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 US History · Week 12 · 3rd period 
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 8:15 Reading day Primary source Chart it Writing Archive walk 
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 US History · The New Deal · Week 12 
Tuesday: did the New Deal work?
 Objective. Evaluate whether the New Deal restored confidence.
 Hook. One radio address, read cold, no framing.
 Work. Close read in pairs, then a whole-class chart.
Close. Two sentences on the board.
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RH.9-10.2

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  Did the New Deal work? 
Franklin Roosevelt’s first fireside chat, March 12, 1933
  Course  US History · 3rd period 
  Unit  Unit 4 · Week 12 · Tuesday 
  Objective  Evaluate whether the New Deal restored confidence. 
 What are these people waiting to find out? 
Depositors outside a closed bank, February 1933
  photograph · bank closure  
What do you see? Name three things.
What do you wonder?
What year would you guess, and what gave it away?
 What is he asking them to do? 
Paragraph 9, read it twice
 
“I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.”
 Fireside chat on the banking crisis, March 12, 1933   Reader 1: what does he promise?
Reader 2: what does he ask for in return?
 
 Sort the address into three columns. 
Whole class, on the board
What he promises
Only solvent banks reopen
The bank holiday ends
What he asks for
Bring the money back
Do not rush the window
What would count as proof
 Did the country have reason to believe him? 
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They did / did not have reason to believe him, because…

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Fireside chat · March 1933 · public domain

“I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a
										reopened bank than under the mattress.”
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Tuesday: did the New Deal work?
What is Roosevelt asking people to do?
Who is he trying to reassure, and why them?
What would you need to know to be sure?
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Two sentences, your words.
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1 · leave the money in the bank
2 · depositors who had already pulled out
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