Do a Google image search for “Great Depression”
1. What is the feeling you get of life in 1930's America?
2. Why do you think this is the most famous picture from the Depression?
1. What is the feeling you get of life in 1930's America?
2. Why do you think this is the most famous picture from the Depression?
Go to Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930s:
-Click on The Depression link on the left.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/Jukebox/front.html
3. Name the title of a famous song.
Digital History: http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er3a.htm
4. Read two of the letters from children to the White House. Then imagine yourself in a similar situation. Write a realistic short letter to President or Mrs. Roosevelt asking for a specific kind of help.
-Click on The Depression link on the left.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/Jukebox/front.html
3. Name the title of a famous song.
Digital History: http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er3a.htm
4. Read two of the letters from children to the White House. Then imagine yourself in a similar situation. Write a realistic short letter to President or Mrs. Roosevelt asking for a specific kind of help.