S+Bouzakine,+Evgeni

**Office:** Building Q **Office Phone:** **Office Hours:** ** E-mail: ** evgeni.bouzakine@maine.edu
 * Teacher:** Mr. B

=Summary of Unit= // Students will cover a period from 1929 to 1941, The Great Depression and The New Deal. Herbert Hoover was president when the Great Depression struck. Discussing what he had done when the Stock Market Crash happen. Students will be able to understand what led to the Stock Market Crash and what made the Depression last as long as it did. Students will learn terminology from the depression and new deal era, comparing the economic situation then and the economic situation now. Students will understand the importance of the laws put into place during New Deal era helped the United States reform the banking system, and elaborate on the high unemployment rate .The New Deal will be evaluated and examined to see how programs and administrations affected the economy. By using type II technology, students will display their knowledge through numerous activities to think outside the box. //

=Establish Goals= // Maine Learning Results //// Social Studies // // E1 Historical knowledge, concepts, themes, and patterns. // // The depression and The New Deal, 1929-1941 // // Grade 6-8: Students understand major eras, major enduring themes, and // // historic //// influences in the history of Maine, the United States, and various regions of the world. // // Performance Indicators: A, B, D. //

=Students will understand that= // •identifying the many events, turning points, consequences, and historical eras, during the United States Depression will help them identify the resulting events that lead to the New Deal // // •analyzing the events, turning points, consequences, and historical eras during the United States Depression will help them analyze the resulting events that lead to the New Deal. // // •analyzing different interpretations and evidence from the depression and New Deal will help them recognize different perspectives on each event. //

=Essential Questions= // •What events, turning points, and consequences from the depression lead up to the New Deal? // // •Why did the events, turning points, and consequences from both the Depression and New Deal give such an impact on the United States? // // •How can the events during the Depression and New Deal be looked at from different perspectives? //

=Students will know= // • Terminology- Depression, The New Deal, The Hundred Days, // // Second Hundred Days, Economy Act, Emergency Banking Act, Federal Emergency Relief Act, The Stock Market crash, Black Tuesday, Tarriff Act,and what lead to the Stock Market Crash. Know the correct order of what happened from the crash to the decline in Unemployment, Hoover and Roosevelt election, bank failures, Tarriff Act, Farm prices dropped, 4 million unemployed ( 3.2 to 8.7 percent), Roosevelt's plans/speech, The three R's, no legislation passed to fix Depression, First Hundred Days, Bank Holiday, controversial redistribution of wealth,  Adjustment Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the National Recovery Administration, the Public Works Administration and the Tennessee Valley Authority. (EQUIP) Step by Step Chart will go over how each law in the first hundred day should have and did effect the Depression, The Second Hundred Days, Emergency Banking Bill, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the Farm Credit Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Truth-in-Securities Act, Roosevelt does much to redistribute wealth, 25% unemployment reached, 21.7 percent unemployment,Sweden recovers, National Recovery Administration to be unconstitutional, Banking Act of 1935, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act, unemployment 20 percent, tax rate raised to 79 percent, 16.9 percent, High Government Spending, $1 billion to build armed forces, U.S. manufacturing 50%, The Depression is ending worldwide. // // •Important People- Franklin D Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, // // •Events- Depression(Market Crash 1929), Hundred Days, Second Hundred Days //

=Students will be able to= // •demonstrate an understanding of the New Deal & Depression // //•evaluate major events leading to The New Deal & Depression// //•perform the ability to make connections between The New Deal & Depression// //•analyze the evidence and what caused the Depression & The New Deal// //•be open to different perspectives concerning the New Deal & Depression// //•reflect on the consequences that the Depression had on the United States//

**Performance Task Overview** // You and your partners have been selected by the Metropolitan Museum in New York to create an online exhibition for their website. Your group is one of several who will be competing to create the best exhibition, and win the honor of having it displayed on their website. The museum requires that you select a four year period during The Depression and New Deal as a foundation for the online exhibit you will be creating. You will be using Dipity, a digital timeline creator. Then you will embed your timeline into the class wiki. You must include how government laws affected the United States economy and citizens during the four year period you have selected. You must include photos, information, audio/ video in your online exhibit to make your presentation more appealing. Once you have completed your task, the Metropolitan Museum Leaders of the History Department will decide which exhibit will become a part of their website. //

=Expectations= __ **Attendance:** __ Attendance is required and skipping is not acceptable. Attending class is the best way to be able to completely understand the content. If a student is absent, they must come in and come to me for work missed from previous day. If you miss multiple days, you are required to email me at least once, so I can send you the work missed.All assignments will be posted on wiki, but please come see me anyway. Those are subject to change and is more like a quideline than anything else. Any information needed to complete an assignment will be given by me so you can complete the assignment. If you have any questions please email me and I will usually respond with the day.

Student will need to negotiate a new deadline for an assignment with me if you want to turn in anything late. If you do not comply with this, ten points will be taken off everyday it is late. Make sure to contact me through email the night before. It does not matter how late you do it, as long as its the night before it is due. Students who are absent will be given a new appropriate deadline.
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Plagiarism is 100% unacceptable. It is a crime and if caught is subject to a zero on that assignment. Always use proper citations to avoid any confusion who own the work. Sites will be provided on how to cite your resources properly.
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You are to be respectable to your peers and teachers. We will have a comfortable environment where I want everyone to be able to speak up. Nobody should ever be put down with the intention to harm. Joking and kidding around is allowed but not to the point where people's feeling are being hurt. An equal learning environment will be key to having successful students in the classroom.
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=Benchmarks (300)= •**Podcast:(75)** Students will create audio file (radio show) with a group and talk about and make connections with, the Depression and The Market Crash. The radio show should include the slang of the 1930's, Important events, and the effect from the market crash. The presentation should be around 3-5 minutes long. Everyone in the group must participate in the radio show.

• ** iMovie:(75) ** Students will create a commercial showing how to avoid the Depression. Use the New Deal as an outline to your idea in making a 30 second commercial where you can show an effective way to avoid the depression. I Expect a typed up sript of the commercial with the highlights of the commercial in bold. Props and costumes are suggested when making the commercial. Consider all aspects that go into making this film look like a commercial shot in the 1930's.

•**Comic Life:(50)** Students will make a brochure analyzing The New Deal and what it was supposed to do. It is important to use pictures that represent the times. Look at this more of like a comic with detail about what the New Deal was supposed to do as opposed to what it really did. Use at least three sources other than class notes.

•**Garageband:(50)** Do an interview with someone who was from the Depression Era, do this in groups of three. You do not actually have to find someone that lived in the 1930's. It is important to use costumes and consider what an interview would sound like in that era. The interview should be at least 4 minutes long, with real life example of what that person has gone through.

•**Google Doc:(25)** Comment on a news article from the 1930's,(explain moral and what was said) and getting instant feedback from peers and teacher. Write at least a page on something interests you, but also has something to do with the Depression. Analyze the article down and use the important content from that article. Make sure to bring your laptops to class with your assignment typed up in Google email.

•**Prezi:(25)** Students will show how the poor and rich dealt with the Depression and getting comments on it from other students in class. Use at least 3 other sources other than our notes in class. Show pictures and articles that described the classes and how each dealt with the Depression.. Your presentation will be showed in front of class and should be self explanatory with the need to explain anything.

=Grading Scale=
 * A ** (93 -100), ** A- ** (90 - 92), ** B+ ** (87 - 89), ** B ** (83 - 86), ** B- ** (80 - 82), ** C+ ** (77 - 79), ** C ** (73-76), ** C- ** (70 - 72), ** D+ ** (67 - 69), ** D ** (63 - 66), ** D- ** (60 - 62), ** F ** (0 - 59).