Socials 10 - Boom & Bust 1920/1930's
Lesson One:
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Lesson Three:
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Lesson Six:
Lesson Seven:
Lesson Eight:
- After finishing the Govt test, re-cap the important events and significance of WW1 and on in Canada by completing the notes.
- Complete a map identifying the different alliances that existed during WW1.
Lesson Two:
- Ask students what they already know about the 20s/30s
- Watch clip from The Great Gatsby to see what prohibition era parties looked like. And another dancing scene.
- Play a 1920s slang game. Get into teams. Ask students what are the most popular slang terms of today? The 1920s also had slang. Give out pieces of paper. I will read them the word in a sentence, must come up with a definition. I will read them to the class and then tell them the real answer. They get a point if they guess correctly.
- Play part of the film Untouchables, explain Canadian link to Prohibition 11:23-16 mins and 47:39-60.53 mins
-Canadian Connection and discuss prohibition in the states. Pay attention to the costumes etc in the video; look at the styles.- First scene: Liquor raid on Al Calpone, all liquor stamped with maple leaf because Canada isn’t dry. Police force corrupt, already know that they were coming. He has to form a group of “untouchables” uncorrupt people (accountant, minority who is an outsider and new to police, older beat cop who was never promoted because he won’t take bribes). Elliot Ness and his crew target rum runners and Al Capone's accountant.
- Second scene: got Capone on tax evasion, not murder etc. get his accountant to admit all the people in the justice system on his payroll. The scene shows them catching rum runners on the bridge bringing liquor from Canada to Chicago.
- Watch "The Story of Us" episode seven Boom or Bust and fill out a worksheet.
Lesson Three:
- Fill out the Roaring 1920's Worksheet with information from the GSlides.
Lesson Four:
- Students will take notes from the Great Depression Cause and Consequence GSlides.
- Watch How the Stock Exchange Works and the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
Lesson Five:
- Review notes on the economy and causes of the stock market crash.
- Watch the first 7:30 of Crash Course Great Depression.
- Review John Maynard Keynes in notes, explain how his ideas influenced The Social Credit Party and CCF. He has also influenced how we have dealt with every economic downtown since then (i.e. BC economic Plan). Watch the two videos below to explain Keynes philosophy. Only watch 3.5 minutes of the Keynes rap as the rest is about another economist. Fear the Boom and Bust and Paradox of Thrift.
- Farmers: Watch the clip Blown Away (see Canada a People's history, go to 35 minutes, continue with Dear Mr. Prime Minister and End of the line )
Lesson Six:
- The day will be spent in the library examining primary and secondary sources. Student will fill our this graphic organizer as they move from table to table. Each table will have an image or document on it.
- Review the inferences from the Gallery Walk of primary and secondary sources.
Lesson Seven:
- Explore how the Govt repsonds to the Great Depression and notes.
- Prep students for the Gallery Walk tomorrow by reviewing what a primary or secondary source is.
Lesson Eight:
- Road to War GSlides and notes.
- Summative Project for this unit is that students will create/write a textbook spread identifying significant topics and images to include, which topics to purposely exclude and justifying why in their choice.