1. List 4 causes of the Great Depression. Use your notes from yesterday!
DO NOW
List 4 causes of the Great Depression. Use your notes from yesterday!

2. Complete the following assignment on your iPad BEFORE we go to lunch:
DO NOW – 5th Period
Complete the following assignment on your iPad BEFORE we go to lunch:
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3. Learning Targets EQ LT POU (I’ll know I’ve got it when…)
What was life like during the Great Depression? LT
Identify hardships faced by Americans during the Great Depression.
Describe life in the Dust Bowl during the 1930s.
POU (I’ll know I’ve got it when…)
I can compose a letter to President Herbert Hoover describing life during the Great Depression.

4. The Cornell Method Method Advantages
The Cornell method provides a systematic format for condensing and organizing notes without laborious recopying. After writing the notes in the main space, use the left-hand space to label each idea and detail with a key word or "cue."
Method
Rule your paper with a 2 inch margin on the left leaving a six-inch area on the right in which to make notes. During class, take down information in the six-inch area. When the instructor moves to a new point, skip a few lines. After class, complete phrases and sentences as much as possible. For every significant bit of information, write a cue in the left margin. To review, cover your notes with a card, leaving the cues exposed. Say the cue out loud, then say as much as you can of the material underneath the card. When you have said as much as you can, move the card and see if what you said matches what is written. If you can say it, you know it.
Advantages
Organized and systematic for recording and reviewing notes. Easy format for pulling out major concept and ideas. Simple and efficient. Saves time and effort. "Do-it-right-in-the-first-place system.”

5. Life in the Great Depression
April 8, 2014

6. HARDSHIPS DURING DEPRESSION
The Great Depression brought hardship, homelessness, and hunger to millions
Across the country, people lost their jobs and their homes
Some built makeshifts shacks out of scrap material
Before long whole shantytowns (sometimes called Hoovervilles in mock reference to the president) sprung up

7. SOUP KITCHENS
One of the common features of urban areas during the era were soup kitchens and bread lines
Soup kitchens and bread lines offered free or low-cost food for people
Unemployed men wait in line for food – this particular soup kitchen was sponsored by Al Capone

8. CONDITIONS FOR MINORITIES
Conditions for African Americans and Latinos were especially difficult
Unemployment was the highest among minorities and their pay was the lowest
Increased violence (24 lynchings in 1933 alone)
Many Mexicans were “encouraged” to return to their homeland
As conditions deteriorated, violence against blacks increased

9. RURAL LIFE DURING THE DEPRESSION
While the Depression was difficult for everyone, farmers did have one advantage; they could grow food for their families
Thousands of farmers, however, lost their land
Many turned to tenant farming and barely scraped out a living
Between almost ½ million farmers lost their land

10. THE DUST BOWL
A severe drought gripped the Great Plains in the early 1930s
Wind scattered the topsoil, exposing sand and grit
The resulting dust traveled hundreds of miles
One storm in 1934 picked up millions of tons of dust from the Plains and carried it to the East Coast
Kansas Farmer, 1933

11. Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas - 1934

12. Storm approaching Elkhart, Kansas in 1937

13. Dust buried cars and wagons in South Dakota in 1936

15. Boy covers his mouth to avoid dust, 1935
HARDEST HIT REGIONS
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado were the hardest hit regions during the Dust Bowl
Many farmers migrated to California and other Pacific Coast states
Boy covers his mouth to avoid dust, 1935

16. Photographer Dorothea Lange captures a family headed west to escape the dust storms

18. HOBOES TRAVEL AMERICA
The 1930s created the term “hoboes” to describe poor drifters
300,000 transients – or hoboes – hitched rides around the country on trains and slept under bridges (thousands were teenagers)
Injuries and death was common on railroad property; over 50,000 people were hurt or killed

19. EFFECTS OF DEPRESSION
Suicide rate rose more than 30% between
Alcoholism rose sharply in urban areas
Three times as many people were admitted to state mental hospitals as in normal times
Many people showed great kindness to strangers
Additionally, many people developed habits of savings & thriftiness

20. ASSIGNMENT Materials:
Notebook paper
Requirements:
Dated between 1929 and 1933
At least 2 paragraphs
Compose a letter to President Herbert Hoover explaining “your” hardships during the Great Depression.
Include information from today, but make it your own!