The Great Depression

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The Great Depression

• A WebQuest
• for English 11-3
• Mrs. Lafferty and Ms. Thomann

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What the heck is this all about?

• Our class will be reading Out of the Dust, by
  Karen Hesse. The purpose of this WebQuest is to
  help us become familiar with the time period and
  setting of the novel.
• The pictures, facts and information you find will
  be used later in the term for a timeline project
  as a capstone project for the novel.

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Some Background about The Great Depression. . .

• This was a period in Americas history during the
  1930s. It falls right between the stock market
  crash of 1927 and World War II. When people lost
  faith in what they had invested in and began to
  sell their stocks, suddenly there was not enough
  money to back many businesses. People were out
  of work all over the country.

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More Background about The Great Depression. . .

• The Great Depression refers to the economy being
  depressed, not the mood of the people during the
  time. Our economy was not growing. When World
  War II began, it stimulated economic growth and
  ended the depression.

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Things to think about

• During The Great Depression
• 9,000 banks went out of business
• 9 million savings accounts were wiped out.
• Wages dropped by 60
• About 15 million people were unemployed

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How did this affect farmers?

• Farmers had more food than they could sell, as
  people lost jobs, they had no money to buy the
  farmers crops.
• The federal government offered many farmers money
  NOT to plant crops in the hopes of stimulating
  the economy.
• As prices on crops dropped, many farmers were
  unable to pay their mortgages, and lost their
  farms.

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So what? Or what do you need to find?
Click on the links below to guide your search.
Pictures
Facts
Sound Clips
Click here for Helpful Search Terms
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Search terms

• When you are searching for information, helpful
  terms might be

• Dust bowl
• Migrant workers
• The Great Depression
• 1930s
• Dorothea Lange
• Woodie Guthrie
• Farm Security Administration (FSA)

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Pictures

• Find four (or more) pictures of people from the
  time period (1930-1939)
• Save the images on your server space in a folder
  named Out of the Dust
• Copy the images you find into a Microsoft Word
  document to turn in at the end of the hour.
• Keep reading for helpful sites. . .

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Helpful sites for finding pictures

• http//www.google.com/imghp?hlentabwiq
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
• http//newdeal.feri.org/

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Facts

• Find four (or more) facts about the time period
  (1930-1939)
• Copy and paste the facts into a Microsoft Word
  document and save on your server space in a
  folder called Out of the Dust
• Print your document to turn in at the end of the
  hour.
• Keep reading for helpful sites. . .

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Helpful sites for finding facts

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http//www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/depression/
• http//newdeal.feri.org/

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Sound Clips

• Find at least one sound clip from the time period
  (1930-1939). This could be an interview, a song
  or some other interesting thing you come across.
• Save the sound clip on your server space in a
  folder named Out of the Dust
• Copy the link you save into a Microsoft Word
  document to turn in at the end of the hour.
• Keep reading for helpful sites. . .

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Helpful sites for finding sound clips

• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html
  

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Finished?

• Make sure you have SAVED your Microsoft Word
  document on your server space, in the folder
  named Out of the Dust
• Print a copy of your document
• Before you log off, have Mrs. Lafferty or Ms. Tho
  check to make sure things are saved properly
• Log off, and Shut down the computer