1. Unit 7: The Great Depression

2. Entry Task
Turn in your Chapter 32 & 33 worksheet (if you didn’t already)
Get out your notebook & a writing stick

3. Great Depression Photos
FDR wanted to show the nation the depth of the economic crisis & what the government was doing about it
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was put in charge of the documentary effort, employing some of the country’s most talented photographers
200,000 photos were collected – most comprehensive photographic record of any period of time in our nation’s history
Credit: Burns, Ken. “Photographers of the Dust Bowl.” The Dust Bowl, PBS, 2012

4. 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.
Make a t-chart in your notebook:
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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Postcards from the Past
Project

11. Project Postcards from the Past Character point of view
Color illustration
200 word message about what your character is experiencing
Due Thursday, 2/28