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
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Anticipatory Set
Brain Pop: The Great Depression
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Review of Previous Learning
What caused the Stock Market Crash of
1929?
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Group Discussion
Great Depression vs. Today
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Lesson
Causes of the Great Depression
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Product
Bubble map
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.