Historic Fiction 📸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression...

⏰ What We Did

• Created a news article on an assigned historic Great Depression-era photograph, based on the provided rubric

⚙️ Resources

• Historic Fiction Rubric
• Historic Fiction Photographs

Notes: The Social Toll 📝

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression...

⏰ What We Did

• Recorded notes from a provided outline related to the social toll of the Great Depression

⚙️ Resources

• Outline: The Social Toll
• Notes: The Social Toll

LINK: The Dust Bowl 🔗

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression...

⏰ What We Did

• With a provided text on the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, completed a LINK (List, Inquire, Notes, Know) graphic organizer

⚙️ Resources

• LINK Text: The Dust Bowl
• LINK Graphic Organizer: The Dust Bowl

YMTR: President Hoover's Response 📃

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression...

⏰ What We Did

• Create critical thinking questions on a text regarding the response to the start of the Great Depression, given by President Herbert Hoover
• Answer the teacher's questions created from the same text

⚙️ Resources

• You Make the Read Text: President Hoover's Response
• You Make the Read Activity: President Hoover's Response

CCR: Why the Great Depression Was a Disaster Waiting to Happen 🏚

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression...

⏰ What We Did

• Conduct a close and critical reading on the events leading up to the Great Depression

⚙️ Resources

• Close and Critical Reading Text: Why the Great Depression Was a Disaster Waiting to Happen
• Close and Critical Reading Prompts: Why the Great Depression Was a Disaster Waiting to Happen

Alike But Different, Take 2 ✌️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Understand the changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War II, investigate the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society, and how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state

⏰ What We Did

• Based upon yesterday's submitted work, reintroduced how to complete the "Alike But Different" activity

⚙️ Resources

• Alike But Different 2: The United States Turns Inward

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Day 3 🎞

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression, including fiscal policy, overproduction, underconsumption, speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl; the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers, and families; President Herbert Hoover’s policies and their impact, including the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Day 2.B 🎞

Late Start Day 🕣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression, including fiscal policy, overproduction, underconsumption, speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl; the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers, and families; President Herbert Hoover’s policies and their impact, including the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Day 2 🎞

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression, including fiscal policy, overproduction, underconsumption, speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl; the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers, and families; President Herbert Hoover’s policies and their impact, including the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Day 1 🎞

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression, including fiscal policy, overproduction, underconsumption, speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl; the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers, and families; President Herbert Hoover’s policies and their impact, including the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Christmas Vacation — No School 🎄

Clintondale High School is currently on Christmas Vacation. Classes will resume on Monday, January 6, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year, Dragons!

Christmas Break Countdown 🎶

⏰ What We Did

• Due to low student census, listened to Christmas music and played classroom games

Black Tuesday — 29 Oct 1929 📉

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression

⏰ What We Did

• Watched a History documentary on the lead-up to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression

Taking to the Text: Causes of the Great Depression 📖

Today's class was led by a guest teacher. 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression

⏰ What We Did

• Watched a tutorial on how to talk to a text
• Silently read a provided article while interacting with the text

⚙️ Resources

• Talking to the Text (T4) Bookmark
• T4 Demonstration Video
• The Causes of the Great Depression

Guided Questions: The United States Turns Inward (1920s and 1930s) 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Understand the changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War II, investigate the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society, and how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state

⏰ What We Did

• Answered guided questions about isolationism and the domestic affairs the United States experienced following World War I

⚙️ Resources

• Guided Questions: The United States Turns Inward (1920s and (1930s) (OpenStax U.S. History)

Alike But Different: "The United States Turns Inward" 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Understand the changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War II, investigate the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society, and how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state

⏰ What We Did

• Read a provided text regarding American isolation during the 1920s and 1930s
• Compare and contrast the two decades

⚙️ Resources

• The United States Turns Inward (1920s and 1930s)
• Alike But Different: The United States Turns Inward

Era 6 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess Era 6 comprehension

⏰ What We Did

• Completed the Era 6 Assessment

Era 6 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess Era 6 comprehension

⏰ What We Did

• Began the Era 6 Assessment

Era 6 Review ♻️

Late Start Day 🕣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review concepts introduced in Era 6

⏰ What We Did

• Due to today's Late Start, the Era 6 Assessment will take place tomorrow
• Prepare for tomorrow's Era 6 Assessment by reviewing the six main topics covered in the unit

Era 6 Review ♻️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review concepts introduced in Era 6

⏰ What We Did

• Returned and corrected past work from Era 6 to review for tomorrow's assessment

Era 6 Infographic Project ℹ️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and consequences — both positive and negative — of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930
• Select and evaluate major public and social issues emerging from the changes in industrial, urban, and global America during this period

⏰ What We Did

• Finished the Era 6 infographic poster, summarizing each of the six major topics covered in U.S. History & Geography