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Promoting Critical Thinking and Thoughtful Discussion. Response Groups: Reaction to the New Deal Editorial Cartoons: The Immigrant Experience. Promoting Critical Thinking and Thoughtful Discussion. Persistent Issue : What should be done to help those who are poor and needy? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Promoting Critical Thinking and Thoughtful Discussion
• Response Groups: Reaction to the New Deal
• Editorial Cartoons: The Immigrant Experience
Promoting Critical Thinking and Thoughtful Discussion
Persistent Issue: What should be done to help those who are poor and needy?
Central Question: Was the New Deal the appropriate response to the Great Depression?
Unit Placement: After examination of the various New Deal programs
Lesson Goals: Empathize with multiple views on ND policies Evaluate arguments and make own assessment
Response Group Strategy: Two-tiered discussion
Four-person heterogeneous groups
Provide with stimulus material and foundational knowledge
Series of critical thought questions
Small group discussions; appoint different presenter for each question
Presentation of small group conclusions; whole class discussion
Lesson Introduction
Was the New Deal the appropriate response to the Great Depression?
• Share the Wealth Plan• Re-distribute the wealth• Every family: House, car, ed. for children, pensions, $2,000-3,000 guaranteed income
• Other Critics• Father Charles E. Coughlin
• Take action against banking & money interests
• Dr. Francis E. Townsend• Pay everyone over 60 $200/month
Hewey Long: New Deal does not go far enough
• Why do you think FDR did not take the more radical course of action proposed by Long and others to combat the problems of the Depression?
• What do you think would have happened if he had?
• What is your interpretation of this cartoon?
• What is the cartoonists’ point of view?
• What sectors of American society do you think opposed the New Deal? For what reasons?
Conservatives/Republicans: New Deal is an excessive intervention in the free market
• Cripples business with heavy taxes and regulations
• American Liberty League: Combat radicalism; preserve poverty rights
• Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas: Republican opponent in 1936 election: FDR becoming a dictator like Adolf Hitler in Germany. He was over powering the legislative and judicial branches.
• Whom does the Forgotten Man represent?• In what ways has FDR remembered him?• What do you think is the cartoonist’s intended message?
• What do you think is the artist’s intended message?
FDR and Court Packing
• Supreme Court struck down NRA, AAA, and three other ND laws - fed going beyong Constitutional limits on regulating economy
• FDR threatened to increase from 9-15 justices if refused to retire at age 70
• Split Democratic Party, cost FDR support
• Plan rejected by Senate, SC did change mind
• Depression much worse for blacks• Last hired; first fired
• New Deal effects mixed• Thousands employed• Some discrimination allowed in programs
• FDR appointed some black advisors
• FDR denounced lynchings; refused to support federal anti-lynching law
• If you were a black citizen living during the Depression, would you have supported FDR?
Lesson Closure
• Summarize differing viewpoints and arguments
• Draw an editorial cartoon taking a position on the New Deal
Comparing Eras with Editorial Cartoons
ScaffoldingUnderstandingOf EditorialCartoons
• What is missing?
The power of the personal account- Zellner case
Two types of accounts Teacher-collected Student-produced
Using personal accounts in class
Using Personal Accounts: Oral History