1. Write a paragraph on the qualities of a good friend
Write a paragraph on the qualities of a good friend. Have a topic sentence and at least two strong qualities and examples for those qualities. (20 minutes)

2. 1. Study the picture for one minute.
2. Write down what is your first overall impression of this picture?
3. What's going on in the picture? Who are the people & what are they doing?
What might be the function of the objects?
4. What can you infer from this picture about the time period, the economic times, the people?

3. 1. Study the picture for one minute.
2. Write down what is your first overall impression of this picture?
3. What's going on in the picture? Who are the people & what are they doing?
What might be the function of the objects?
4. What can you infer from this picture about the time period, the economic times, the people?

4. 1. Study the picture for one minute.
2. Write down what is your first overall impression of this picture?
3. What's going on in the picture? Who are the people & what are they doing?
What might be the function of the objects?
4. What can you infer from this picture about the time period, the economic times, the people?

6. 1. Study the picture for one minute.
2. Write down what is your first overall impression of this picture?
3. What's going on in the picture? Who are the people & what are they doing?
What might be the function of the objects?
4. What can you infer from this picture about the time period, the economic times, the people?

7. Videos on The Great Depression
depression/videos#the-great-depression

8. Songs of the 30’s Brother, Can you Spare a Dime by Bing Crosby
Explain the subject of the song
How does the beat of the song reflect the subject
Why might this have been a popular song
Sing, Sing, Sing by Bennie Goodman
How does the beat of this song differ from the other?
Why might this appeal to the public and have been a popular song despite what we have talked about so far?

9. Movies
Swing Time (1936)
What does this scene tell us about the type of movies people may have liked to see?
What about this content would be appealing to the public?

10. What inferences can you make about the main characters of this book based on the pictures you just saw?
Farmer and sons, dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, Photographer: Arthur Rothstein. The drought that helped cripple agriculture in the Great Depression was the worst in the climatological history of the country. By 1934 it had desiccated the Great Plains, from North Dakota to Texas, from the Mississippi River Valley to the Rockies. Vast dust storms swept the region
Philipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California, Photographer: Dorothea Lange. In order to maximize their ability to exploit farm workers, California employers recruited from China, Japan, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the American south, and Europe.
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," destitute in a pea picker's camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute. By the end of the decade there were still 4 million migrants on the road.