Week One: Introducing the 1930s and the Great Depression

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

-Introduce
WebQuest
W1A1 (25)
-KWL Chart on
ideas, topics
related to Great
Depression, or
GD (25)

-Address
WebQuest
questions (10)
-Provide
informational
background text
on GD and read
as class (20)
-Create Venn
diagrams in
groups of 3-4 on
how this
background
compares to your
life (20)

-Socratic
seminar on
Gallo story with
questions and
comments (30)
-Introduce
bridge text: Out
of the Dust by
Karen Hesse
with read aloud
p. 1-15. Have
students write
details of
Billies life,
items, people,
etc. (20)

-Read aloud p.
46-60 (15)
-Mini-lesson:
Newspaper
samples on
finding main
point and citing
evidence (35)

-Read aloud p.
101-115 (15)
-Interview
classmate on their
background story.
Handout with
interview
questions (35)

HW: Explore
WebQuest site
sections. Come
with questions
for tomorrow.
Bring writing
journals.

Read Don
Gallos Time
Capsule chapter
1930-39. List
details you find
in the story
(objects,
language,
culture, etc.)
Come up with
two
questions/comme
nts and be
prepared to share
in class
tomorrow.

Read OOTD p.
16-45. Read
instructions for
W1A2 and
create
background for
your character.
Due Friday in
journal.

Read OOTD p.
61-100. Bring
character
background and
journals.

Finish OOTD.

Week Two: Understanding the Role of Economy in the GD

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

-OOTD Stand-up
quiz (10)
-Compile list of
OOTD themes
(10)
- Read aloud
GOW ch.1 (10)
-Mini-lesson:
Metaphors (20)

-W2A1 Read
informational
text on economy
in the GD (25)
-Bank activity,
we assign the
students their
family funds
that they will use
throughout their
WebQuest (25)

-Mini-lesson:
Similes (20)
-Handout of
metaphors and
similes, students
find and cite
(20)
-Debrief
handout (10)

-W2A3 on
distributing
money (5)
-Bank activity
(25)
-Discussion on
observations,
questions,
comments on
GOW so far
(20)

-Active viewing:
Stock Market
Crash (20)
-Mapping activity
(30)

HW: Read GOW

ch. 2-3
Note any
metaphors you
find.

Read GOW ch.

4-5. W2A2
journal
assignment.

Read GOW ch.

6.

Read GOW ch.

7-8. Resume
template
handout: create
resume for a
character.

Read GOW ch.912

Week Three: Exploring Culture, Art, and Life in the 30s

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

-Sticky Note
quiz: Why did
the family leave?
Themes?
Recurring
topics? (20)
-Brother, Can
You Spare a
Dime? Song: use
context to
determine
meaning of
references (30)

-W3A1 Read
provided poem.
Complete
writing activity
for homework.
(10)
-Mini-lesson:
Imagery (20)
-Debrief:
imagery in song
and poem (20)

-Update
mapping (10)
-Movie theatre
activity: using
the New York
Times to teach
about the GD
(40)

-Mini-lesson:
- Active viewing:
extended
GOW movie (50)
metaphor &
style (30)
-GD
Photography
activity: write
ideas that come
to mind when
viewing these
images. Do they
compare with
GOW? OOTD?
Short story?
(20)

HW: Read GOW Read GOW ch.

ch. 13. Continue 14-15. W3A1
finding meaning complete poem.
of song
references.

Read GOW ch.

16. W3A2
journal
assignment
(am-pm).

Read GOW ch.

17. Handout:
three sentences
of similar style.

Read GOW ch.

18. W3A3
Informational text
on entertainment
in the 30s with
vide, with
synthesized
summary with
compare/contrast.
Bring two
questions/comme
nts on reading.

Week Four: Reviewing Documents and Laws of the GD

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

-Socratic
discussion with
focus on
thoughts/respons
es to the sheriff
character (30)
-30s
employment
policies (20)

- Mini-lesson:
rhetoric
(logos/pathos/eth
os) (20)
-Advertisements:
ethics of GOW
advertisements,
and rhetoric of
30s
advertisements
(30)

-New Deal
speech handout
and read aloud.
Analysis of
rhetoric.
Discussion on
what the New
Deal
promises/implie
s (50)

-Stand-up quiz.
(10)
-Update
mapping (10)
-Overlapping
themes of GOW
and OOTD (30)

- Active Viewing:
Supply &
Demand (20)
-W4A3 journal
response to
supply and
demand (30)

HW: Read GOW Read GOW ch.

ch. 19. W4A1 on 20.
employment.

Read GOW ch. Read GOW ch.

21 -22.5. W4A2 22.5-23.
journal response
to New Deal.

Read GOW 2425. Collage

handout
assignment.

Week Five: Unit Paper and Editing/Revising

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

-Assign Unit
Paper: go over
in class
requirements.
Directions are
on W5A1 (10)
- Immigration/
migration
lesson. Compare
and contrast
(40)

-Informational
texts:
Immigration.
Okies (20)
-Identity activity
(30)

-Share collage.
Create
collective
idea of their
collages and
how they reflect
the 30s (35)
-Mini-lesson:
Annotated
bibliographies
(15)

-Socratic
discussion:
Death, themes,
symbolism (20)
-Conclusion on
metaphors (30)

-Complete/review
map (10)
-Class character
analysis.
Reflections on
character growth,
group handout,
cite evidence (40)

HW: Read
GOW ch. 26.5

Read GOW ch.

26.5. W5A1
Journal response.
(am-pm)

Read GOW 2728. Bring two

questions/comm
ents.

Read GOW ch.

29-30. W5A2
browse, and
note potential
sources,
annotated bib.

W5A3, finish
annotated
bibliography and
have at least 3
pages of draft
done for peer
editing.

Week Six: Unit Paper and Editing/Revising

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

-Peer editing
Round 1 (50)

-Active Viewing:
GOW (50)

-Peer editing
round 2 (50)

-Share
outcomes of
students
WebQuest
characters. (50)

-W6A2 portfolio
of WebQuest
responses due
Monday.
-Depression Era
food, reflection
and debrief day.

HW:

Bring draft 2 for

W6A1 journal
peer editing round response for
2.
outcome of your
family.

Draft 3 of unit
paper due to
teacher next
Wednesday.

W6A2 portfolio.