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)