The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC. The cloak apparently is meant to conceal his wheelchair. Photo taken in 2010.
NOTE: I was out of the building today, in France for a memorial service for my wife's grandfather. This blog post is what I hoped happened in class with Ms. Mak, my guest teacher.
Hi everyone,
It's that time again - we are nearing the end of the combined Roaring 20s/Great Depression units and thus, the unit final project (which is due next Friday). Here's what happened in class today:
It's that time again - we are nearing the end of the combined Roaring 20s/Great Depression units and thus, the unit final project (which is due next Friday). Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
AGENDA 3/5/20:
News Brief - Ethan
FDR
Impact of New Deal
Unit Project
News Brief: Ethan had the news brief today and selected an article to talk about in class. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Someone in class was assigned to do the next news brief.
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):
Someone in class was assigned to do the next news brief.
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):
FDR: To continue our look at the Great Depression, students watched this video profile of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), who had an enormous impact on America:
Hopefully this helped in understanding who FDR was and what was happening during his tenure as president (the longest tenure in United States history - he is the only President to be elected 4 (or 3!) times)!
Impact of the New Deal: The "New Deal" is a name for a variety of government programs and agencies created under FDR to help combat the Great Depression. Last class, we learned about some of them via this note sheet:
Students worked with groups on each of the programs, then we went through them all last class. Today, students took notes (though we gave most of them in a pre-printed format) on this presentation:
Here's the notesheet that was passed out in class (hopefully a welcome relief for many students, as we have taken a fair amount of notes during this unit):
Hopefully this is all making sense in terms of what the New Deal was and how it tried to improve the economy.
Unit Final Project: I introduced this last class - this is final project for the combined Roaring 20s/Great Depression Unit, which is viewable here (it is also assigned on Google Classroom):
This project involves a lot of student choice over the physical product, as well as a write up between 850-1000 words.
The rest of the class was quiet work time for this assignment - the next few classes will follow this same pattern of a bit of new content, then work time. Please be sure to email me if you have any questions and I will try to get back to you ASAP!
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