TEXT SET

Name: Emily Sklencar

Discipline: social studies
Topic: The Great Depression
Title

Author/Illustrator/

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters

Children of the Great

Potato:

Roses Journal:

from Children of the Great

Depression

A tale from the great depression

A Story of a Girl in the Great Depression

Depression
By: Robert Cohen

By: Russell Freedman

By: Kate Lied

By: Marissa Moss

Illustrated by: Lisa Campbell Ernst

Source/
Web address
Format

Hard cover book

Paperback

Picture Book

Paperback

Genre

Primary source: letters

Memories, letters, diaries,

Historical tale

Historical fiction: journal style

Summary

Cohen has assembled a text

photography
Freedman draws from

A tale told by an eight-year old girl about her

Moss uses real life events to create a

full of letters written by

various firsthand accounts

grandparents experience and hardships

journal about a young girl during the

children during the 1930s to

paired with photography of

during the Great Depression and how they

Great Depression. The book is written in

Mrs. Roosevelt. The letters

the time to give a peak into

found work digging potatoes.

a very kid- friendly journal style with

help to convey the hardships

the world of children during

accounts of Roses family struggles

and ways of life for children

the Great Depression.

during the extreme drought and some of

during the Great

her families successes in the following

Depression. Cohen offers a

years.

unique view of the American

family during this time
period.

The First Inaugural Address

Title

Inaugural address:

The Dust Bowl

Author/Illustrator/Source/

By:

Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.history.com/topics/us-

Library of congress:

Web address

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

presidents/franklin-d-

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/

Resources:

roosevelt/videos/inaugural-address-

primarysourcesets/dust-bowl-migration/

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm

franklin-d-roosevelt

Format

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Digital

Digital video

Digital photography

Genre

Primary Source: Speech

Primary source: speech

Historical photography

Summary

President Roosevelt addresses the country truth

A video recording of President Roosevelts

This section found in the library of congress

and honesty in his first inaugural speech. He

first inaugural speech

contains several selected photographs taken

outlines what type of reform and action needs to

during the 1930s. They include children and

take place to revive the country from the current

families during their struggle known as the Dust

Depression.

Bowl.