1. Faith Ringgold Tar Beach New York: Crown Publishers, 1991. Tar Beach Objective: To understand the life and concerns of people who lived during the Great Depression. Samantha Champion PUT THE BOOK COVER HERE Book Summary: The story is about an eight year-old girl named Cassie Louise Lightfoot. Cassie lives in Harlem during the Great Depression. Cassie has a dream that she is free to go anywhere she wants. On the roof-top of her apartment building, “Tar Beach,” her dream comes true. Hyperlinks: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/04/12_great-depression.html http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_subj.html

2. Now and Then Compare and Contrast Compare Cassie’s life to your life. Use a Venn Diagram to describe the differences and similarities.

3. Ask Mrs. Roosevelt Listen to several original letters written by children of the Great Depression. Then, pretend to be a child in the Depression Era. Write a letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, asking her for your family’s needs. Eleanor Roosevelt at Works Progress Administration site in Des Moines, Iowa 1936 http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

4. What questions do you have? Interviewing FDR, Mrs. Roosevelt, or Cassie Lightfoot Imagine that you are going to interview someone from the Great Depression. What questions would you ask? Write at least three questions for this person. Listen to the 12/13/36 FDR in Charleston, South Carolina

5. South Carolina Standards 5-4.2 Summarize the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, including economic weakness, unemployment, failed banks and businesses, and migration from rural areas. 5-4.3 Explain the immediate and lasting effect on American workers caused by innovations of the New Deal, including the Social Security Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Civilian Conservation Corps. Indicators: Students will discuss economic weakness and unemployment during the Great Depression and how it affected the people that lived during the Great Depression.

6. Resources: Pictures of Roosevelt: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Photographs retrieved from the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html More Facts about the Great Depression: http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/04/12_great-depression.html Fun site for children: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_subj.html