1 What do you think this quote is talking about 2What does this quote tell us about this era of history And the great owners who must lose their land in an upheaval the great owners with access to history with eyes to read history and to know the great fact when property accumulates in ID: 759140
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Slide1
Analyze this Primary Source
1) What do you think this quote is talking about?
2)What
does this quote tell us about this era of history?
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
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John Steinbeck,
The Grapes of Wrath
,
Ch.
19
Slide2Life During the Great Depression
Unit 7
Slide3Life during the Great Depression Matters because?
Many people lost their homes and jobs.
Popular entertainment tried to help people forget their worries.
Novelists and artists began to realistically portray life in America
Slide4Turn and Talk – What does this mean?
Slide5Were people struggling to get by?
Immigrants began to go back to their country (voluntarily / forced)Many people lost their jobs (33% unemployment)Soup kitchens arose to feed joblessMany lost their homes – shantytowns developed (Hoovervilles)
Hoboes
Slide6Turn and talk -what do you see?
Slide7Could things get worse?
The Dust Bowl – North Dakota to TexasDrought left land dry, wind blew dust everywhere Skies were black for milesDust buried crops/livestock/ suffocated those caught in storms50 storms a year during the 1930sMany lost their farms!
Slide8Slide9Turn and
TalkWhat are your impressions?
Slide10Ken Burns
Slide11The Arts and Entertainment Industry
Entertainment was an escapeRadio programs and the movies became really popularThe rise of Soap Operas (sponsors were often laundry soap aimed at women)Literature began to reflect life around America
Slide12Some famous 1930s entertainment
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Disney – 1
st
feature length animated film
Wizard of OZ
Gone with the Wind (9 academy awards, 1
st
African America to win)
The Green Hornet superhero
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
American Gothic by Grant Wood
Marx Brothers
Slide13Slide14Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
attributed to Groucho
Marx
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho
Marx
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho
Marx
I sent the club a wire stating,
“PLEASE
ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER
.”
Groucho Marx
Slide15Today’s Activity
Assignment #1 – Read 242-243 in your groups and create a word web for each section (include 4 facts for each web {8 total facts between the 2)Asssignment #2 – Pgs 237- 239 create a haiku for each of the sections describing its main idea.Remember a haiku is a short poem that has 3 lines (5 syllables in the first 7 syllables in the second and 5 in the third)E.g. Dust is flying in (5 syllables) Everywhere I look its there (7 syllables) Need to go back east (5 syllables)
Title of the section you read
Fact about the section