Weekly Agenda April 25-29

Monday & Tuesday
-Check Annotations
-In the News Presentations
-Review "New Deal Arts" notes from Friday before break
--what is socialism?
-Hand back unit tests
-Review "New Deal" documents
--Poster Assignment for New Deal Topics
--brainstorming
HW Record at least one response to discussion topics on the 1930's on turnitin.com. Due May 5th

Wednesday
Official Research Assignment
Poster Work

Thursday & Friday
Complete and Present Posters
Continue Map Work
-how does the New Deal begin to shape how America looks
Jazz documentary excerpts
HW Begin collecting primary sources for research paper.

Weekly Agenda April 4-8

1930's

Monday & Tuesday

Where Hoover Fails, Roosevelt succeeds:

-notes and workbook on

• Roosevelt's road to office
• 100 days
• New Deal

HW Bring 2 possible topics into class for discussion and sharing. Share what inspired the topic, a point in history, a modern event, an special interest, etc. And, share what places one could go to get information.

Wednesday
New Deal

• Who is against it?
• Social Security Definition
• Primary Sources and Different Perspectives

Thursday & Friday
Review Topics and Research Paper
Complete Social Security Questions
New Deal and The Arts

SPRING BREAK
RESEARCH PAPER:
Find one primary source and one secondary source for your topic. Annotate and write an annotation. Bring in MLA-formatted, typed, annotations for each source.

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Weekly Agenda March 28-April 1

1930s: The Great Depression

Monday
1920s Unit Test

Tuesday-Wednesday
Map and Geography
-label states and events in the '30s
What leads to it?
Farming: higher yields are not matched by higher demand

• technological improvements increased costs of farming
• WWI had encouraged a boom in production, not sustainable without war

Andrew Mellon's Policies

• hired by Hoover, Mellon believed that government should run like a business
• his goals in 1921 was to; balance the budget, reduce gov't debt, and cut taxes
• argued that lower taxes allowed money to flow more freely and allowed the gov't to collect more taxes (AV 457)
• taxes were reduced from 4% federal income tax to .5% for the average American; the wealthiest paid a high of 73% and a low of 25%
• Mellon's policies would ultimately contribute to the stock market crash of 1929

Herbert Hoover is elected president in 1928

• supported Prohibition
• former head of Food Admin. during WWI and Secretary of Commerce
• a Quaker; a Republican
  
• landslide victory

Stock Market

• a system of buying and selling companies
• rising stock prices is known as a bull market
• margin is when the investor pays a low down payment (takes a loan from stockbroker)
• only safe in a bull market
• brokers could issue a margin call to demand repayment; hence, if prices fell, investors would sell quickly to be able to repay loans
• pricing became 'sketchy' as a stocks true value was inflated by investor's bids; some tried to make a fortune overnight and engaged in speculation
• Great Crash led to nationwide bank failures: people sold of their holding quickly, prices slipped, causing more to sell and so forth.
• October 29th, Black Tuesday: prices took their steepest dive yet. Crash undermined America's ability to hold it together while other weaknesses became apparent
• banks had loaned money to stock speculators; invested depositor's money in stock; banks lost a lot and thus cut back on loans (AV 472)

Worksheet: Causes of the Great Depression

Thursday & Friday
HW due Friday: click on Dorothea Lange picture. Choose a picture and complete a visual analysis interpretation. Do not do "Migrant Mother."
Science behind the "dust bowl"
DUSTBOWL

• In the Great Plains farmers had plowed lands, uprooted wild grasses, and planted wheat instead.
  
• fall of prices in 1920's left fields uncultivated, drought exacerbates: no rainfall, no roots= soil dries to dust
• 1932: drought sweeps the land
  
• winds whip up dust and bury crops, livestock, and farmhouses
• 1934: dust storm destroys 300 acres
  
• dust storms grow: 22'' in 1934 and 72'' in 1937
  
• "withered fields" were mortgaged, turned over to banks. Penniless families head west
• many from Oklahoma- known as "okies" (derogatory)
  
• idealized California as a kind of Eden on earth
• disappointed; a lot of competition from jobs
• homeless and impoverished families lived in Hoovervilles (shacks on unused land)

Thursday we will look at Dorothea Lange's Biography and consider her photograph "Migrant Mother." Complete a practice visual analysis and share as a class.

The Arts
Hoover Responds

Weekly Agenda March 21-25

1920's: Politics

Monday & Tuesday
Flapper Poster Group Work
-work and present on Tuesday?
Review Politics in the 20's
-Harding
-Coolidge
-Hoover
HW Begin to fill out Study Guide for test on Friday

Wednesday & Thursday
Study Groups
-review standards

Friday
Unit Test

NEXT
11.6 Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.
1.
Describe the monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s.
2.
Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.
3.
Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California.
4.
Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies
and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy development
projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam).
5.
Trace the advances and retreats of organized labor, from the creation of the American
Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers.