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Description
OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will analyze three primary source excerpts about the Great Depression’s effect on Beaumont to make observations, inferences, and predictions about the next unit.
LESSON TIME
This lesson will take approximately 45 - 60 minutes.
Exact times may vary based on the specific needs of individual classes.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What major event occurred in the U.S. on October 29, 1939, and what effect did it have on the majority of Americans? How did this event shape the defining characteristics of the next era during the Great Depression?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Sources
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
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This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question for the lesson.
It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
Student Activities
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Warm-up & Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students will view a line graph of unemployment rates from 1905 to 1935. They make observations about the data, and predictions about what they believe they are likely to see in the next unit, the Great Depression, based on the data.
In this exit ticket, students will use two sentence stems to respond to a prompt asking them to compare the defining characteristics of the Age of Oil to the Great Depression.
The Warm-up and Exit Ticket document includes two warm-ups on the front of the page and two exit tickets on the back of the page. This formatting reduces the number of copies needed, as teachers will cut each printed page in half. Each student will receive a half-page with the warm-up on the front and the exit on the back.
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Grade Level Work
In this printable assignment, students will answer short, constructed response questions, multiple-choice, and multi-select questions to explain and summarize main ideas and supporting evidence related to the Great Depression. Students make inferences and predictions about the next era based on the texts. Students compare the defining features of the Age of Oil to those of the Great Depression.
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In this printable assignment, students will answer short, constructed response questions with sentence stems and response options, and multiple-choice and multi-select questions with one or more answer option eliminated to explain and summarize main ideas and supporting evidence related to the Great Depression. Students make inferences and predictions about the next era based on the texts. Students compare the defining features of the Age of Oil to those of the Great Depression.
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In this printable assignment, students will answer short, constructed response questions to explain and summarize main ideas and supporting evidence related to the Great Depression. Students make inferences and predictions about the next era based on the texts. Students compare the defining features of the Age of Oil to those of the Great Depression.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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Beaumont, Texas, and the Great Depression
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Crowd in front of the Strand Theater, Port Arthur, 1926
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