New Deal

Technology based, individual or partner analysis of a primary source, or use as a station on an Interactive board if students are doing several different activities at the same time.

Students will study the New Deal and The Great Depression.

At the end of the lesson on the New Deal, the students will be assigned one of the following individuals (Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alf Landon, Huey P. Long, and Father Charles Coughlin) to research views on the New Deal.

Students will study and analyze letters written to Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depressions while he was implementing the New Deal programming. The students will reflect and compare the Great Depression to our current economic situation.

Students will be analyzing New Deal programs and comparing them to similarly funded government programs we have today. They are to determine who the programs benefit and if they should remain intact.