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=Writing Through Time=

Does anybody know what time it is? || Would you stay in the dust bowl or migrate to California? Did moral decay begin when flappers raised their skirts and cut their hair? Read [|When Bernice Bobs Her Hair] by F. Scott Fitzgerald. What did the government do to restore some economic stability? Read The Great American Depression for some ideas. [|The Great American Depression]
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What events brought economic prosperity back to the US? Why was WW I called the war to end all wars?
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 * Define the New Deal.
 * Define the New Deal.


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This unit will connect writing, language arts and US history to the 1920s and 1930s. Emphasis is on collaborative learning as the students adopt an avatar and journal through specific points of history. This 20-year journey is part of a larger unit that addresses US history from colonization to the social revolution of the 1960s. The students will read period literature, study significant people and events of US history and journal with appropriate comments from specific points in history as they assume a person who lives in this time. The result will be a diary blog of 20 years in their lives with specific events as a backdrop. They will also collaborate on a work of knowledge that encompasses terms from this time period.


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TAPPING INTO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE/BUILDING BACKGROUND __**


 * Student samples**: Feather Chronicle - a family diary

Student generated body of knowledge ||