America – from the1930‘s to the Civil Rights

What you should know about the society of your grandparents!

A WebQuest for 10th Grade English

Designed by

Mae Leigh Cooke

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," destitute in a pea picker's camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute. By the end of the decade there were still 4 million migrants on the road.

This picture and many others like itcan be found in a photo journal of the 1930‘s located at:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm

Introduction

To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, takes place in the 1930‘s, an age of poverty, simplicity, and prejudice of many kinds. For the next several days, you will search through the artifacts of this era and find out the rules that made up our society 70 years ago. With a partner, you will choose a specific topic of interest, collect data on your topic, write a relflection piece on what you learn and how you feel about America in the 1930‘s, and finally, create a visual representation of your findings to present to the class.

Topic Options

· #1 – The Great Depression

· a. Causes and Effects

· b. Living Conditions – food prices, housing, employment, etc.

· #2 – Court Cases concerning Civil Rights

· Plessy vs. Ferguson

· Brown vs. Board of Education

· Scottsboro Boys

· #3 – Civil Rights Movement

· #4 – Civil Rights Leaders

· Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Sigourney Truth, Caesar Chavez, Richard Wright

· Lesser know names – those who fought for the rights of all people through writing, speaking, boycotting, artistically, politically, etc.

· #5 – Jim Crow Laws + Effects

· #6 – Technology and Inventions of the 1930’s

· #7 – Fads, Fashion, Pastimes of the 1930’s

· #8 - Entertainment and Sports in the 1930’s

· Extra time? Find interesting facts on Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Requirements of Presentation & Poster

· Poster includes title and captions highlighting the most important information about your topic – minimum of 10 captions

· Present loud

· Displays several pictures or photographs that help us visualize the events, people, conditions, fashions, etc.

· Artistic and organized

· Two page reflection on:

· what you learned and

· how you feel about this information and

· how you would feel living in the 1930’s and

· how you see the role of prejudice in our society (all of the U.S.) today

Databases and Web sites for your WebQuest

American Culture – facts from 1930- 1939 ***For ALL topics! –Great sites!

http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade30.html

http://www.scs.sk.ca/edf/library/rcentereng_dep.htm

http://www.lindyhopping.com/1930-40.html

http://emints.more.net/ethemes/resources/S00000011.html

1930’s Fashion

http://www.wooster.k12.oh.us/highschool/studentprojects/Fashion%20Design/1930's.htm

http://www.costumes.org/pages/1930links.htm **

http://www.dare.k12.nc.us/khs/ag/5th/1930's/fashion.html

http://www.kenston.k12.oh.us/khs/computers/compapps/sweiner/decades_of_fashion.htm

1930’s Inventions

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/index.htm

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/1930s.html

http://www.northwinds.net/bchris/1935.htm

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cbc/radiotv/decades/1930/index.html

1930’s Entertainment

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/cherries.html

http://www.awod.com/war/ (The War of the Worlds)

http://www.otr.com/amosandy.html

http://www.liss.olm.net/loahp/loaww2.html

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1930.htm

http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/academic/projects/depression/depres11.htm

http://badassmovieimages.com/movies/decade-30s.html

1930’s Lifestyle & Events

http://www.foshay.k12.ca.us/Curriculum/TechAcad/Projects/The%20Grapes%20of%20Wrath/Main.html

http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/herzj/websites/fashion/gallerypages/1930.html

http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/academic/projects/depression/depres2.htm

http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/herzj/websites/fashion/gallerypages/1930.html

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html - news

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/talescalifornia.html –riding rails

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/techstuf/depressn/teacup.html –personal stories

The Great Depression and the New Deal

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

http://newdeal.feri.org/

http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/sammamish/sstudies.dir/hist_docs.dir/grtdepression.mn.html

http://www.amatecon.com/greatdepression.html

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html

http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/depression/

WEBQQUEST on Great Depression

www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/costgrap.gif

Jim Crow Laws

http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm

http://www.ushmm.org/olympics/zcc036a.htm

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/1/96.01.01.x.html

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

http://www.click2history.com/crow_laws/crow_laws_ch1.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm

http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/jcrow.htm

http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/laws.html

http://www.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec1_crow.shtml

Civil Rights Leaders

http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/civil_rights_documents_index.html

http://www.slider.com/Kids_and_Teens/People_and_Society/Biography/Civil_Rights_Leaders.htm

http://www.boondocksnet.com/cb/posters_civil_rights.html

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~ga~17067~~

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_rights_leaders.htm

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/king.html

http://www.civilrights.org/

Civil Rights Movement – memorable events

http://www.civilrights.org/

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

http://www.ghg.net/hollaway/civil.htm

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/

http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/tm.html

http://www.virtualscholar.com/cr/cr1.htm

COURT CASES concerning Civil Rights

http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/tm.html

Scottsboro Boys

**http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

http://www.courttv.com/greatesttrials/scottsboro/

http://www.courttv.com/greatesttrials/scottsboro/trials.html

http://www.decaturcvb.org/Pages/Press/scotboy.html

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm

**http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/scottsboro.html

Plessy vs. Ferguson

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html

http://www.virtualscholar.com/cr/cr2.htm

http://www.multied.com/documents/PlesseyvsFerguson.html

http://www.cps.ci.cambridge.ma.us/element/KingOpen/HumA/Jenn/

Brown vs. the Board of Education

http://www.digisys.net/users/hootie/brown/

http://www.nps.gov/brvb/

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html

http://www.virtualscholar.com/cr/cr1.htm

http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html

Great databases for almost anything –

www.encyclopedia.com

http://encarta.msn.com/hop/default.asp
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/gran44261?id=gran44261