The five exercises of this teaching unit are designed to supplement your students' study of the 1930's by introducing them to the process by which history is written.
The five exercises of this teaching unit are designed to supplement your students' study of the 1930's by introducing them to the process by which history is written.
The Great Depression and The New Dealincludes a booklet containing a teachers guide, a set of reproductions of original documents, and a CD-ROM containing exercise worksheets, digital images of original documents, and sound recordings. Students will study primary sources including personal letters, official forms, newspaper clippings, photographs, and sound recordings drawn from records created during that period. They will gain a sense of the pleasure one derives from this creative process, as well as its limitations, as they practice the historian's skills and learn how those skills can be useful in their daily lives.
Primary source materials are related to two statesIowa, whose character is basically rural, and Ohio, largely urban and industrial. Students will gain a sense of the impact of the New Deal on the nation by observing its role in these two states, which were typical of many across the country.
Other units comprising the Teaching With Documents series are:
The Constitution: Evolution of a Government
The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties
The United States Expands West: 1785-1842
Westward Expansion: 1842-1912
The Civil War: Soldiers and Civilians
The Progressive Years: 1898-1917
World War I: The Home Front
The 1920's
World War II: The Home Front
The United States At War: 1944
The Truman Years: 1945-1953
Peace and Prosperity: 1953-1961
