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Life during the Great Depression

Life during the Great Depression. Monique Stroud. Day One: Stock Market Crash of 1929. Using the website http://blacktuesday.info and other library resources, students will be broken into four groups to research information about the stock market crash.

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Life during the Great Depression

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  1. Life during the Great Depression Monique Stroud

  2. Day One: Stock Market Crash of 1929 • Using the website http://blacktuesday.info and other library resources, students will be broken into four groups to research information about the stock market crash. • Each group will also be given one of these following terms: Balance of payment, balance of trade, bill lading, bounced check to research.

  3. Day Two: Stock Market Crash Continued… • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLnDPntfNFw&feature=player_embedded • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPnAPzeIB8s&feature=player_embedded • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCX-6rmBA4I&feature=player_embedded • Discuss videos; what people believed about stocks and what was really happening

  4. Day Three: Respond to Rose • Read excerpts from Rose’s Journal • Respond to one of her entries

  5. Day 4: Dust Bowl Read Aloud book entitled The Dust Bowl by David Booth Survival Writing Activity

  6. Day Five: A Day in the Life of… • Great Depression Simulation • Debrief experience

  7. All Resources • http://blacktuesday.info • Black Tuesday(Spotlight on American History) by Barbara Feinberg • http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_02/lancaster102102.html(website on Black Tuesday) • The Dust Bowlby David Booth • Children of the Dust Days by Karen Mueller Coombs • Rose’s Journal by Marissa Moss • http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-54463_18670_18793-53511--,00.html (Personal Accounts of people during the Great Depression) • http://www.greeneview.k12.oh.us/high%20school/NewsReleases%2006-07/GreatDepression.html (Great Depression Simulation description)

  8. The End!

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