Use the RESEARCH CLUES (keywords) with
your PHOTOGRAPH
to do research. You may use library books and the
resources on this page. Take notes using the RESEARCH
NOTES FORM.
Create:
Choose one of the following ways to present
the results of your research, your understanding of
the Great Depression, and your own interpretation of
your photograph. Your project must include at least
five facts from your research.
Write and perform a song
Write a poem
Produce a news broadcast
Write a diary or journal entry as someone
in the photograph
Write a letter from someone in the
photograph
Create a comic strip
Create a conversation which you will
perform
Create something else with approval
of your teachers
Present:
You will present your work to the whole
class. Then the class members and teachers will ask
you questions about your project. Remember that you
must use what you learn in your historical research
to do the project well. Look carefully at the RUBRIC
for this project as you work.
American
Memory "American Memory provides free
and open access through the Internet to written and
spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images,
prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American
experience."
Looking
Back at the Crash of '29 The New York Times looks back at
the Stock Market Crash of 1929, including the front
page news from the 1929 New York Times.
New
Deal Network The site is searchable and includes
over 4,000 images and 600 articles, speeches and letters.
America
in the 1930's From the University of Virginia,
a look at the 1930's through the lenses of its films,
radio programs, literature, journalism, museums, exhibitions,
architecture, art, etc.
