The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence.
The
Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history of the Great Depression & New Deal. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.
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The Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20 documents in the
Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources Pack are:
1. Photograph of a crowd outside the New York Stock Exchange after the crash - 1929
2. Photograph of unemployed men waiting outside a soup kitchen in Chicago - February 1931
3. Photograph of a crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression - 1931
4. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt talking to a farmer in Warm Springs, Georgia - 1932
5. Photograph of workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps constructing a road - 1933
6. Letter regarding the funding for the Civilian Conservation Corps - April 5, 1933
7. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935 - August 14, 1935
8. Photograph of a "Hoover wagon" - used by farmers to save on gasoline - 1935
9. Photograph of Oklahoma Dust Bowl refugees - San Fernando, California - June 1935
10. Photograph of Florence Thompson with several of her children during the Dust Bowl - entitled "Migrant Mother" - February 1936
11. Photograph of a farmer and his sons walking in a dust storm - Cimarron County, Oklahoma - April 1936
12. Photograph of buried machinery in Dallas, South Dakota, during the Dust Bowl - May 13, 1936
13. Photograph of a poor mother and her children during the Great Depression - Elm Grove, California - August 1936
14. Photograph of construction on the Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon - Public Works Administration project - October 24, 1936
15. Poster advertising Social Security benefits - 1938
16. Photograph of William Gropper's "Construction of a Dam" mural - 1939
17. Photograph of an anti-relief protest sign near Davenport, Iowa - 1940
18. Advertisement for the Workers Service Program in Rockford, Illinois - part of the Work Project Administration - 1941
19. Photograph of a girl pumping water from a well that is her town's sole water supply - project of the Tennessee Valley Authority - 1942
20. Map of the Tennessee Valley Authority - 1942
Your students will:
• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations.
• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.