1 / 7

Agenda February 2

Agenda February 2. Journal Causes of the Great Depression Jigsaw Images of the Great Depression Econ 101 The Meltdown Journal: What do you know about our current economic situation?. Jigsaw Text. Prosperity Hides Trouble Optimism Sweeps Hoover to Victory (Madeline's Table)

neubauer
Télécharger la présentation

Agenda February 2

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Agenda February 2 • Journal • Causes of the Great Depression Jigsaw • Images of the Great Depression • Econ 101 The Meltdown Journal: What do you know about our current economic situation?

  2. Jigsaw Text • Prosperity Hides Trouble • Optimism Sweeps Hoover to Victory (Madeline's Table) • Problems Plague the Agriculture Sector and Wealth is Distributed Unevenly (Stu’s Table) • Easy Credit Hides Problems (Mickey’s Table) 4. The Stock market Crash and What Caused the Great Depression (Nahani’s Table) • The Great Depression Begins 5. The Banks Collapse and Businesses Close and Unemployment Rises (Trevor’s Table) 6. Tariffs Add to the Woes and The Depression Goes Global (Aaron’s Table)

  3. Questions • What economic problems lurked beneath the general prosperity of the 1920’s? • What happened on October 29, 1929? • How did this event contribute to the onset of the Great Depression? • How did uneven distribution of the nation’s wealth weaken the American economy? • Why was recovery so difficult after the stock market crash? • What were the primary causes of the Great Depression?

  4. Econ 101 Meltdown • Read the article Q and A Economy in Crisis • Create a timeline that would show the events that led up to the current economic crises • Create a parallel timeline that would show the events that led up to the Great Depression. • What caused Americans to borrow more than they should have and lenders to lend more than they should have? Could this crisis have been avoided? Explain.

  5. Of Mice and Men Chapter 2 Questions Feminist and Marxist Critic HW: Read Chapter 3 in Of Mice and Men Remember Book Club 2 this Friday I will stamp both readers responses and both sets of Socratic Seminar questions Agenda Period 5

  6. Questions • Describe the bunkhouse. How would you set up the scene for a play? What props would you use? • Compare and contrast the scenery in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. • What do the drowning of the puppies and the other field’s hand suggestion to put Candy’s dog down and give him a new pup represent about the world? • What is your first impression of Curly? • Contrast Curly with Lennie and Slim • What is your first impression of Slim? • Where does Slim get his strength and power? • Where does Curly get his strength and power? • What is Curly’s wife’s name? • How are women represented so far in the novel? • Why do you think there are no other women in the novel?

  7. Feminist and Marxist Literary Critisim • Read both background information and selected text from Feminist and Marxist Literary Criticism • What issues do Feminist and Marxist criticism attempt to address in literature? • Do you agree or disagree that these issues valid or important to address? Why or Why not? • Choose a novel that we have read in class or a novel that you have read in the past • Write a one page critic of the novel through the lens of Feminist literary criticism • Write a once page critic of the novel through the lens of Marxist literary criticism

More Related