Many elementary school students are unaware of how banks make money and what causes them to fail. This lesson will provide students with a basic understanding of those two issues, linking them to the Great Depression and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Banking Holiday in 1933.
Essential Question How do banks make money? What causes banks to fail? How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt try to stem the failure of banks in 1933?Background...
How effective was President Franklin Roosevelt in communicating with the American public during this time of crisis?
Objectives Understand the importance of thinking critically about historical events. Be able to analyze primary source documents through all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Understand FDR’s intentions and plans that he outlined in 1933 to pull our nation out of the Great Depression. Be able to compare two or more types of documents to see their potential...
In three lessons students will interact with readings of excerpted documents to develop an understanding of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as a humanitarian devoted to a strong democracy with educated citizens. Students will work with the teacher and in small groups to deconstruct text for meaning and to construct written responses to higher-level thinking questions.
Lesson 1: “Preserving Civil Liberties,” Speech, Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, Chicago, IL, March 14, 1940 excerpted. Eleanor...
Common Core–aligned history units to help history and ELA teachers improve reading and writing instruction.