Great Depression Causes February 20 & 23, 2015

Great Depression Causes Objective: Examine prevailing causes and synthesize information learned. Purpose: Introduction to the unit and learn background content knowledge. Standard(s): 2.13 Historical Thinking Skill: Analyze & Synthesis

Announcements: Semester 2 Discipline Plan & Procedures Use of cellphone / mp3 device: I will grant the use of the cellphone or mp3 device during SPECIFIC segments of the lesson. 1. Warm-up: No! 2. Activity: Foldable’s, in-class work: YES! 3. Lecture Notes, Video Notes, Picture Analysis & Discussion: No! 4. Assessment / Assignment (depends): YES! 5. Closure/Exit Slip: No! Failure to comply with rules or directions WILL result in disciplinary actions. Classroom Behavior & Participation Update: I will both REWARD and PUNISH Classroom Behavior & Participation with points. I will REWARD based on participation, raising hand, discussion, answering questions, and good behavior. I will PUNISH based on classroom disruption, insubordination, off-task behavior, not following rules / procedures, etc. www.Remind.com will be used this semester as a tool to allow me to remind YOU when assignments may be due, upcoming tests, and other general things of importance to the class and YOUR education. This will be a required assignment. Use of Notebooks: Notebooks will be assigned to each and every student and will be color coded based on classroom period. Notebooks will be retrieved prior to the warm-up and returned after the closure. Notebooks DO NOT need to be taken home. They can stay in the classroom. Late Policy: Late assignments will result in ½ off after the due date.

Warm-up: CNN Student News Receive Notebook and write NAME & CLASS PERIOD # on the front (if possible) and back. Write down facts as you watch the video. 1 point = 1 correctly written fact. I need to see at least (a minimum of) 5 facts. More facts may earn additional extra-credit points. What I want to see: Ex. The President was in Europe on Thursday. Give a thing, a place, and a time.

Warm-Up: - 1. Quickwrite: Pretend that you are bank customer who wants to withdraw money (savings) from your bank and you are told by the bank-teller that there is NO money. What might be the cause of such a situation? What options would you have as a customer? 2. Activating Prior Knowledge: Have you ever heard of conditions during the Great Depression? What are your impressions of this time period?

Lecture – Causes to Great Depression 1. The Stock Market Crash of 1929. Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to 191, 122, and finally 381. Black Thursday, Oct. 23, 1929 – Stock prices fell slowly. Investors began to sell & stock prices fell. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929 – 16.4 mill. Shares sold. Stock Market lost all gains of entire year.

2. Bank Failures. Occurs when a bank is unable to meet its obligations to its depositors Bank deposits were uninsured and as banks failed people simply lost their savings. Surviving banks unwilling to create new loans.

3. Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board. After the stock market crash, individuals from all classes stopped buying items. Led to reduction in the number of items made and thus a reduction in workforce. People lost their jobs and unable to keep up with paying for items bought with installment plans.

4. American Economic Policy with Europe. Businesses gradually began to fail. Govt. passed the Smoot- Hawley Tariff in 1930 to protect American companies. Charged high tax for imports leading to less trade between American and foreign countries.

5. Drought Conditions. Massive drought occurred in the Mississippi Valley in 1930; around the same time. Many could not pay their taxes or other debts and had to sell their farms for no profit to themselves. The area of the drought nicknamed: “The Dust Bowl.”

Video: Brain-Pop – The Great Depression

Activity: Crash & Depression Timeline - Begin work on page 738–739 by copying the TIMELINE in your NOTEBOOK. Title: Crash and Depression (1929-1933) Follow-up Questions: What single event led to the Great Depression? What famous building was completed at the height of the Depression? What were conditions like in the Soviet Union in 1932? Closure: (In Notebook) Write a headline for a newspaper about today’s lesson.

Assessment: Ch. 22 – Sec. 1 – Guided Reading -

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