May 8-12

Classes were in different places, and so a summary of the week is the best I can offer.

Students had time to complete readings about the depression and about the New Deal.

Students worked on organizing the information, and ensuring that they had enough knowledge to complete the summative assessment for the 1920s-1930s unit.

Students received the following summative assessment assignment; it is due Monday/Tuesday 22/23 May:

Living in the USA

Depression and The New Deal Unit Summative Assessment

By no means would all historians agree that similarities between the Roaring 1920s and the history leading up to Black Thursday in 1929 and the Great Depression over the next decade are cause for alarm. History is complex, and absent access to parallel universes historians can only argue about similarities and causalities.

That being said, the two decades we have just studied do provide interesting comparisons to recent history. To show knowledge and understanding of this period you are to create an analytical chart that lists or shows at least ten (10) key events, trends, developments, or policies, and compares or contrasts them with events from your lifetime.

The format of this chart or visual is up to you. But MUST include annotations of the comparisons. So, for example if you wished to compare Charlie Chaplin to the most popular entertainer of your life you could indicate the Chaplin was a huge star of (mostly) silent films; today the entire world waits for Puddles Piddy Party’s next Youtube cover of a classic pop song.

Your selection of entries on the chart should show knowledge across the twenty-year period, and include economic, historical, and cultural references. You should show knowledge of the Roaring 20s; the Great Depression; and the New Deal.

This project is due May 22^nd/ 23^rd; today is the only “in-class” day we will focus on the project.

Notes:

1920s & 1930s	Notes for Annotations	My Lifetime