Objective 33 Explore life during the Depression and the efforts made to restore prosperity in the USA and elsewhere WarmUp The Great Depression If someone says it better let them say it CRASH ID: 702842
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The Great Depression and the Americas (1929 – 39)
Objective 3.3:
Explore life during the Depression and the efforts made to restore prosperity in the USA and elsewhereSlide2
Warm-Up: The Great Depression
If someone says it better, let them say
it… CRASH
COURSE
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While watching, complete the fill-in notes! Slide3
Group Work: The Face of the Great Depression (pgs. 309 – 315)
Read your assigned section 1. to 4.
Think about and discuss the following questions…
What was the main purpose behind the assigned section?
How was this section’s segment(s) of the population affected by the Great Depression?
Answer the questions at the end of your assigned section’s introductory paragraphSlide4
Cesar Chavez Gets Tractored
off the Land (1936)
How did Cesar Chavez assess the Depression’s impact on his father and the rest of his family?
In what ways, might the experience of the Depression have contributed to his later commitment to organizing the
farmworkers
? Slide5
A Salesman Goes on Relief (1930s)
What was the most difficult part of Ben Isaacs experience?
What does he think about the surge of post-World War II prosperity? Slide6
A Boy in Chicago Writes to President Roosevelt (1936)
What does the boy think is the Depression’s worst impact on his family? Slide7
Hard Times in a North Carolina Cotton Mill (1938 – 1939)
How did Sam T. Mayhew survive?
What is his attitude toward welfare? Slide8
Statistical Analysis: The Dust Bowl
Study the given charts
Use the information provided to answer the questions that follow on a separate piece of loose-leaf paper
Be prepared to discuss your responsesSlide9
Mapping: The Dust BowlSlide10
The Grapes of Wrath
How does
The Grapes of Wrath
show the effects of the Great Depression on the “
Okies
”? Slide11
Warm-Up: Partner Review—
Only Yesterday
(XIV. Aftermath – 1930-1931) by Frederick Lewis Allen
What previous knowledge was confirmed in the text?
What new knowledge was put forth in the text?
What surprised you about the text?
What confused you about the text? Slide12
The Century: America’s Time
Stormy Weather (1929 - 1936)
While watching consider the given guiding questions (treat them as notes) and the following BIG QUESTION…
What challenges are presented to the
different segments of society during the “Great Depression”?Slide13
Document Analysis:
Letters to the White House
Letter #1
Letter #2
Finding the Main Idea
What is the major point of the letter?
What does W.H.H. think is the cause of unrest in the country?
Finding the Main Idea
What is the major point of the letter?
Why did J.B. think the radio program was a mistake?Slide14
Herbert Hoover Clashes with Franklin Roosevelt
For your assigned section give a summary as to the perspective of the author (pull direct quotes that support your summation)
On Public Versus Private Power
Hoover Upholds Free Enterprise (1932)
Roosevelt Pushes Public Power (1932
On Government in Business
Hoover Assails Federal Intervention (1932)
Roosevelt Attacks Business in Government (1932)
On Balancing the Budget
Hoover Stresses Economy (1932)
Roosevelt Stresses Humanity (1932)
On Restricted Opportunity
Roosevelt Urges Welfare
Statism
(1932)
Hoover Calls for New Frontiers (1932)Slide15
Quickwrite
Respond to the following prompt…
No
other man in the United States had a higher reputation than Hoover in the 1920s, and none rated lower in public esteem in the early 1930s. Was this a reversal of public opinion justified? Should Hoover be admired for the consistency of his beliefs, even under severe criticism?