Reading Writing

1. Evaluate what caused the 1. Create your own New Media Literacy Speaking/Listening Grammar
importance of Gone With the Wind 1. Watch and 1. Listen to and 1. Students will be
Deal program, based off
by Margaret Mitchell. Students will synthesize analyze It Dont given a list of
of Roosevelts programs Mean a Thing if It
be given specific excerpts to read. (TVA, CCC, etc.) that Brainpop video sentences that
(VL, INTRA) Aint Got That Swing
would have helped the over the Stock and Cotton Tail by
incorporate The
people and economy in that Market. Duke Ellington and New Deal. Students
2. In groups, read and synthesize
the brief online article A Kids time. (INTRA, VL) https://www.brain describe how it reflects will rewrite the
Education in the Stock Market pop.com/socialstu the culture of the sentences using their
https://www.optionsanimal.com/a- dies/economics/st 1930s. (VL, MR) own synonyms.
kids-education-in-the-stock- ockmarket/ (VS) (VL, INTRA)
market/ (INTER, VL)

Great Depression
Social Studies and New Deal
1. Pre/Post Test (VL)
2. Analyze the supply and demand of the stock Math
5th Grade 1. Calculate and simplify what fraction
market by creating companies and buying shares
of Americans lost their job during the
(LM) Great Depression (LM)
3. Discuss in groups the Great Depression and the Olivia Sanchez, Jean
2. Students will calculate the amount of
people that lived during that time and how their Seyfried soup from the soup kitchen that was
lives differed and were similar from ours need for the people in the 1920s
(INTER, VL) compare to today.
4. Remember what Presidents were during the https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001
Great Depression and write summarize each one. 42405274870331290457614674172985
Science 7936 (VL)
(INTRA)
1. Identify the causes of the
5. . Create a comic strip of the events that
Dust Bowl and develop a
happened from the roaring twenties, stock market
crash, Great Depression or New Deal. (VS) plan for present day farmers
6. Determine what factors made the Midwest that would help them to Key
more susceptible to a drought than other places in avoid having a second Dust Fine Arts
the country. (NA, INTRA) Bowl. (NA, VL) 1. Music- In groups, imagine you are from SP: Spiritualist
2. Compare and contrast the the Great Depression. Invent sounds that
7. Describe how the attitude of the Roaring
apply to the Great Depression and the other
BK: Bodily Kinesthetic
Twenties led to the Great Depression (INTRA) learned behaviors of people INTER: Interpersonal
students must evaluate what the sounds are
8. Create a crossword puzzle using key from the Great Depression
components from each Presidential and the people now using a
applying too. (INTER, MR) MR: Musical Rhythmic
2. Art- Create a help wanted poster, calling NA: Naturalist
Administration (Hoover, Roosevelt, Harding, bubble map. (VS, INTRA) for people to work for one of the several
Coolidge) (VS, VL) programs Roosevelt generated. (VS) VS: Visual Spatial
9. In groups, discuss how the state of the 3. Drama- Write and perform a short scene VL: Verbal Linguistic
economy can influence national legislation. as if you were a radio host, breaking the news LM: Logical
(INTER,VL) on the stock market crash. (VL)
Mathematical
INTRA: Intrapersonal