Willis Young

SIUE East St. Louis Charter School

AAM affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

wiyoung@siue.edu

Lesson Plan description and Rationale: Students will be able to explain how a significant historical event can have many causes.

State Standards/s:

State Goal 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements that shaped the history of Illinois, the U.S. and other nations.

Standard 16A - Apply skills of historical analysis and interpretations.

               16B - Understand the development of significant political events.

State Goal 18: Understand social systems with an emphasis on the U.S.

Standard 18A - Compare the characteristics of civilization as referenced

  in language, literature, the arts, traditions and institutions.

   18B - Understand how social systems form and develop over time.

Objectives: Students will analyze the Great Depression era photos provided (four pictures).  The students will describe the conditions and situations. Students will tell how they feel about the pictures.

Resources:

	Delano, Jack “Greene County Fair.” 1941. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/race/evidence.html] [fsa8a37082] [March 2004]County Fair.html
	Delano, Jack “Negro driver asleep under a truck.” 1940. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/race/evidence.html [fsa8a34404] [March 2004]
	Vachon, John   "A drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn."1938. Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers(Library of Congress). http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html [LC-USZ62-100414] [March 2004]
	Burke, Betty “African-American packinghouse worker.” 1939. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/unions/jimcole.html [W3631] [March 2004]
	Rothstein, Arthur “America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI 1935-1945.” 1939 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html [fsa 8a10390] [March 2004]

Methods: Identify economic and social conditions which African American citizens experienced.

• Each student will view pictures and write a description of what is depicted in the picture.
• Students will divide into groups of three to share what they have written.
• Each group must come to a consensus of what the picture represents.
• The group will then present the picture evaluation to the class.

Evaluation: A group interpretation of the photographs in a short essay showing the knowledge of the circumstances of  The Great Depression and African Americans.

Keywords for this lesson: The Great Depression, African American, Civil Rights, Negro, U. S. History, Racial Discrimination, Farm Security Administration, State Goal 16, State Goal 18

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