1. Monday, December 16th
Learning Target: Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression by taking notes and analyzing photographs.
Agenda:
Warm-Up
Notes and VIDEO: Causes & Effects of Great Depression
**BREAK**
Great Depression Photo Analysis
Introduce Pamphlet Project
Warm-Up:
What were some results of the stock market crash of 1929?
“The stock market crash resulted in _____________.”

2. What feature of the photograph catches your eye first
What feature of the photograph catches your eye first? Closely examine this photograph. What details do you notice after close examination?
Choose one word to describe what this woman’s emotional state seems to be at the time the photograph was taken.
Who do you think might have taken this photograph, when and why?

4. “Great Depression” Definition:
Copy the following definition in your notes.
A severe economic depression that caused failures of banks, high unemployment, and low productivity that lasted from about

5. Causes of The Great Depression:
The stock market crash
On October 29th, 1929 alone, stocks fell 14 billion dollars. In other words, 14 billion dollars essentially vanished from the economy. YIKES!
This led some banks and people who invested their money into the market to lose everything.

7. Cause #2 Weak Banking Structure
Banks were mostly unregulated (without laws to keep them in check)
Unregulated Banking institutions lent huge amounts of money for stock purchases.
Savings LOST!! GONE!! VANISHED!!

8. “Bank Run” = trying to pull all of your money out before the bank goes under

9. Let’s take a look….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJpLM vgUXe8
“It’s a wonderful life”
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10. Cause #3 Over production & disparity in wealth
OVERPRODUCTION.. oops
supply was outpacing demand
In 1929, the wealthiest 1 percent earned as much as the bottom 42 percent.
Tax policies heavily favored the wealthiest Americans
Fun Fact: 2012: Top 1% earn 19.3% of household income

12. Cause #4:DUST BOWL
The Dust Bowl – A period of severe dust storms that damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US
-A combination of soil erosion, drought, and high winds caused the storms
-Families were forced to move to find work , oakies

13. Cause 4
                                                            

15. A Dust Storm in Eastern Colorado

16. Another Dust Storm

17. Effects of the Great Depression:
25% unemployment! (up from 3% in early 1929)
9,000 banks closed
Government started taking a more active role in the economy
250,000 children (mostly teens) riding the rails!

18. A family in a “lean-to” tent

19. Another mother and her child living in a lean-to tent

20. Great Depression Photo Analysis:
In your notes, you will analyze three photographs of your choosing.
What is happening in this picture?
If there are people in the photo:
How are they dressed?
What can you infer from the expression on their faces and their posture?
If there are no people in the photo:
Describe the condition of any man-made objects and/or environmental characteristics?
What problems or frustrations are suggested by this image?
In your opinion, what should be the appropriate response to the problem?

21. Pamphlet Project:
You will create a pamphlet the covers the Great Depression and the New Deal (the government’s response to the Great Depression)
It will include:
Causes of the Great Depression
Effects of the Great Depression (What was life like?)
Information about the New Deal:
What was it?
What did it aim to change?
Is this the right response? Why or why not?
Lastly Present Day Picture Hand drawn or taken #myamerica

22. Exit Note: Answer the following question on a scratch sheet of paper:
If people are out of work (retired, disabled, or otherwise unable to find work), should they receive money from the government (which comes from tax money)? Why or why not?