1. DO NOW- Using your homework from last night (Chapter 22, Section 2 in your books) prepare to interview a survivor of the Great Depression. Your interview should be at least 16, in- depth questions designed to get at the heart of what it was like to survive such a difficult period in our history. Also designate who (i.e. business man, teen-age kid, mother of 4, etc.) you would like to interview on the topic. AGENDA- Do-Now Songs, Lyrics, & Video Clips Notes Wednesday, February 4 th HOMEWORK CURRENT EVENT Due Friday TOPIC: Depression 2.0? Find an article relating our current financial crisis to the Great Depression (1930’s era) Write a 2 paragraph summary explaining how today is or isn’t like History repeating, according to your article. Note: If you cannot find an article comparing today to the 1930’s, do the “relating” part, yourself.

2. Music & Video Clips Brother can you spare a dime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU Woody Guthrie Montage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7mBEXaMNQ&feature=related Dust Storm Experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO722_ORi58

5. Questions to ponder ► How did poverty spread during the Great Depression? ► What social problems were caused? ► How did some struggle to survive hard times?

6. And they thought it wouldn’t last… ► Hard times continue, and spread  Those who never dreamed of asking for help, did  Banks closed, savings lost  Jobs lost, no money for rent  Eviction and homelessness the next step

10. The Fire This Time Time Magazine’s Special Report on the California wildfires of October 2007 The Dust Bowl 1930’s Era Natural Disaster

11. An ill wind Pepperdine University student Emily Roth, far left, and friend Michael Richards shield themselves from heavy ash and smoke that blanketed the school’s Malibu, Calif. Campus and caused classes to be cancelled for two days. 2007. (Time Magazine) Inset photo: The dust is too much for this farmer's son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. 1936. (Library of Congress)

12. Fleeing with their lives Santa Ana, CA, October 22, 2007 - The smoke from the fire is drifting South. Visibility dropped to about 1/4 mile with ash raining down like a light snow flurry. The Sun was blocked out and only an orange glow lit the sky. A black blizzard over Prowers Co., Colorado, 1937. (Western History Collection, University of Oklahoma)

13. Homes Smoke from the wildfire approaches Carlsbad, California. Photo Date: October 22, 2007 Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas Photo Date: April 18, 1935

14. A view from above Oct. 21, 2006 Smoke rises from a wildfire driven by powerful winds in the Malibu Hills. Gale-force winds blowing from the desert fan the inferno and spread the smoke dozens of miles out to sea. Aerial view of the beginning of a dust storm over the prairie lands east of Denver. Northerly winds are removing topsoil and then the clouds of dust were raised as high as 16,000 feet by colliding southerly winds. Prevailing west winds then carried some of the dust as far east as the Atlantic coast. In: "Monthly Weather Review," June 1936.

15. Family February, 1936, Nipomo, California. The Dust Bowl and drought devastated some farm families in the early 1930's, such as this 32 year old mother of seven. "Migrant Mother", black and white photograph by Dorthea Lange, (Library of Congress) Oct. 21, 2007: Andrea Mock evacuates her home with her two scared children and husband as the fires near their home in Irvine, California

16. Now read the article “The Fire This Time” from Time Magazine’s November 5, 2007 issue and with a partner, complete the reading guide. If you finish early, begin brainstorming the discussion questions with your partner, we will go over these as a class.