1. Unit 8: The Great Depression
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2. Entry Task (15 min) The Human Toll
Answer the questions in your notebook.
Objective: Understand how the Great Depression affected the lives of Americans.

3. 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?

4. A homeless family walks from Phoenix to San Diego (354 mi), looking for work; shown here on Highway 99 in CA, 1930.

5. A mother & her children, Elm Grove, CA, 1936.

6. Evicted sharecroppers by the side of the road.
Parkin, AL

7. Men at a soup kitchen in Washington, D.C., 1936.

8. “Migrant Mother”
A mother with her three children in CA