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week of 4/23

Math - Test on Coach Strand 2

Social Studies -

Homework

4-23 After school review classes are finished!

Math - tomorrow is question and answer day. If there is anything you still do not understand find a question to ask about it!

Social - Work on projects - due Friday No more class time will be given

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dime/history.html#reading

Weekly Synopsis

Math - This week we will continue to review intensely for the New York State Math Exam April 25-27th. Please make sure your child is studying at home NIGHTLY.

Social Studies - This week we will finish working on a project to help our understanding of the Great Depression. Most of the project will be done in class. We will be typing the essay in the computer lab.  I will have students writing parts of their essay at home in order to speed up the process in the computer lab.  The requirements are listed below.

Great Depression Project

You will examine primary sources to develop a sense of the profound impact the Great Depression had on real people’s lives.  You will learn about the New Deal programs and agencies created under the leadership of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  You will then create an essay to show your understanding of the Great Depression and how the New Deal affected people’s lives.

Your essay must contain the following:

A. A cover

B. Table of contents

C . New Deal Chart 

1. Should include the 3 goals of the New Deal and the agencies that were created to accomplish each of these goals.
2. Include a short description of each agency or program

D. Introduction

1. Your opinion of what the depression was like from the songs, photographs and life histories you have examined
2. What you understand the interviewee’s problems and concerns to be
3. What help you think the interviewee needed

E. Interview

1. Should be written in interview format with questions and answers
2. Example of format:

                           Q:

                           A:

                            Q:

                            A:

3. Should answer the following:

                                                              i.      What experiences and problems occurred to the interviewee during the depression

                                                            ii.      Explain at least 2 New Deal programs or organizations that could have provided help

                                                          iii.      How those programs specifically helped the interviewee

                                                          iv.      What the interviewee has been doing since the end of the Great Depression or since the last interview

F. Analysis of photographs (2)

1. Worksheet completed in class

G. Analysis of song (1)

1. Worksheet completed in class

H. Conclusion

1. Reflect on interviewee’s problems
2. Summarize the New Deal agencies discussed and how they helped the interviewee.

Your essay must be typed single spaced, standard margins and times new roman or arial font size 12.