Power Point- lesson on November 20, 2013

1. Today’s Objective
We will be able to describe how the
characteristics of the Great Depression
were reflected in the art, music, film, and
literature of the time.

2. •
Today’s Agenda
Bell Ringer:
Primary Source Reading 17-1
•
Anticipatory Set
Brain Pop: The Great Depression
•
Review of Previous Learning
What caused the Stock Market Crash of
1929?
•
Group Discussion
Great Depression vs. Today
•
Lesson
Causes of the Great Depression
•
Product
Bubble map

3. ANNOUNCEMENTS

4. This Week in U.S. History
•Wednesday, Nov. 20
Early Years of the Great Depression
•Thursday, Nov. 21
The Dust Bowl
•Friday, Nov. 22
Life During the Great Depression
•Monday, Dec. 2
Gallery Walk
• Tuesday, Dec. 3
Gallery Walk

5. GP Movie Club
Thursday
3 p.m.
Room 113
Next Week’s
Movie:
Of Mice
and Men

6. Gopher Basketball
Friday, 7:30, vs. Desoto
Gopher Bowl

7. Unit 6
Study
Guide
due
MONDAY,
Dec. 2

8. GP1-RD2-CC
Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Imperialism/World War I
Roaring ’20s
Depression
World War II
Cold War
Civil Rights Movement

9. State Standards
16C (r): Analyze the effects of the Great
Depression on the U.S. economy
and society such as widespread
unemployment and deportation
and repatriation of people of
European and Mexican heritage
and others.

10. According to
this map,
which region
of the U.S.
suffered most
directly from
the Dust
Bowl?

11. Which of the following was NOT a cause of the
Dust Bowl?
A.Farmers had plowed up grasses that had
held the soil’s moisture
B.A severe drought turned the soil into dust
C.Cool temperatures made it difficult for
farmers to grow anything
D.Farmers exhausted the soil of its nutrients
by over-farming

12. Many U.S. farmers from the Great Plains left
their farms and migrated to California in the
1930s because of:
A. the extremely high cost of new farm
machinery
B. federal and state assistance programs
available to farmers in California
C. drought and dust storms that destroyed
their crops
D. the availability of factory jobs in
California

13. Bell Ringer
Other than in a class, give
three ways you learn
about history.

14. Today’s Objective
We will be able to describe how the
characteristics of the Great Depression
were reflected in the art, music, film, and
literature of the time.

15. Life During the
Depression
By Brad Harris, Grand Prairie HS
SE: 2B, 2C, 16C, 25A, 25B

16. Life during
Depression
The photography of Dorothea Lange
recorded the misery of people during the

17. Life during
Depression
Lange’s photo series of a Migrant Mother is
perhaps her most famous pictures

23. Life during
Depressio
n
Books like John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of
Wrath gave a vivid account of what life was
like during the Great Depression

24. Depression literature, art
Steinbeck’s book is the story of a family
migrating from Oklahoma to California
after losing their farm during the Dust

25. Depression
literature
Steinbeck also wrote the novel Of Mice and
Men, which gave a depiction of two migrant
farm workers during the Depression.

26. Migration from the Dust Bowl (4:17)

27. Depression literature, art
Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic showed
traditional American values, particularly those
of rural Americans in the Midwest.

28. Hobos
Many homeless people began
to wander around the country,
walking, hitchhiking or, most
often, “riding the rails”
(hopped on trains).
These men who
wandered the
country were
called “hobos”

29. Hobos
It is estimated that about 2.5 million men
abandoned their homes during the Great
Depression and went on the road.

31. Children during
Depression
Children suffered terribly during the Depression

32. Children during Depression
Sickness was a big problem during the
Depression. Diseases such a rickets and
scoliosis were common.

33. Children during
Depression
Many children during the Depression
lacked basic necessities like proper
shoes, clothing, and food

34. Children during
Depression
Many children ran away from home,
hopping rides aboard freight trains.

35. Entertainment during
Depression
The movie The Wizard of Oz was not only
one of the biggest movies of the ’30s, it was
very symbolic of the times

36. Entertainment during
Depression
Listening to the radio was the most common
form of entertainment during the

37. Al Jolson - Brother can you spare a Dime

39. Entertainment during
Depression
Going to dance halls and competing in
dance marathons also were pastimes

40. Entertainment during the Depression (2:50)

41. COMING UP
NEXT!
FDR takes over

42. Today’s Objective
We will be able to describe how the
characteristics of the Great Depression
were reflected in the art, music, film, and
literature of the time.

43. Today’s Product
I will write a write a poem, song, or letter
reflecting what life was like during the
Great Depression.