Life in the New Deal Era Chapter 15, Section 3
Topic: Life in the New Deal Era Objective: Students will be able to analyze photos taken to describe life in the New Deal era HW: (1) Current Events online forum (2) Great Depression Project due April 28 th for sections 1, 2, & 3 and April 19 th for section 4
` The Dust Bowl and Migration Dust Bowl: drought stricken area in Great Plains -50 million acres
CCC planted 217 million trees from Texas to Canada
“Promise Land”: Cali, many left drought to find jobs “Okies” migrants from Oklahoma
The Dust Bowl – America the Story of Us
Federal Project Number One Roosevelt encouraged photographers to expose the suffering in America Migrant Mother: famous photograph
Class Activity… Complete New Deal Picture activity You may work in groups to… Analyze New Deal pictures and answer document based questions on the pictures and the information we have been learning about in the New Deal Chapter.