1. Analyze this Primary Source
1) What do you think this quote is talking about?
2)What does this quote tell us about this era of history?
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed." - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Ch. 19

2. Life During the Great Depression
Unit 7

3. Life during the Great Depression Matters because?
Many people lost their homes and jobs.
Popular entertainment tried to help people forget their worries.
Novelists and artists began to realistically portray life in America

4. Turn and Talk – What does this mean?

5. Were people struggling to get by?
Immigrants began to go back to their country (voluntarily / forced)
Many people lost their jobs (33% unemployment)
Soup kitchens arose to feed jobless
Many lost their homes – shantytowns developed (Hoovervilles)
Hoboes

6. Turn and talk -what do you see?

7. Could things get worse? The Dust Bowl – North Dakota to Texas
Drought left land dry, wind blew dust everywhere Skies were black for miles
Dust buried crops/livestock/ suffocated those caught in storms
50 storms a year during the 1930s
Many lost their farms!

9. Turn and Talk What are your impressions?

10. Ken Burns

11. The Arts and Entertainment Industry
Entertainment was an escape
Radio programs and the movies became really popular
The rise of Soap Operas (sponsors were often laundry soap aimed at women)
Literature began to reflect life around America

12. Some famous 1930s entertainment
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Disney – 1st feature length animated film
Wizard of OZ
Gone with the Wind (9 academy awards, 1st African America to win)
The Green Hornet superhero
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
American Gothic by Grant Wood
Marx Brothers

14. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. attributed to Groucho Marx
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. Groucho Marx
I sent the club a wire stating, “PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.” Groucho Marx

15. Title of the section you read
Today’s Activity
Assignment #1 – Read in your groups and create a word web for each section (include 4 facts for each web {8 total facts between the 2)
Asssignment #2 – Pgs create a haiku for each of the sections describing its main idea.
Remember a haiku is a short poem that has 3 lines (5 syllables in the first 7 syllables in the second and 5 in the third)
E.g. Dust is flying in (5 syllables)
Everywhere I look its there (7 syllables)
Need to go back east (5 syllables)
Title of the section you read
Fact about the section