideas. It also gave
  ideas for assessment opportunities.

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Instructional Resources

• Kirk, K. (2005). The Great Depression treasure
  hunt. Retrieved November 7, 2007 from
  http//web.dps.k12.va.us/gibson/7th20Grade20Webp
  age20by20Kirk/Depression_Thunt.htm
• This activity will get the students involved with
  the Great Depression through technology. The web
  quest has many links and educational tools that
  the students will benefit from. There are
  interactive questions as well as a work sheet
  that the students will use to guide their
  endeavors during the activity.

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Instructional Resources

• Gibson, K. Causes of the Great Depression.
  Retrieved November 7, 2007 from
  http//web.dps.k12.va.us/gibson/7th20Grade20Webp
  age20by20Kirk/Causes20of20the20Great20Depres
  sion_GO.gif
• This is a very simple diagram that uses main
  ideas to help break down the causes of the Great
  Depression in a visual manner. Students could use
  this as a starting point and as time went on they
  could fill in details under each category.
  Students learn in many different ways, and the
  more diverse learning techniques that are
  implemented in the classroom the more students
  will benefit.

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Instructional Resources

• Delong, J. (1997). Slouching towards utopia? The
  economic history of the twentieth century-XIV.
  The great crash and the great slump. Retrieved
  October 28, 2007 from http//econ161.berkeley.edu/
  TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
• This site gave a very informative graph that the
  students will use and analyze to show the effects
  of the Great Depression, not only in America but
  on a World Wide scale. Although this unit is
  geared toward an American history course, world
  wide context is always pertinent information.

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Instructional Resources

• Encyclopedia Britannica. (2007). Tenant farming.
  Retrieved November 3, 2007 from Encyclopedia
  Britannica Online http//www.britannica.com/eb/ar
  ticle-9071664
• This gives students definitions that are more
  complete and easy to understand in a real world
  context compared to text-book definitions. This
  particular definition gave students insight into
  tenant farming and its impact in the 1930s.

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Instructional Resources

• Ganzel, B. Farming in the 1930sThe dust bowl.
  Retrieved November 2, 2007 from
  http//livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water
  _02.html
• This website gives definitions and first hand
  video account of people who lived through the
  dust bowl and the experiences that they took from
  this time period.

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Instructional Resources

• Ibis Communications. (2007). History in motion
  The dust bowl 1936. Retrieved November 8, 2007
  from http//www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/himdustbow
  l.htm
• This website gives first hand historical
  accounts. This particular video gives a good
  representation of what someone living through the
  dust bowl would have seen during one of the
  storms.

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Instructional Resources

• F.D.R. Memorial. (2004). A new deal. Retrieved
  November 8, 2007 from http//www.nps.gov/fdrm/gene
  ration/newdeal.htm
• This website gives a very good overview of what
  the new deal was trying to accomplish and the
  goals that F.D.R. set out to accomplish. It is
  short but very concise. Students can read this
  and use it as a cheat sheet for quick reference.

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Instructional Resources

• Peters, G. (1999). Franklin D. Roosevelt First
  fireside chat (banking). Retrieved November 5,
  2007 from http//www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay
  .php?id14540admin32
• This is a clip of F.D.R.s first fireside chat
  where he addressed the nation about banking. This
  resources allows the students not only to hear
  the words of F.D.R. but allows them to see the
  person as well. It is a first hand account and is
  a very good educational tool.

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Instructional Resources

• Eidenmuller, M. (2001). Franklin Delano
  Roosevelt Pearl Harbor address to the nation.
  Retrieved October 30, 2007 from
  http//www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlh
  arbor.htm
• This website gives a first hand account of
  F.D.R.s speech to the nation. In addition to
  giving the audio, this website has a transcript
  of his speech so students can read along as
  F.D.R. is speaking.

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Instructional Resources

• Lavender, C. Songs of the Great Depression.
  Retrieved November 8, 2007 from
  http//www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/laven
  der/cherries.html
• This website gives three examples of songs/poems
  that were written at this time. Although there is
  no audio streaming from this website, it would
  not be very difficult to find a copy of one of
  the songs for the students to listen to. Music
  often reflects the culture of a time period and I
  feel that these are three good reflections of the
  Great Depression.

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Instructional Resources

• Ford, J. (1940). The grapes of wrath (movie).
  Retrieved November 2, 2007 from
  http//imdb.com/title/tt0032551/
• Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and
  dispossessed farmers migrate westward to
  California. After terrible trials en route they
  become little more than slave labor. Among the
  throng are the Joads who refuse to knuckle under.
  plot summary
• This movie will give students a different form of
  exposure to the hardships that people faced in
  the 1930s

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Instructional Resources

• Cassutto's, G. (2007). The alphabet soup of New
  Deal agencies. Retrieved November 3, 2007 from
  http//www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/ushisto
  ry/newdealagencies.htm
• This resource was pulled from the web and gave
  the idea for the Alphabet Soup of the New Deal
  game. The project listed in this resource unit is
  an adaptation that uses a more student centered
  style of learning.
• Students will make a poster board depicting
  between 8 and 10 acronyms from the New Deal era.
  The students will tell what the acronym stands
  for, give a brief synopsis of what the group
  accomplished, and a draw/copy a picture of the
  group or an accurate representation of the group.
  

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Instructional Resources

• What the president wants. This is a political
  cartoon that was pulled from the internet on
  November 4, 2007 from http//www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fd
  r/1937/37_scgifs/small/37021601.gif
• This cartoon depicts Roosevelt trying to squash
  the Supreme Court with his New Deal. This cartoon
  shows the opposite side of what many students are
  taught about F.D.R. For most students F.D.R is
  portrayed as a knight in shining armor that
  rescued America from the Great Depression. This
  cartoon, and the activity that goes along with
  it, gives perspective to other points of view.

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Instructional Resources

• Library of Congress. (2007). Scenes from the
  Great Depression 1935-1945. Retrieved November
  5, 2007 from http//youtube.com/watch?vpgR2Buke5M
  Q
• This gives a great picture show and has music
  from the time period in the background. This
  should get an emotional response from students.

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Instructional Resources

• (2007).The Great Depression (Britannica.com).
  Retrieved November 5, 2007 from
  http//youtube.com/watch?vTCNKq0-9p3w
• This video shows the panic of the Stock Market
  crash in 1929. It gives first hand video of the
  panic in the streets as well as the ramifications
  felt worldwide.

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Instructional Resources

• (2007). U.S. thrilled as FDR outlines
  recovery,1933/10/23 (1933). Retrieved November 5,
  2007 from http//youtube.com/watch?vPXY7TkrPPzI
• This is the actual video of a F.D.R. speech to
  the nation. He speaks about farm recovery, money
  security, and home foreclosure.

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Assessments

• Web Quest-20 points
• Paragraph from picture-10 points
• My Family Assignment-20 points
• Fireside Chat Notes and Class Discussion -15
  points
• Alphabet Soup Poster-20points

• Poetry/Music S.O.A.P. 15 points
• Grapes of Wrath Poster- 20 points
• F.D.R. Political Cartoon 10 points for
  analysis 10 points for creating a new picture
• Response to Video Clips 5 points for each video
  clip response (15 points total)
• Unit Test 50 points

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Unit Test Questions

• Multiple Choice Questions
• The strongest opposition to F.D.R.s New Deal
  came from?
• Migrant Workers
• Business Leaders
• Factory Workers
• Recent immigrants
• In the 1930s, which geographic change most
  influenced the westward migration of thousands of
  people from the Southern Great Plains?
• Extended drought in farming areas
• Excessive flooding of the Mississippi
• Earthquakes in Pacific coastal regions
• Destructive hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico

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Unit Test Questions

• Multiple Choice Questions
• 3. What event most closely associates with the
  end of the Great Depression?
• Passage of the Social Security Act
• Beginning of WWII
• Re-election of F.D.R. in 1940
• Announcement of the Marshall Plan
• 4. The Dust Bowl experiences of the Oklahoma
  farmers during the Great Depression demonstrated?
• The effect of geography on peoples lives
• The success of government farm subsidies
• The limitation of civil liberties during times of
  crisis
• The result of the Indian Removal Act

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Unit Test Questions

• Short Answer
• Give 3 examples of Alphabet Soup agencies. Give
  the acronym, the actual name, and something that
  the agency accomplished
• How did the Dust Bowl impact farmers in Oklahoma?

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Unit Test Questions

• Extended Response
• In four to six sentences, explain how the
  prosperity of the 1920s facilitated the economic
  collapse of the 1930s.

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Intervention and Adaptation

• Any student that needs interventions or
  adaptations will be accommodated. The student can
  sit closer to the front of the room to see the
  PowerPoint presentation more clearly. The student
  can be provided with audio equipment to hear
  lectures/audio clips more efficiently. Extra time
  will be granted for tests if need be. When
  needed, an intervention specialist will be
  provided. Extra time, or alternate assignments,
  will also be provided for reading and writing
  assignments for students who need it.

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Reflection

• Since I have been unable to implement this
  resource unit, I have no reflection at this time.
  In the future I hope to use this as an
  educational tool that facilitates learning in my
  classroom.