Friday, February 28, 2020

The Great Depression, Day 1 - Class Recap


The New York Stock Exchange. Photo taken in 2009.

Hi everyone,

Welcome to another mini-unit! I enjoyed seeing your 1920s advertising displays in class! We also started learning about the Great Depression and what caused it. Here's what happened in class today:

Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledg ALT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.
Critical Thinking ALT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.

Soundtrack: "Inner City Blues" by Marvin Gaye. Selected for today because of all of the people feeling blue because of the Great Depression. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 2/28/20:
News Brief - Reece
Gallery Walk
Great Depression
Picture Activity

Homework: Read the blog! Make sure you have all work from this semester submitted! Next news brief: Sheinella.

News Brief: Reece had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: WashingtonPost.com - Trump says he can bring in coronavirus experts quickly. The experts say it is not that simple.. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.

Sheinella was assigned to do the next news brief.

Today's Black History Month fact is that Charlotte E. Ray graduated from Howard Law School on February 27, 1872, becoming the first black female lawyer in the United States. Even though our units throughout this month have not focused specifically on Black history, I appreciate that students seemed willing to learn a little bit more each day!

As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):


Gallery Walk: The 1920s advertising assignment was due today in class. Here's a copy of it:


This assignment is based on choosing a product from the last slide from this presentation:

Google Slides - The Business of America in the 1920s PowerPoint


Students were assigned a product in class to create an advertisement for. If you missed class, you can select a product from the last slide to focus on.

In class today, we walked around and "voted" with fake money for what we thought was the best advertisement for a product. I enjoyed this - thanks, everyone!

Great Depression: To continue this unit on the Roaring 20s, we need to see what happened after, so we transitioned to learning about the causes of the Great Depression in class. Here's the PowerPoint presentation that I went through as students took notes:


Please save these notes, as students will be completing a final assessment for this unit using them!

Picture Activity: Next, I had students get up and look around the room to do some primary source analysis of photos from the Great Depression. Here are the photos that I posted around the room:


And here is the assignment that students filled out in class by selecting a few photos to analyze:


Thank you for your effort on this! I know it was a busy day! Let's keep working hard!

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