Spotlight on America: The Great DepressionEncourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, working with maps, and more. Most titles include a Readers Theater. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Teacher Lesson Plans for Reading Comprehension | 4 |
Student Reading Pages | 7 |
Reading Comprehension Quizzes | 19 |
Teacher Lesson Plans for Language Arts | 24 |
Student Activity Pages for Language Arts | 26 |
Teacher Lesson Plans for Social StudiesMathSciencePE | 38 |
Student Activity Pages for Social Studies MathSciencePE | 40 |
Culminating Activities | 44 |
Annotated Bibliography | 45 |
Glossary | 46 |
Answer Key | 47 |
Common terms and phrases
activity sheet additional reading selections American Assessment bank black blizzards Buddy buy stocks California Calvin Coolidge cardboard carrot tops clothes cont copies Correct the quizzes demonstrate fluency Depression Quiz Depression-era discuss the following Dust Bowl dust storms e-book economic farm farmers following questions Franklin D Franklin Roosevelt Herbert Hoover highlight unfamiliar words historically based text hoboes Hoover blankets Hooverville Blues Idioms jalopy Karen Hesse kids Knopf lived lost their jobs mar gins Materials migrant million Miss Kelly Norma Jean's Okies Oklahoma Quiz Directions Readers reading historically based Reading Passages Reproduce and distribute Review pre-reading skills Robert Newton Peck Roosevelt script seeds shacks skills by briefly small groups soil Soup books Soup for President Soup's sources for enrichment stock market story students complete students read students to underline tariffs Teacher Lesson Plans Theater Tin-Can Stilts unemployment West to Hope workers