Unit 8: The Great Depression 3.1.17
Entry Task (15 min) The Human Toll Answer the questions in your notebook. Objective: Understand how the Great Depression affected the lives of Americans.
Image analysis Make a t-chart in your notebook: Image Thoughts Dorothea Lange: A photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced the genre of documentary photography. Image Thoughts Write a short description of the image. What do you see? What does this image tell us about the Great Depression? What can we learn from it?
A homeless family walks from Phoenix to San Diego (354 mi), looking for work; shown here on Highway 99 in CA, 1930.
A mother & her children, Elm Grove, CA, 1936.
Evicted sharecroppers by the side of the road. Parkin, AL. 1936.
Men at a soup kitchen in Washington, D.C., 1936.
“Migrant Mother” A mother with her three children in CA. 1936.