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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Department of Social Sciences

GRADE LEVEL OR COURSE TITLE: Eleventh Grade - United States History

Division of Academics, Department of Social Sciences

STRAND(S) and STANDARD(S): American History (Standard 1: Use research and inquiry skills to analyze American history using primary and secondary sources; Standard 5: Analyze the effects of the changing social, political, and economic conditions of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.) Geography (Standard 1: Understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technology to report information; Standard 2: Understand physical and cultural characteristics of places; Standard 4: Understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations.) Humanities (Standard 1: Identify and analyze the historical, social, and cultural contexts of the arts; Standard 3: Understand how transportation, trade, communication, science and technology influence the progression and regression of cultures.)

Topic 11: THE GREAT DEPRESSION & THE NEW DEAL

Pacing Date(s) Traditional 7 days 1-19-21 to 1-27-21* Block 3.5 days 1-19-21 to 1-27-21*

Reporting Category: Global Military, Political, and Economic Challenges, 1890-1940

Essential Questions: How did the financial challenges of the Depression Era foster involvement of the U.S. government in economic affairs? What were the long term and immediate causes of the Great Depression? How did the New Deal attempt to end the Great Depression? To what extent did the New Deal change the role of government in the United States? *3 days of instruction extend into 3rd Nine Weeks

*No Mini-Assessment for this topic. Will be tested on MYA (6 items on MYA). Use MYA data for assessment of this content.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Department of Social Sciences

GRADE LEVEL OR COURSE TITLE: Eleventh Grade - United States History

Division of Academics, Department of Social Sciences

Second Nine Weeks

Essential Content NGSSS-SS Benchmarks/Florida Standards Instructional Tools Course Themes Addressed: Politics & Citizenship Reform Economic Transformations

•CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

o Overproduction of Agricultural & Consumer Goods

o Overexpansion of Credit o Bank & Business Failures o Speculation o Unemployment o Decline in Agricultural

Prices o Margin Buying o Panic Selling o Stock Market Crash

•CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

o Soup Kitchens o Shantytowns o Homelessness o Suicide Rate o Massive Unemployment o Business failures o Farm Foreclosures o The Dust Bowl o Impact on Families o Internal

Migration/Displacement from Great Plains to West Coast

•HOOVER’S RESPONSE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION

o No Direct Relief o Private Charities

Florida Standards: LAFS.1112.RH.3.8 Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information. Content Benchmarks: SS.912.A.5.11: Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal.

Click on the following link for a detailed lesson plan to assist in the instruction of the tested benchmark above: SS.912.A.5.11 Great Depression and New Deal Click HERE for benchmark details and clarifications taken from the U.S. History Item Specifications: SS.912.A.5.12: Examine key events and people in Florida history as they relate to United States history. Skill Benchmarks: SS.912.A.1.1: Describe the importance of historiography, which includes how historical knowledge is obtained and transmitted, when interpreting events in history. SS.912.A.1.2: Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to identify author, historical significance, audience, and authenticity to understand a historical period. SS.912.A.1.3: Utilize timelines to identify the time sequence of historical data. SS.912.A.1.4: Analyze how images, symbols, objects, cartoons, graphs, charts, maps, and artwork may be used to interpret the significance of time periods and events from the past.

Florida Standards Focus Activity: Using the following link, complete web quest #1 to evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information pertaining to the Great Depression and Social Security. http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/socialsecurity/0/webquest/ (This also meets LACC.1112.WSHT.3.8 Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation). Content Focus: Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), bank holiday, Black Tuesday, Bonus Expeditionary Force, bull market, buying on margin, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Dust Bowl, economic boom, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Great Depression, Gross National Product (GNP), impact of climate and natural disasters, National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), National Recovery Act (NRA), National Recovery Administration (NRA), Recovery, Reform, Relief, Roaring Twenties, Sit-Down Strike, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Social Security, speculation boom, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) Core Text: United States History. Pearson. 2018 Topics 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 (pp. 346-394) Technology: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940–1941 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html Farm Security Administration (FSA) studies of migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941 are the bulk of this site. The collection includes audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, and publications.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ This site provides information about FDR, the only president to serve more than two terms.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Department of Social Sciences

GRADE LEVEL OR COURSE TITLE: Eleventh Grade - United States History

Division of Academics, Department of Social Sciences

Second Nine Weeks Essential Content NGSSS-SS Benchmarks/Florida Standards Instructional Tools

o Voluntarism o “Rugged Individualism” o Creation of the

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

•ELECTION OF 1932: FDR INTRODUCES “NEW DEAL” •NEW DEAL GOALS: RELIEF, RECOVERY, & REFORM • IMPORTANT NEW DEAL MEASURES & AGENCIES

o First Hundred Days o The “Bank Holiday”:

Banking Act of 1933 o Federal Emergency Relief

Act (FERA) o National Recovery

Administration (NRA) o Agricultural Adjustment

Administration (AAA) o Civilian Conservation Corps

(CCC) o Tennessee Valley Authority

(TVA) o The National Labor

Relations Act (the Wagner Act)

o Social Security Act o The Federal Housing

Administration •THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE NEW DEAL

o FDR & the United States Supreme Court

o Court-Packing Scheme •IMPACT OF THE NEW DEAL ON MINORITIES

SS.912.A.1.5: Evaluate the validity, reliability, bias, and authenticity of current events and Internet resources. SS.912.A.1.6: Use case studies to explore social, political, legal, and economic relationships in history. SS.912.A.1.7: Describe various socio-cultural aspects of American life including arts, artifacts, literature, education, and publications. SS.912.G.1.2: Use spatial perspective and appropriate geographic terms and tools, including the Six Essential Elements, as organizational schema to describe any given place. SS.912.G.1.3: Employ applicable units of measurement and scale to solve simple locational problems using maps and globes. SS.912.G.2.1: Identify the physical characteristics and the human characteristics that define and differentiate regions. SS.912.G.4.2: Use geographic terms and tools to analyze the push/pull factors contributing to human migration within and among places. SS.912.G.4.3: Use geographic terms and tools to analyze the effects of migration both on the place of origin and destination, including border areas. SS.912.H.1.1: Relate works in the arts (architecture, dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) of varying styles and genre according to the periods in which they were created. SS.912.H.1.3: Relate works in the arts to various cultures. SS.912.H.1.5: Examine the artistic response to social issues and new ideas in various cultures. SS.912.H.3.1: Analyze the effects of transportation, trade, communication, science, and technology on the

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project http://www.loc.gov/collection/federal-writers-project/about-this-collection/

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935–1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html Images in the Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information Collection show Americans from all over the nation experiencing everything from despair to triumph in the 1930s and 1940s.

Suggested Activities Menu:

Have students create a chart identifying the causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression.

Have students create a Venn diagram listing the effects that the Great Depression had on farmers and city dwellers.

Have students research an Oral History from a person who lived during the Depression years. Have students compare and contrast the experience with a more recent economic downtown.

Have students predict, through small or large groups, what the American government’s actions might be in handling a future economic crisis that is comparable to the Great Depression.

Suggested Writing Activities Menu:

Have students write an editorial either supporting or opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Have students list and explain the New Deal programs that they consider most important and provide evidence and reasoning to support their position.

Assessment: *Use the assessment items and suggestions associated with this grade level that are included in the publisher provided resources. *Develop rubrics and share with students for each of the above-mentioned projects to increase opportunities for mastery of content and historical thinking skills. Each project or assignment should be assessed for content accuracy and skill development in terms of writing and reading comprehension.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Department of Social Sciences

GRADE LEVEL OR COURSE TITLE: Eleventh Grade - United States History

Division of Academics, Department of Social Sciences

Second Nine Weeks Essential Content NGSSS-SS Benchmarks/Florida Standards Instructional Tools

o Women, African Americans, Native Americans, & Latinos

•THE LEGACY OF THE NEW DEAL

o Shift from Laissez-Faire to Regulated Capitalism

o Deficit Spending o Expansion in the Size,

Scope, & Power of the Federal Government

•ROLE OF TOURISM IN FLORIDA’S DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH (1890-1940)

o Land Boom & Bust (1920- 1930)

o Impact of the Great Depression (1926-1940)

preservation and diffusion of culture.

ELL: Use visual depictions of historical events in order to increase ELL students’ mastery of related content. Special Commemorations: State and District policy requires that all teachers K-12 provide instruction to students in the following content areas: African American History, Character Education, Hispanic contributions to the United States, Holocaust Education, and Women’s Contributions to the United States. Detailed lesson plans can be downloaded from the Department of Social Sciences website, http://socialsciences.dadeschools.net/. Additional resources are also updated annually and posted under the District's Curriculum Resource tile accessible through the employee portal and by clicking on the "Special Commemorations" tab. For a complete list of Special Commemorations produced by the Department of Social Sciences, click HERE.