Students will work in pairs, using primary documents and readings from secondary sources to discover how Harry Truman was a forward thinking individual as shown in road building for Jackson County.
Students will study and analyze letters written to Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depressions while he was implementing the New Deal programming. The students will reflect and compare the Great Depression to our current economic situation.
Students will be analyzing New Deal programs and comparing them to similarly funded government programs we have today. They are to determine who the programs benefit and if they should remain intact.
Students will be creating their own Document-Based-Question. The assignment requires students to research and include primary and secondary documents that are related directly to the question they have written.