Great
Depression Diary Entries
Your
assignment is to create entries in the diary of a student living in our part
of the country during the Great Depression. As this student, you belong to
an extended family (one grandparent, two parents, three children- ages fourteen,
twelve and ten). Your diary entries, in correct chronological order must include
at least five of the following elements:
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The hardships
endured by families during the Great Depression.
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Effects of the
Depression on cities.
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Explanation of
President Hoover's plan for economic recovery and citizen reactions.
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Support or opposition
to the Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Ways in which
family members are helped or hurt by New Deal programs.
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Ways in which
the community is helped or hurt by New Deal legislation.
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Changes in the
way people lived during the Depression.
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Description of
a "fireside chat" by FDR.
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The effect of
radio on your families perception of FDR.
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Ways that working
conditions of family members were changed by the Depression and the New
Deal.
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Reaction of yourself
and family to New Deal: support or opposition.
You may create as
many diary entries as you need to meet the above requirement, but there must
by a minimum of twenty. The diary entries are to be written in first-person
narrative and not an essay about the Great Depression. Use descriptive writing
to illustrate your ideas. It must seem as if your character has lived through
the Great Depression. Your first entry should be dated October 30, 1929.
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