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The Great Depression and The Recession

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Lesson Abstract
Students will write an essay comparing aspects of the Great Depression and today's economic turndown or work cooperatively on an exhibit board.
Description
  • The young people will write an essay comparing aspects of the Great Depression and today's
  • economic turndown-individual assignment
  • There is also an option of cooperative learning to produce an exhibit board. Students will
  • present their work to the class.
Rationale (why are you doing this?)

Students will be able to compare and contrast the Great Depression and today's economic situation.They will be able to put today's recession of 2008/2009 in its proper context.

District, state, or national performance and knowledge standards/goals/skills met

Missouri Standards

2. Continuity and change in the history of Missouri, the United States and the world

6. Relationships of the individual and groups to institutions and cultural traditions

3. reading and evaluating nonfiction works and material (such as biographies, newspapers, technical manuals)

4. writing formally (such as reports, narratives, essays) and informally (such as outlines, notes)

Kansas Standards

Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, developments, and turning points in the era of the Great Depression through World War II in United States history (1930-1945).

1. (A) analyzes the causes and impact of the Great Depression (e.g., overproduction, consumer debt, banking regulation, unequal distribution of wealth).

Benchmark 1: The student writes narrative text using the writing process

3. Writes from experiences and relies on detailed insight, a sense of how events unfold, and how people respond to life and to one another. (Ideas and Content: prewriting, drafting, revising: N,E,T,P)