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Sign of The Times (http://www.melazerte.com/library/ofmiceandmen/index.htm)

As you journey through the time of the Great Depression, you will collect images and quotes to use in your collage to present one of the themes found in John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men.

  1. Create a folder on your F drive titled Depression and save all your work in this folder.
  2. Start by saving this document in your Depression folder (File, Save as, Web page HTML only). Please put your name AND your partner’s name on this document before you save it.
  3. Follow the directions below to complete this research. Mrs. Peterson will be marking this portion of the project. You must give her the log-in name of the person whose account has the file saved in it.

A. The Great Depression

  1. List 5 points on the causes and impact of the Great Depression. Use an encyclopedia article from the Alberta Learning Online Reference Centre (click on ORC, Grolier Online) to help you.
  2. Collect quotes or images from this site for your collage:
    bulletHow the Depression Affected Children http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er2a.htm
  3. Save this material in your Depression folder.

B. The Plight of Farmers

Collect quotes or images for your collage from the sites listed below. Save this material in your Depression folder.

bulletNew Deal Network Photo Gallery http://newdeal.feri.org/library/7_31.htm
bulletHicks, Mary A., and Willis S. Harrison - “You're Gonna Have Lace Curtains” http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/477.htm

C. The Dust Bowl

  1. Choose one of the eyewitness accounts in the sites below and select some quotes to use for your project.
  2. Copy and paste the quotes below the link where you found them.
  3. Also select some images to use for your collage.
  4. Save all of these in your Depression folder.
bulletThe American Experience Surviving the Dust Bowl An Eyewitness Account http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/sfeature/eyewitness.html 
bulletThe American Experience Surviving the Dust Bowl Interview Transcripts http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/filmmore/reference/interview/index.html
  1. Go to The American Experience Surviving the Dust Bowl Interview Timeline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/timeline/index.html.  Look at the timeline and briefly answer the questions below. Save this material in your Depression folder.
bulletWhat caused the Dustbowl?
bulletWhat and when was Black Sunday?
bulletHow much topsoil blew off the southern plains?
bulletWhat proportion of the population did President Roosevelt estimate was badly affected by the Depression?
bulletHow did the Depression finally end?

D. The Life of Migrant Workers

Collect quotes or images for your collage from the sites below. Save this material in your Depression folder. 

bulletDorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
bulletBerry Picker http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na34302.htm 
bulletJohn Steinbeck “The Harvest Gypsies” http://newdeal.feri.org/steinbeck/hg01.htm 
bulletPea-Pickers' Child http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/35352.htm 
bulletThe American Experience Riding the Rails Tales From the Rails http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/tales.html

E. Unemployment

Collect quotes for your collage from these sites on songs from the Great Depression. Save this material in your Depression folder. 

bulletSongs of the Great Depression http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/cherries.html 
bulletThe 1920's and 1930s' page http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/depress.html 
bulletWoody Guthrie and Songs of the Great Depression http://intranet.rutgers.edu/~clemens/guthrie.html

F. Racial Prejudice

Collect quotes or images for your collage from the sites listed below. Save this material in your Depression folder.

bulletPhotographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photographers http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
bulletRace During the Great Depression http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/race/race.html 
bulletThe American Experience - Riding the Rails - Added Obstacles http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/obstacles.html 

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