Using PowerPoint in Your Lessons

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Using PowerPoint in Your Lessons

• A sample for a lesson on the Great Depression

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Aim The Great DepressionA Major Social
Problem in American History
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The Great Depression of the 1930s
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Have you ever been
Depressed?
How did you feel?
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Depression
. Economics. A period of drastic decline in a
national or international economy, characterized
by decreasing business activity, falling prices,
and unemployment AND POVERTY
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THE NINETEEN THIRTIES IN AMERICA

• In your groups, complete the worksheets
• listing evidence for Depression in each slide
  shown
• Be sure all members of the group have input

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STUDENT RESPONSE CHART

• SLIDE EVIDENCE OF DEPRESSION
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• 3

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Slide 1Photos of America 1935
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WEST VIRGINIA 1934
Slide 2
A MOTHER WAITS FOR FREE FOOD TO FEED HER STARVING
CHILD 1934
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OKLAHOMA 1936
DUST BOWL
SLIDE 3
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STATISTICS SLIDE 4
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ROUTE 66 TO CALIFORNIA
SLIDE 5
NO ONE KNOWS WHERE WE ARE GOING!
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Slide 6
ARKANSAS 1936 They lost their home
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SLIDE 7
Soup Kitchen 1935
STAND IN LINE FOR SOUP!
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LITHOGRAPH FROM THE DEWITT CLINTON H.S. LITERARY
MAGAZINE 1938 SLIDE 8
AMERICANS IN 1935
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Lets sing along Brother Can You Spare A
Dime SLIDE 9
http//www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/laven
der/cherries.html
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An Oral History of the Great Depression
Slide 10
http//www.mcsc.k12.in.us/mhs/social/madedo/oralhi
st/
Gather Evidence for the PROBLEMS in the GREAT
DEPRESSION from this website
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THE SUMMARY
1 Identify a social problem of the Great
Depression 2 List evidence for the Great
Depression LINKS DEFINE THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
GATHER EVIDENCE FOR THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
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Homework Assignment

• You are now
• Make up a diary of 7 days
• My Life during the Depression