Depression Era Primary activity

Today we going to examine first hand the effects and people's reactions by looking at photographs, letters to FDR and wife, and looking at songs.

Your assignment is to immerse yourself in the depression era and start to understand what they were going through.

Pictures of the Depression
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/dime/photo.html

1. Choose a couple photographs and describe what is happening in them using the photograph analysis sheet.

Letters to FDR and Mrs. Roosevelt
2. Choose a couple of the letters from the children suffering through depression and answer the questions related to them.

http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er3a.htm

What are they asking for?
How do they describe their home situation? Who is employed? Lost home etc…
List some details to help us understand the letter.
How does the White House respond back?


Songs of the Depression
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/depress.html

3. Choose a song from the list it must be dated to 1932- 1938

You might have to print off the song due to the shortage of time.

For each song -- write down main idea and some details from the lyrics
to get a feel of the mood or what song is describing.

Finally pretend you are the person writing to FDR or Eleanor Roosevelt asking them for help you during the depression to alleviate your hardships. Describe your situation and what suggestions of what you want them to do to help you in your time of need.

New Immigration--09

I. Go on this site http://www.genealogy.com/00000359.html
Read about the new immigrant groups and for each: Italians, Polish, Germans, Chinese, Jews, Irish, and Japanese, etc… given to you on the chart

For each: tell reasons why they came and where they settled. Note any discrimination faced by them.
Group Name
Why they came/when
Where they settled
Discrimination Faced

























II. Ellis Island -- An Interactive Tour— http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm

On your sheet of paper (if you need to), you will need to visit the 8 stations and take notes on the purpose and what happens to the immigrants in each area.

Step I Ellis Island main building--- (don't forget to click on Ellis Island hyper-link)





Step II _______________________




Step III_____________________



Step IV ______________________






Step V ________________________





Step VI ______________________





Step VII _____________________





Step VIII ______________________





III. Looking at City Living: Scroll through the pictures http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/11/11.001j/f01/lectureimages/4/image12.html
Choose a few of the pictures to view then summarize what you see.
1. What were conditions like in the apartment? Describe several things you see. How crowded is it?



2. What did it look like outside on the streets, what were some of the items you seen in many pictures?


3. What was life like for the children, what kind of conditions they live in?

Cvil War documents and Civil War Soldiers

Part One: Research a couple of key events related to the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Battle Address

Part II -- You will be looking at the life of a civil war soldier and their letters from camp and field.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation

Scroll down to the actual transcript.

What year did Lincoln issue the Emancipation?
Who was freed under the Emancipation?
Click back to the first window, and tell me why the Emancipation Proclamation was limited?
Although it did not end slavery why was it so important?


http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm

What happened four score years ago?
What have people sacrificed?


Life of Civil War soldier

http://www.civilwarhome.com/camplife.htm

This site is about the Civil War daily life.

Please write down some information about the daily camp life of a civil war soldier.

Some information to include could be the following but not limited to
---What they did we they were not fighting
---Sleeping quarters
---when they got up and they ate when in camp
--What were they expected to work between drills
What did they do for entertainment?
Other information you found useful--- prostitutes



http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/JANKEJ/CIVILWAR/diaries.htm

Part II:--- Click one of the following accounts read through it and give me some details about the letters.

Letter: Benjamin Franklin Coffman, fought at Gettysburg on side of Confederate
http://ednet.rvc.cc.il.us/~fcoffman/ShenandoahSons/bfcoffman/letter1.html

My dear Josie from the battle of Shiloh—good details
http://civilwartalk.com/forums/mason-dixon-gazette/24478-battle-shiloh-april-6-7th-1862-a-2.html

By CAPT. JOHN G. B. ADAMS. http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/Mass19.html#edno


This is from a battle on gunboat—Ft Charles http://foxweb.marist.edu/users/jwez/dfk/83/18630116DFK.html

Pennsylvania Civil War Diary of James Wren
http://www.pacivilwar.com/diary.html

African American soldier—from Illinois kind of hard to find description of battles he fought in. He mainly recruited and describes a little of camp life
http://www.geocities.com/cindyparkinson/




http://americancivilwar.com/cwstats.html
this gives list of actual casualties during the Civil War
Which day did the most casualities occur number of dead and wounded
Which battles did the most soldiers die?
Which battle did the least amount of soldiers die?


Part Two: You will be given 20 minutes to practice some multiple choice questions on the topics we have covered. This site will provide review for the regent’s type questions you will encounter

http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/ushisgov.cfm


Click on Government then go to Unwritten Constitution

1. What is the unwritten constitution and give a couple of examples




2. Practice some Multiple Choice and record answers

Causes of the Civil War

US History and Gov't


Today you will pretend you are a reporter researching the Causes of the Civil War

Go to the site krugsushistory.blogspot.com

You will be assigned two events, for each you will:

1. Describe the event (year, what happened, who was involved)
2. Describe how the action of people or government led to the Civil War or further separating society
3. Describe how the people of the North reacted and People of the South
4. Was there a peaceful solution


Websites you can choose from


Dred Sott Case
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott

www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/


Kansas Nebraska Act

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/biography6text.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h84.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=661


John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

http://www.wvculture.org/History/jnobrown.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown htm

http://history.furman.edu/benson/docs/jbmenu.htm




Compromise of 1850

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm


http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html




Choose two political cartoons:

web.li.gatech.edu/.../write/civwar/causes.html

http://popartmachine.com/search/Political%20cartoons%201850 lots of cartoons from 1850's



This site has brief summary on the causes between the North and South in economy religion

Need to scan in FORM OF DIFFERENT SOCIETIES


http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html


Political Cartoons

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/SCARTOONS/car1860.html

www.boondocksnet.com/cartoons

This site contains cartoons from the Mexican American War to the Civil War, choose two cartoons from numbers 16-18. Pick two cartoons and tell them about them.




1. Describe the cartoon—(who are the characters in the cartoon)


2. What is the author’s purpose in this cartoon? (who is he demonizing?)

3. What symbols or emotions is he using?