Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The social, political, and economic conditions from the 1920s through the Great Depression.
- Social and political factors and policies that were influenced by and that contributed to the deepening crisis during the Great Depression.
- Economic factors and policies that contributed to the beginning of the Great Depression and the deepening crisis as the Great Depression continued in the United States and globally, including the effects of overproduction, stock market speculation, restrictive monetary policies, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
- The ways authors' works during the Great Depression were influenced by and influenced the social, political, and economic realities of the time.
- The impact of the Great Depression on class, region, race, and gender relations during the time period of the 1920s to the 1940s.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Analyze the social, political, and economic conditions of a specific historical period.
- Determine and evaluate the factors that contributed to a specific historical period.
- Evaluate works of art and literature from a specific time period in order to determine their impact.
- Determine central ideas of primary and secondary sources.
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There were various political, social and economic conditions that contributed to the Great Depression.
Vocabulary
- assess
- identify
- analyze
- Great Depression
- stock market crash
- overproduction
- speculation
- Smoot-Haley Tariff Act
- John Steinbeck
- William Faulkner
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Bonus Army
- Hoovervilles
- Dust Bowl
- Dorothea Lange
- Jim Crow
- Japanese Internment
- Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
