Websites to help out with Great Depression/New Deal Project

https://depts.washington.edu/depress/hooverville.shtml

https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=hooverville&new=true&st=

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-fireside-chats-roosevelts-radio-talks

https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/20/Newdeal.debate/index.html?_s=PM:US

Did the New Deal work? Debate continues 75 years later

https://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/diditwork.pdf

https://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=33

https://www.ushistory.org/us/49e.asp

https://www.britannica.com/list/7-alphabet-soup-agencies-that-stuck-around

https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=dust+bowl+&new=true&st=

https://www.ushistory.org/Us/48.asp

Treaty of Versailles Argumentative Writing

Attached is the outline to the argumentative writing assignment: Treaty of Versailles Essay Template

 

The goal is to take your country (U.S.A., Britain, or France) and write about the extent the Central Powers should be punished for WWI (from your country’s perspective). Due Tuesday. Even if you are not in school you have my email address! It is maynarj1@dearbornschools.org.

Trench Warfare

Today we watched the trench warfare scenes in the movie “War Horse”

You are supposed to do the following with that:

  • Create a journal entry about life in the trenches. Describe who the people are, what you see, the technology, the weapons, etc.
  • At the end, write to your friend in America about whether the Americans should fight this war or not.