Ch 22 & 23 Project

You can make and awesome creative project or write your own test.  It's up to you.  Due next class.

Worksheet & Directions:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1srWALXyekT7LPi_gdWw5zvvf3Fhhnln9OrQiB50Macg/edit?usp=sharing

 

An amazing student created example of a video is here:


 

What Caused the Dust Bowl? DBQ Essay

We'll be working on your five paragraph document based question (DBQ) essay on the Dust Bowl the next two classes.  The rough draft is due at the end of class (11/15 and 11/18) and finial copy will be turned in the following class (you'll have about 20 minutes to finish up and grade it). 

DBQ Essay guideline and how to presentation.

Click here for a pdf version of the assignment
 
Remember that the essay must be in your own words and not copied. 


When you finish your final draft next class, you and another student need to grade the essay using the pink rubric sheet and then turn it in. 


Dust clouds, as explained by Mr. Furst:

  
Finished?  You can watch CNN Student News and/or work on Chapter 23/4 homework and look over the enhancement materials for Ch 23.  
You can also check out Ken Burns' excellent documentary on the Dust Bowl.  It's highly recommended.

Ch 23 The Great Depression & The New Deal Enchancement

Chapter 23 Book Resources

Ch 23 practice quizzes and other resources
(click on progress monitoring tests for the quizzes)
Ch 23 Practice Test

Great Depression Crossword

Oh Yeah?: Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity

More to come?  Have any other resources to share?

Online Resources

FDR and Polio

Videos

You can also search Google for John Steinbeck, Shirley Temple, and King Kong (1933) from section 3.

Stock Market WebQuest

Simulation I

1. Click here and make sure that it opens in another window.

2. Read the introduction and then click on "Trade Traditional Stocks"

3. (You don’t need to update the Shock player. Don't update. If you have trouble, let me know.)

4. Buy stock in Duke, YeeeeeHaw.com, the Electric Co, and hypercola in any combination.

5. You don’t need to spend all of your money right away and you can buy and sell with each turn.

6. Hit the “two week advance” button.

7. Click on the "news flash" option, read and evaluate. Then buy and sell stock.

8. Repeat step 6.

How'd you do? Record your percent return in your notebook.

Simulation II

If you've mastered the first one and have time, try your hand at this one. It's more complex and has a variety of scenarios. It also uses real company stock for examples.

Bonus question:
Was the 1929 crash the biggest stock market crash in U.S. history? It depends on how you measure but there's some interesting info here.

If you still have time, check out the Golden Age of Radio WebQuest.

Great Depression Videos

Here's a small sampling.  Have any more you'd recommend?

From It's A Wonderful Life--Bank Run




Stock Market Crash

20s & 30s Dancing

We'll give this a try in class and then in the gym during 20s & 30s Day.
To help I've tried to round up some videos.
First, here's the song for arguably the most famous dance of the time, the Charleston.


And here's some vintage footage, recreation and dance instruction:




Lindy Hopping from the 30s & 40s (footage from the 1940s):


And finally a really interested segment on the "Big Apple" Dance of the 30s.