U.S.
History II
11th Grade
The Great Depression:
Lasting Social Impact
Standard 6: Students will understand how the Great
Depression and the New Deal affected the United States. 1: Investigate the impact
of the Great Depression on the United
States 2: Examine the social effect of the
Great Depression.
Objectives:
Students will investigate the social effects of the Great Depression. Students
will compare the economic hardship then to the current situation (2010).
Foreknowledge: Students
should understand the quality of life prior to the Depression as well as some
of the current events concerning the economy today.
Materials Needed: Students
should have a journal/ paper and writing utensils, a computer capable of
playing radio broadcast of FDR, projector to project photos or copies of the
same pictures, and a copy of transcripts of radio broadcast to share between
students.
Bell Ringer: Have Depression-era jazz playing
as students come into the classroom (Ken Burns, Free at http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_depression.htm).
After announcements, etc., have the students listen to one of FDR’s radio broadcasts
and give students a copy of the transcripts to follow along (http://www.hpol.org/record.php?id=2). Have the students take 2-3 minutes to answer
the question in their journals. How did it make you feel? Better or worse? If
you were living during the Great Depression, would you take comfort in what was
said? And other General feelings.
Lecture: The
effects of the Depression extended beyond the economic and government collapse.
It effected the social lives of all Americans.
Have the
Students create a compare and contrast bubble chart with The Great Depression
on one side and today’s recession on the other with commonalities between the
two.
As a class
come up with several social effects of the Depression and the effects of the recession
of the 2008-2010 and then the similarities if any:
- Food
- Type of jobs
- Attitudes
- Hope
- Food
- Jobs
- Recovery
- Hope
Before going through the similarities have the students look
and compare the photos from the Great Depression and today.
Assessment: Have
students keep their journal entry and their notes bubble cart in a note book
and have them turn them in at the end of the week to see if they were able to
grasp the concept.
"Children and Sugar Beets"
By L.C. Harmon, Hall County, Nebraska, October 17, 1940
Hundreds of people stand in line as they
look for jobs at the Miami Dade College Mega Job Fair 2009 on March 4, 2009 in North Miami, Florida.
Job fairs are swamped with applicants as the economy continues to tank and many
people find themselves unemployed. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A sign informing readers that Fremont Pontiac GMC is permanently closed is seen on a door at the Newark, Calif. dealership, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. The dealership closed due to economic conditions earlier this year. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) #
People attend the REDC Foreclosure Home
Auction in New York,
in this photo taken March 8, 2009. About 1,400 people crowded into New York's first
foreclosure auction over the weekend. One family bought a 2,062-square foot
home in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York for just $12, 500 or $6 per square
foot, according to the New York Post. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) 
Job seekers join a line of hundreds at a
job fair in Heredia, Costa Rica on March 6, 2009. The
job fair attracted hundreds of unemployed Costa Ricans looking for work across
the country. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
A homeless resident of a tent city in Sacramento, California
wears an American flag jacket on March 10, 2009. This tent city of the homeless
is seeing an increase in population as the economy worsens, as more people join
the ranks of the unemployed and as homes slip into foreclosure. (Justin
Sullivan/Getty Images) #
All of the above Photos http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/scenes_from_the_recession.html
Sources:
PBS The Great
Depression History in the key of jazz accessed 17 February 2010 http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_depression.htm
History and
Politics Out Loud accessed 17 February 2010 http://www.hpol.org/record.php?id=2
National Arcives,
Picturing the Century: The Great Depression, Acessed 17 February 2010,http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/galleries/greatdep.html
Boston.com Senes
from the recession accessed 17 February 2010 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/scenes_from_the_recession.html
About.com
accessed 17 February 2010 http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blygd49.htm
As well as Google Image search
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