American History I: Unit Plan Calendar
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Key Concepts/Ideas
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Assessment
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Assessment
Day One
Unit: Great Depression
Identify the long term
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causes of the Great
Depression
2.
Graph the economics of the
Great Depression
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High speculation of
stock
Buying on margin
Credit
Installment Plan
Surplus
Overproduction
The Century: Stormy
Weather
Day Five
Unit: Great Depression
Match key people from the
1920’s and 1930’s
Write for superlatives for
the historical figures of the
20’s and 30’s
Review key information
studied from the 20’s and
30’s
 Langston Hughes
 FDR
 Herbert Hoover
 Babe Ruth
 Calvin Coolidge
 Warren G. Harding
 Gertrude Ederle
 Margaret Sanger
Day Two
Unit: Great Depression
Research Hoover’s response
to the Great Depression
Outline the human impact of
the Great Depression
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Rugged Individualism
Hoover Dam
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation
Hoovervilles
Breadlines
Day Six
Unit: Great Depression
Assess the knowledge
gained on the Roaring 20’s
and the Great Depression
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2.
Day Three
Unit: Great Depression
Research Roosevelt’s
response to the Great
Depression
Compare and contrast
Hoover and Roosevelt’s
responses to the Great
Depression
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New Deal
Alphabet Soup
Socialism
Relief
Recovery
Reform
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Day Four
Unit: Great Depression
Summarize how FDR’s
New Deal tried to address
each of the long term
causes of the Great
Depression
Debate the
constitutionality of the
New Deal
 SEC
 FDIC
 AAA
 Social Security