Materials for all the lessons: To teach my lessons in the classroom I am going to need a smart board.

In my high school all the classrooms had smart boards. I am going to also need a computer so I will be able to work with the smart board. Many times when Im lecturing I want to have some sort of outline on the smart board to allow my students to have a frame of reference of the notes they should be taking. I want the students to have an interactive experience and the smart board will facilitate that interaction and make sure its a hands-on experience. I know many classes are not equipped with a smart board but my classroom is fortunate enough to have one. Theme: Before Great Depression and Beginning of Depression Grade: Grade 11 and United States History Goals: develop and test hypotheses about important events, eras, or issues in New York State and United States history, setting clear and valid criteria for judging the importance and significance of these events, eras, or issues understand the interrelationships between world events and developments in New York State and the United States (e.g., causes for immigration, economic opportunities, human rights abuses, and tyranny versus freedom) analyze historical narratives about key events in New York State and United States history to identify the facts and evaluate the authors perspectives Objectives: 1. Students will be able to discuss how the United States and the economy were before the Great Depression. 2. Students will be able to explain the causes of the Great Depression. 3. Students will be able to learn how to take notes orally and from the board. 4. Students will be able to understand the election of Herbert Hoover and his policies during the 1920s and Great Depression. 5. Students will be able to present their own aid program to the class that they have created and discuss why they created in the way they did. 6. Student will be able to analyze the problems the United States and President Hoover with countries abroad. Materials needed: Note taking work sheet Create your own aid program work sheet Smart Board Lecture notes Pictures and political cartoons

Lesson: Warm up: Ask students what they think the economy was like before the Great Depression? 1. After students have answered the question, begin with the lecture notes shown on the smart board and have them compare what they thought the economy was like with what the economy really was like before the Great Depression.

2. Before I start with the notes on the Great Depression, I am going to begin with how I want them to take the notes from the board and orally. A. I am going to hand out the guideline sheet I created and explain to them how its set up for proper note taking and how this will be the form for the rest of the year. This will be an effective note taking format that will be easy to use to study from. For the notes they will take I will leave a generic version of the notes on the smart board so they have a basis, but the details and sub-details I will say orally and they will have to copy them. http://economics-the-economy.knoji.com/what-caused-the-great-recession-of-20082009/ 3. First the students and I will follow the lecture notes on the economy before the Great Depression. A. Once students understand the economy before the Great Depression, the students and I will follow the lecture notes on the causes of the Great Depression. B. I am going to have them come up with a list in small groups of causes of the 2008 recession. These small groups will consist of the 2 or 3 students of the students around them. 4. Once they come up with a list we will come up with a master list and then compare and contrast them to the causes of the Great Depression. 5. Students and I will follow the lecture notes and discuss Herbert Hoover and his credentials for President. 6. Stock Market Crash we will follow the lecture notes and I will show some students some political cartoons and we will analyze the cartoons. http://blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/blogs.dir/21/files/2010/04/cartoon-for-PTL_web.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/mnvhoSZ68IE/TaeyPrO104I/AAAAAAAANr0/TjUtDFDJX7M/s1600/27211592.jpg 7. The students and I after analyzing the political cartoons will continue the lecture notes people lives (ie. living conditions, etc.) A. Describe to students what Hoovervilles show pictures of the two. http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5286/greatdepressionlivingin.jpg http://hoovervillehistory.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/hooverville.jpg B. On my own pants show students what a Hoover flag was and its significane during that time. C. Ask students if they think this Hoover flag was successful and showing their message to Hoover and society? Could there have been a better way? 8. After discussing living conditions the students and I will continue with the lecture notes on the Hoover Aid programs. A. Show students pictures and political cartoons of the aid programs, analyze the pictures and cartoons

Agricultural program http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-whBw7DaU33Y/T3dIbbuVh6I/AAAAAAAAEPY/NeFwdweXPtU/s1600/11cartoon1.jpg http://farmers.uslegal.com/federal-grain-inspection/agricultural-marketing-act/ Public Works program http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VeOwfku_t7I/Tp8O0UnbQI/AAAAAAAAAuk/AaoElRpKQY4/s1600/1936+WPA+Diggers+2.jpg http://images.nypl.org/?id=732756F&t=w http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/landofsunshine/assets/images/00028507.jpg Reconstruction Finance Corporation http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/reconstruction-finance-corporation.htm 9. After the students understand the aid programs Hoover tried to create the students will in small groups with the 2 or 3 students around them will create an aid or work program that would have stimulated the economy. 10. Hand out Create your own aid program worksheet and go over the instructions with the students 11. After students come up with their own aid program in their groups of up to 5 they will present their aid programs to the class and the class and I will then decide which program they created would have been most effective and less effective and why. 12. The students and I will go over the lecture notes on America, Hoover and the problems faced abroad. A. Show map of South American so students can see what countries the United States was in involvement with then discuss the Good Neighbor Policy. B. Should the United States involve themselves in Latin American issues? http://i.infoplease.com/images/mapsouthamerica.gif http://millercenter.org/president/hoover/essays/biography/5 Wrap up- Discuss as a class what they think Hoover could have done differently during the Great Depression, if anything and why. Or discuss as a class which program they think was most effective of Hoovers to help end the Great Depression. (Maybe both)