1. Students will use information from Handouts 2. 1 and 2
Students will use information from Handouts 2.1 and 2.2 to construct a newsletter that reflects what they have learned about the causes of the Great Depression. Included in each newsletter students will complete two of the following:
• a one-page, double-spaced newspaper article on the factors that contributed to the Great Depression, including a newspaper-like title for the article;
• a poem that expresses what life was like during the Great Depression;
• lyrics to a song that might be performed during the Great Depression to express conditions of the time;
• a letter to the editor expressing a specified concern about the economy or an economic problem and the writer’s recommendation of a solution for that problem; or
• a comic strip that might be published in the newspaper during the Great Depression.