1. Write down the following prompts / questions in notebooks, leaving two lines between preparing for a video clip about 1929 - 1935 “Stormy Weather”: (1) People’s responses to beginning of the Great Depression … (2) Percentage of mortgages in default … (3) The old faith of self-reliance … (4) National government in 1930 … (5) How did people forget their troubles? (6) Why were our nation’s leader’s scared? (7) 100,000 American during the 1930’s went to …

2. The Big Questions of the Great Depression Unit (1) What did American culture look like in the 1920’s, and what aspects of American life helped to cause the Great Depression? (2) What caused the Great Depression? (3) What was life like during the Great Depression? (4) What was the response of the “New Deal” to the crisis of the Depression? (5) How does the legacy of the “New Deal” still affect American society today?

3. Station One “Migrant Mother”

4. Station Two “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”

5. Station Three “Dust Bowl Images”

6. Station Four “Letters to the President”

7. Living During the Great Depression Effects upon families … – (men, women, children) School closures … Rail car accidents …

8. Family Life in the Great Depression Fertility Rates (per 100,000 women aged 15-44) - 1928: 93.8 - 1929: 89.3 - 1930: 89.2 - 1931: 84.6 - 1932: 81.7 - 1933: 76.3 - 1934: 78.5 - 1935: 77.2 - 1936: 75.8 - 1937: 77.1 - 1938: 79.1 - 1939: 77.6 - 1940: 79.9 - 1941: 83.4 - 1942: 91.5 - 1943: 94.3

9. Family Life in the Great Depression Average divorce rate, (per 1,000 people) - 1920-1929: 1.6 - 1930-33: 1.4 - 1934-39: 1.8 - 1940-46: 2.8 - 1947-64: 2.5

10. Write down the following prompts / questions in notebooks, leaving two lines between preparing for a video clip about 1929 - 1935 “Stormy Weather”: (1) People’s responses to beginning of the Great Depression … (2) Percentage of mortgages in default … (3) The old faith of self-reliance … (4) National government in 1930 … (5) How did people forget their troubles? (6) Why were our nation’s leader’s scared? (7) 100,000 American during the 1930’s went to …