Cardsort: "Opposition to the New Deal" 👎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate President Franklin Roosevelt’s policies and tactics during the New Deal era...

⏰ What We Did

• Finished the cardsort started yesterday on the opposition to the New Deal

Cardsort: "Opposition to the New Deal" 👎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate President Franklin Roosevelt’s policies and tactics during the New Deal era...

⏰ What We Did

• Discussed the answers to yesterday's viewing guide questions
• Began a cardsort on the opposition to the New Deal, using a provided text

⚙️ Resources

• Opposition to the New Deal (Text)
• Opposition to the New Deal (Cards)

"Bust," America: The Story of Us, Part B 🗽

🎯 Learning Targets

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

⏰ What We Did

• Discussed the answers to yesterday's viewing guide questions
• Finished watching Episode 9 — "Bust" — of America: The Story of Us while completing a viewing guide

"Bust," America: The Story of Us, Part A 🗽

🎯 Learning Targets

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

⏰ What We Did

• Assigned seats for the Second Semester
• Provided a brief introduction to the Second Semester
• Began watching Episode 9 — "Bust" — of America: The Story of Us while completing a viewing guide

⚙️ Resources

• "Bust," America: The Story of Us
• Viewing Guide: "Bust," America: The Story of Us

Records Day — No School 📂

Clintondale High School is closed for Records Day. The Second Semester will begin tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Semester Assessment — Era 7 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess comprehension of Era 7 in United States History

⏰ What We Did

• Completed the Semester Assessment, covering Era 7

Cold Weather Advisory — No School 🥶

Clintondale High School is closed due to extreme cold. Classes will resume on Thursday, January 23, 2024, at 7:35 A.M.

Cold Weather Advisory — No School 🥶

Clintondale High School is closed due to extreme cold. Classes will resume on Thursday, January 23, 2024, at 7:35 A.M.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day — No School 🇺🇸

Clintondale High School is closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Classes will resume on Tuesday, January 21, 2024, at 7:35 A.M.

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)