This collection enables students to explore the question "How well did New Deal programs meet the needs of all Americans?" through multiple sources. 

This collection uses the Project Zero thinking routine Stories to help students examine the poverty of the Great Depression, programs enacted under New Deal legislation, and the impact on different groups of Americans.  Students should examine each source, in order, utilizing the questions accompanying each source to create their own understanding or as discussion questions in small groups.  At the conclusion of this lesson/activity, students should discuss the essential question.

Essential Question: How well did New Deal programs meet the needs of all Americans?

Standards: 

VUS 10.c and 10.d: The student will apply social science skills to understand key events during the 1920s and 1930s by explaining the causes of the Great Depression and its impact on the American people and evaluating and explaining how Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal measures addressed the Great Depression and expanded the government's role in the economy.

DI.10 in Teaching Tolerance's Social Justice Standards : Students will examine diversity in social, cultural, political, and historical contexts rather than in ways that are superficial or overshimplified.

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