WGBH American Experience . Surviving the Dust Bowl . The New Deal Policies of the New Deal put millions of men back to work. In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly on a campaign promising a New Deal for the American people. Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal, an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression. Together with his “brain trust,” a group of university scholars and liberal theorists, Roosevelt sought the best course of action for the struggling nation. His first act as president was to declare a four-day bank holiday, during which time Congress drafted the Emergency Banking Bill of 1933, which stabilized the banking system and restored the public’s faith in the banking industry by putting the federal government behind it. The Civil Conservation Corps was one of the New Deal’s most successful programs.
The Path to Nazi Genocide — Media NARRATOR: Paris, 1900. More than fifty million people from around the world visited the Universal Exposition—a world’s fair intended to promote greater understanding and tolerance among nations, and to celebrate the new century, new inventions, exciting progress. The 20th century began much like our own—with hope that education, science and technology could create a better, more peaceful world. What followed soon after were two devastating wars. TEXT ON SCREEN: The Path to Nazi Genocide NARRATOR: The first “world war,” from 1914 to 1918, was fought throughout Europe and beyond. TEXT ON SCREEN: Aftermath of World War I and the Rise of Nazism, 1918-1933 NARRATOR: The humiliation of Germany’s defeat and the peace settlement that followed in 1919 would play an important role in the rise of Nazism and the coming of a second “world war” just 20 years later. Many veterans and other citizens struggled to understand Germany’s defeat and the uncertain future.
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What are adjectives? The Quick Answer Adjectives are describing words. The Different Types of Adjectives Adjectives are describing words. Possessive Adjectives Possessive adjectives are used to show possession. Read more about possessive adjectives. The Articles The words a, an, and the are known as articles. Demonstrative Adjectives Demonstrative adjectives are used to demonstrate or indicate specific things. Indefinite Adjectives Unlike demonstrative adjectives, which indicate specific items, indefinite adjectives do not point out specific things. Numbers Numbers are classified as adjectives too.
Creative Writing Prompts: Start with a Setting The DaVinci Code begins with a murder in the Louvre. The story of Sarah’s Key had to take place in France. In the case of Water for Elephants, the setting—the circus—moves with the story but is a complete world nonetheless. A setting does more than add interest; in fact, if your story can take place anywhere and nothing else in your story would need to change, rethink how you have used setting. I keep a list of settings. Of all the lists I keep, setting is one I use often. Choose a setting Write about what happens at a(n): __________ Academy Abbey Airport Alley(s) Alligator Farm Art Gallery Art Studio Artist Colony Auto Junkyard Ancient Pyramid Animal Sanctuary Animal Shelter Animal Research Facility Art Museum Aquarium Barber Shop Baseball Stadium Basement Beach Beauty Salon Blood Bank Blood Drive Bookstore Botanical Garden Bridge Buddhist Temple Cabin Castle Casino Cathedral Cave (Bat, Collapsed, Crystal) Cemetery Center for Disease Control Laboratory Cheap Hotel Chinatown (any city) Church Zoo 2.
Always Write: I Keep a Writer's Notebook alongside my Students. Do you? To my dear students and their wonderful parents, All students will maintain a writer's notebook for my class. Every day, we will write in it. Whether it's a composition book, a spiral notebook, or something leather-bound and fancier, when students enter my class, the first tool that finds their desktops is their writer's notebooks. I have baskets where students can safely store them after class, or they can choose to keep them with them, which many of my students do. Right from the start each school year, we will establish an important routine in my Language Arts class. What they write about during those ten minutes of SWT is completely up to my students. Make the absolute most of the ten minutes I give you every day to simply write. If you struggle with ideas to write about for your daily ten minutes from me, I have help I can offer you in the form on three documents. I have to write in my notebook during summer months too? My writer's notebook is available for perusal.
Trigger Events of the Civil War The Civil War was the culmination of a series of confrontations concerning the institution of slavery. 1820 | The Missouri Compromise This 1856 map shows the line (outlined in red) established by the Missouri Compromise. (Library of Congress) In the growth years following the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, Congress was compelled to establish a policy to guide the expansion of slavery into the new western territory. Ultimately, Congress reached a series of agreements that became known as the Missouri Compromise. Thomas Jefferson, upon hearing of this deal, “considered it at once as the knell of the Union. 1831 | Nat Turner’s Rebellion Nat Turner interpreted two solar eclipses as instructions from God to begin his rebellion. In August of 1831, a slave named Nat Turner incited an uprising that spread through several plantations in southern Virginia. Fifty-five slaves, including Turner, were tried and executed for their role in the insurrection. 1846 - 1850 | The Wilmot Proviso 1857 | Dred Scott v.
Living Legends: Oral History Projects Bring Core Subjects to Life Students become conduits between history and a person's life. Credit: Indigo Flores By the spring semester of his sophomore year, I was worried that Steven, one of my students at San Francisco's Balboa High School, was at risk of dropping out. He had a lot of support at school, but Steven's mom worked nights, and he seemed easily influenced by his friends who had already dropped out. As the school year passed, Steven became increasingly absent from class, and when he did appear, he seemed tired and inattentive. But when we started an oral history project for which I asked my students to record, transcribe, and publish interviews with people they knew who'd moved to California, Steven came alive. Steven presented his mother's history in her own words: "I wanted to get out of that horrible place. A similar magic occurred every time I assigned oral histories to my sophomore English classes. Pick the Right Topic Finding Interview Subjects Examples for Every Classroom Extend the project.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Interviewing Guide-Introduction Introduction Precious Legacies: Documenting Family Folklore and Community Traditions We hope that the Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide inspires you to turn to members of your own family and community as key sources of history, culture, and tradition. But where does one start? This booklet presents some guidelines Smithsonian folklorists have developed over the years for collecting folklife and oral history from family and community members. It features a general guide to conducting an interview, as well as a sample list of questions that may be adapted to your own needs and circumstances. In every community — in families, neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools — there are people who have knowledge and skills to share — ways of knowing and doing that often come from years of experience and have been preserved and passed down across generations. Bearers of Tradition: next > "Once a young man asked me, 'What was it like in your day?'
Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History IV. Issues in Oral History Research Once a project is under way, we need to assess and ensure the accuracy of the data gathered. We have to face the question: how accurate is this oral history? At the very least, we must be aware of the limitations of oral history in order not to mislead ourselves into believing that oral history automatically yields accurate renditions of past events. Because oral history depends upon living people as sources, we have limits; we can go back one lifetime.
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