1. Text connections
Standard: 8.R.RI.03 Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions
between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or
categories).
Samantha Tilford

2. I Can…..
I can explain the distinctions and connections between individuals, ideas, or events in an informational text.

3. Questions:
What are distinctions and connections? How can these be made between people, events, or ideas?
How does this lead to a greater understanding of the text?

4. What is an analogy? Dictionary: A comparison between two things.
Looking for things that are SIMMILAR.
What is the analogy of :
She was quiet as a mouse.

5. Read the selection: Think of what the article is comparing…
The Similarities between the Great Depression and the Current Recession
By JenRubino
On October 29, 1929, America had what is now known as ‘Black Thursday’. Black Thursday was when the stock market crashed. After black Thursday, America’s economy that was already having trouble, started getting worse and worse. People couldn’t pay their loans from banks, people were losing their jobs, losing their homes and many people couldn’t provide for their families.
During the beginning of the Great Depression, and during the aftermath of Black Thursday, President Herbert Hoover tried to reassure America that the economy was stable. But the American people didn’t agree. In the 1932 Presidential Election, Herbert Hoover was defeated, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected by a landslide. After his election, people felt a new feeling of hope and confidence in the country.
Similar to President Obama’s Election. On March 4, 1933, thousands of Americans descended to the Nation’s capital to watch their new President’s inauguration ceremony. After his inauguration speech, people had real confidence that things were going to get better. Shortly after President Roosevelt took office, He developed a new economic plan to end the Depression, The New Deal. Slowly, the New Deal started creating more jobs, and the Economy began to recover. By the end of the 1930’s the United States was out of the Depression.
Print out article for students to have in front of them.

6. Think of what the article is comparing……
There are many similarities between the Great Depression and the Recession we are in now. At the beginning of this recession, Our Stock Market, the ‘DOW’, began having out of control days. One day it even fell 600 points. It was northing like Black Thursday, but it made Americans become very worried. After that, more Americans began losing their jobs, houses were getting foreclosed and a lot of Americans began having to worry about how to provide for their families. Throughout this, President Bush tried to reassure Americans that the economy was stable, but many Americans didn’t agree. Similar to the Great Depression.
On January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated, Americans once again felt that same hope and optimism. Shortly after taking office, on February 17, 09, President Obama signed his Economic Stimulus Package into law.
Many of the things that happened during the Depression, happened to us during this recession, but during the Depression, things were a lot worse. The New Deal worked for America back then, and hopefully the Stimulus Package will work now.
We are not out of the Recession yet, but many polls are starting to show that many Americans believe that we are beginning to come out of the Recession.

7. Use the double bubble map
Use the double bubble map. In the two main circles show the two topics the article discusses then link the connections between them.
Details from 2008
Details from 1929
What is similar
Details from 1929
1929 Depression
What is similar
2008
Recession
Details from 2008
What is similar
Details from 1929
Details from 2008

8. On your own: Read the article then complete the bubble map.
Grades for license. By Gage M. That’s what some schools are saying to there students. The schools that are doing this are requiring them to have a 2.0gpa to get there license. In a attempt to raise grades. Which means if you are having hard time in school you cannot get your license till you can get your grades up. Which brings up question is driving a right or a privilege. If they require people to have a 2.0 then as soon as they get there license then when they get it then they will stop trying. Which means in actuality there grades will decrease. This means that there plan will back fire and make there grades go down instead of what they wanted. That’s one of the reasons this will not work. Some people have parents without jobs or cars and need to be able to get a job to support there family. But if they have low grades they will not be able to do that. Which makes them have to live without money for a while. The big reason they should not make people have to have an 2.0 to have a license is the experience. All of us here the stories from are parents about how fun they had driving. And how when they were driving they felt so cool and all there friends said they were cool its all a big line of cool. Some people might say that if you make someone get a 2.0 to get there license they will do it at all costs. Well there wrong because if someone cannot get good grades or they just don’t want to they will just wait until they turn 18 when they can get it any way. In conclusion all this shows you why not making kids get a 2.0 for there license is the wrong way to go. Like I said some people do not have the means to do anything without there license.

9. Use the bubble map.