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us history · the new deal · 4th period · nov 3–7
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Mon Nov 3
Why did Americans stop trusting the banks?
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Tue Nov 4
The first fireside chat, read closely
- lesson plan 47 minutes
- the chat, trimmed 12 Mar 1933
- evidence tracker one page
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Wed Nov 5
What the Emergency Banking Act actually did
- lesson plan paper, no devices
- sections 1–3 9 Mar 1933
- the act, annotated four of them
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Thu Nov 6
Whose confidence did Roosevelt need?
- lesson plan 47 minutes
- two papers, opposed Mar 1933
- discussion tracker one page
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Fri Nov 7
Seminar: a rescue, or a takeover?
- seminar plan 47 minutes
- seminar prep sheet one page
- seminar rubric one page
monday · lesson plan monday · lesson plan monday · the source, excerpted monday · slides monday · photograph analysis monday · ai note open any file in Monday
- 8 min Photograph analysis: a 1933 bank queue On their own first, then one noticing each with a partner.
- 15 min Three accounts, one per group Each group reads for who is speaking and what they wanted.
- 16 min Structured share-out against the question Groups report in the order the sources were written.
- 8 min Exit ticket One sentence, on the source, written in the room.
47 minutes, because fourth period is 47 minutes.
located: FDR Library · Master Speech File 616 · 12 Mar 1933 · 2,140 words
My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking —with the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking, but more particularly with the overwhelming majority of you who use banks for the making of deposits and the drawing of checks.I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.It is your problem, my friends, no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail.
kept 20 words of 2,140 · sourced, not summarized
Why did Americans stop trusting the banks?
The banking crisis, winter 1932–33
- Course
- US History · 3rd period
- Unit
- Unit 4 · Week 12 · Monday
- Objective
- Explain why depositors lost confidence in the banks.
What does this 1933 photograph tell us?
Two minutes of looking, before any reading
photograph · 1933
- What do you see? Name three things.
- What do you wonder?
- Who is not in this picture?
One source each. Read for the point of view.
Three accounts of the banking crisis
- Roosevelt’s first fireside chat, March 12, 1933
- A newspaper report on the bank holiday
- The Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933
Whose confidence did Roosevelt need, and how did he ask for it?
Whole class · ten minutes
In one sentence: what did Roosevelt ask the country to do, and why?
Exit ticket · one sentence · collect at the door
He asked the country to…, because…
Name ____________ · Period ____
Photograph analysis: a bank queue, 1933
image: National Archives 306-NT-165.319C
- What is happening in this photograph? List only what you can see.
- Who is not in this photograph, and how would you know to look for them?
- What would you need to read next before you trusted your answer?
one page · answered in class, on the source
Monday’s writing is one sentence, written in the room, about a photograph the class is looking at together. The take-home version of this task is the one that stopped working.
This lesson’s materials include a note like this one, on what changed about the task and what to set instead.
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