World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Brainstorm: What do we already know about WWII, and what do we what/need to know?
• Chart: American Casualties in Major Wars
• Discuss: Popular vs. Unpopular Wars, what's the difference?
• Analyze: Foreign Policy in the 1930s (Historical Hypothetical Question: Could the United States have prevented the Holocaust if acting sooner than 1941?)
• Lit: Begin Maus

Great Depression--New Deal

• Finish: Revise Photo Analysis and Vignette based on feedback
• Analyze: The New Deal using the Living New Deal website
• Assignment/Requirements: The Living New Deal document

Great Depression--Creative Writing!

Take your photo that you analyzed and write a vignette!

Great Depression--Dorothea Lange

• Your task today is to choose a Dorothea Lange photograph to analyze. You can find one at the The History Place.
• Once you have chosen a photograph, open a Google Doc (name and share it with us immediately) and paste the photo in. Then go through the three steps of visual analysis. Each step should be about a paragraph.
• For step three, the "formal" analysis, use the elements and principles of composition to help you.
• For full instructions for this activity, go HERE.

Unit-The 1930s/Great Depression

Agenda:

• View: America The Story of US: Bust
• Introduce FDR: 1st inaugural address/Fireside chats 
• Chapter Attack: American Anthem Ch. 22

Great Depression--John Steinbeck

Agenda:
The Turtle
Breakfast and worksheet

Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• View: the Century series on the 1930s
• Discuss: The Stock Market Crash of 1929. What impact did this event have on the economic conditions of the 1930s?
• President Hoover's response to the economic difficulties. Anthem Chapter 21
• Election of 1932