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)