The Great Depression

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Everything students need to know about The Great Depression!

TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class!

Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class!
Lectures with graphic organizers.
Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons. Lotsa mapping.
Games galore, including “The Gong Show.”
Group analysis and debates.
Projects: Students teach the class.
Homework on the internet.
Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the New Deal” (recall terms). “Can you talk like FDR?” (define terms).
“Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.)
Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!”
Concludes with the mother of all tests: 784 questions.
Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.
    The Great Depression covers:
  • The Hoover Years: From the stock market crash to Hoover’s defeat.
  • The Causes: What caused the stock market crash?
  • The Solutions: Compare Hoover and FDR. (From small government to big government. From laissez-faire to government intervention in the economy. From rugged individualism to the welfare state.)
  • The Suffering: The Dust Bowl.
  • The New Deal: All the federal government programs from A to Z.
  • Organized labor: The federal government legalized the right to collective bargaining.
  • Pop culture in the 1930s: Escapist movies, soap opera, plus macaroni and cheese.