UnitIII:Day21,Monday

11/17
TitleofLesson:NewDealAgencies
Subject:AmericanHistory

Topic:FDRsNewDeal
Objective:Studentswill...identifytheagenciesestablishedbyFDRandtheirfunctions
Process(detailedlessonstrategies/activities):

QoD:
CreateandfilloutachartdisplayingKeyGoalsoftheNewDeal.

Lesson
Length(#of
class
periods):1

GroupActivity:
Studentsaredividedinto6groups
Theclassroomisarrangedinto6tables,anagencyoneachtable
Studentswillhaveabout57minutesateachtable
StudentswillfillouttheAgenciesworksheetaccordinglyandrotateafterthey
havecompletedthesection
ShareOut:
Askstudentswhichagenciesseemedtobethemostimportant,why
Askstudentstospeculatewhichstillexisttoday?
Whichshouldexisttoday?
RelatedFormativeAssessment:
Chapters16QuizFriday

ResourcesNeededforLesson:
Studentspirals,Pathwaystextbooks,Agencieshandouts,Agenciesworksheet

1.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) 1933

Theenvironmentprogramput2.5millionunmarriedmentoworkfor
maintainingandrestoringforests,beaches,andparks.Workersearned
only$1adaybutreceivedfreeboardandjobtraining.From1934to
1937,thisprogramfundedsimilarprogramsfor8,500women.The
programplantednearly3billionstreesandconstructedmorethan800
parks.TheCCCtaughtthemenandwomenofAmericahowtolive
independently,thus,increasingtheirselfesteem.

2.

Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA) 1933

TheAAAtriedtoraisefarmprices.Itusedproceedsfromanewtaxtopay
farmersnottoraisespecificcropsandanimals.Lowerproductionwould,
inturn,increaseprices.Farmerskilledoffcertainanimalsandcropsas
theyweretoldtobytheAAA.Manycouldnotbelievethatthefederal
governmentwascondoningsuchanactionwhenmanyAmericanswere
starving.Thiswasdeclaredunconstitutionallateron.

3. National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) 1933

Thedeclineintheindustrialpricesin1930scausedbusinessfailuresand
unemployment.TheNIRAwasformedinordertoboostthedeclining
prices,helpingbusinessesandworkers.TheNIRAalsoallowedtrade
associationsinmanyindustriestowritecodesregulatingwages,working
conditions,production,andprices.Italsosetaminimumwage.Thecodes
stoppedthetailspinofpricesforashorttime,butsoon,whenhigher
wageswentintoeffect,pricesrosetoo.Thus,consumersstoppedbuying.
Thecontinuouscycleofoverproductionandunderconsumptionput
businessesbackintoaslump.Somebusinessesfeltthatthecodeswere
toocomplicatedandtheNRAwastoorigid.Itwasdeclared
unconstitutionallateron.

4. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) 1934

TheFederalDepositInsuranceCorporation(FDIC)wasformedby
Congresstoinsuredepositsupto$2500.Insuredinstitutionsarerequired
toplacesignsattheirplaceofbusinessstatingthat"depositsarebacked
bythefullfaithandcreditoftheUnitedStatesGovernment."Sincethe
startofFDICinsuranceonJanuary1,1934,nodepositorhaslostasingle
centofinsuredfundsasaresultofafailure.

5. Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1935

Thisagencyprovidedworkfor8millionAmericansandattemptedto
decreaseunemployment.TheWPAconstructedorrepairedschools,
hospitals,airfields,etc.WPAhademployedmorethan8,500,000different
personson1,410,000individualprojects,andhadspentabout$11billion.
Duringits8yearhistory,theWPAbuilt651,087milesofhighways,roads,
andstreetsandconstructed,repaired,orimproved124,031bridges,
125,110publicbuildings,8,192parks,and853airportlandingfields.

6. Social Security Act (SSA) 1935

Thisactestablishedasystemthatprovidedoldagepensionsforworkers,
survivorsbenefitsforvictimsofindustrialaccidents,unemployment
insurance,andaidfordependentmothersandchildren,theblindand
physicallydisabled.AlthoughtheoriginalSSAdidnotcoverfarmand
domesticworkers,itdidhelpmillionsofAmericansfeelmoresecure.

Name:__________________________________________________Class:__________

New Deal Public Programs

Directions:Readandreviewtheprogramsateachtablewithyourgroup.Answerthe
followingquestionsincompletesentences.

1.

NewDealProgramName:
1. Whowastheprogramintendedtohelp?

2. Whatwasthisprogramintendedtodo?

3. DoesthisprogramfallundertheRelief,Recovery,orReformProgramof
RooseveltsNewDeal?Explain.


4. Howsuccessfuldoyoubelievethisprogramwasatrelievingtheeconomic
crisis?

5. HowdoesthisprogramaddtoyourunderstandingoftheGreatDepression?

6. Doyouthinkitstillexiststoday?Shouldit?

2.

NewDealProgramName:
7. Whowastheprogramintendedtohelp?

8. Whatwasthisprogramintendedtodo?

9. DoesthisprogramfallundertheRelief,Recovery,orReformProgramof
RooseveltsNewDeal?Explain.

10. Howsuccessfuldoyoubelievethisprogramwasatrelievingtheeconomic
crisis?

11. HowdoesthisprogramaddtoyourunderstandingoftheGreatDepression?

12. Doyouthinkitstillexiststoday?Shouldit?

3.

NewDealProgramName:
13. Whowastheprogramintendedtohelp?

14. Whatwasthisprogramintendedtodo?

15. DoesthisprogramfallundertheRelief,Recovery,orReformProgramof
RooseveltsNewDeal?Explain.

16. Howsuccessfuldoyoubelievethisprogramwasatrelievingtheeconomic
crisis?

17. HowdoesthisprogramaddtoyourunderstandingoftheGreatDepression?


18. Doyouthinkitstillexiststoday?Shouldit?

4.

NewDealProgramName:
19. Whowastheprogramintendedtohelp?

20. Whatwasthisprogramintendedtodo?

21. DoesthisprogramfallundertheRelief,Recovery,orReformProgramof
RooseveltsNewDeal?Explain.

22. Howsuccessfuldoyoubelievethisprogramwasatrelievingtheeconomic
crisis?

23. HowdoesthisprogramaddtoyourunderstandingoftheGreatDepression?

24. Doyouthinkitstillexiststoday?Shouldit?

5.

NewDealProgramName:
25. Whowastheprogramintendedtohelp?

26. Whatwasthisprogramintendedtodo?

27. DoesthisprogramfallundertheRelief,Recovery,orReformProgramof
RooseveltsNewDeal?Explain.

28. Howsuccessfuldoyoubelievethisprogramwasatrelievingtheeconomic
crisis?

29. HowdoesthisprogramaddtoyourunderstandingoftheGreatDepression?

30. Doyouthinkitstillexiststoday?Shouldit?

6.

NewDealProgramName:
31. Whowastheprogramintendedtohelp?

32. Whatwasthisprogramintendedtodo?

33. DoesthisprogramfallundertheRelief,Recovery,orReformProgramof
RooseveltsNewDeal?Explain.

34. Howsuccessfuldoyoubelievethisprogramwasatrelievingtheeconomic
crisis?

35. HowdoesthisprogramaddtoyourunderstandingoftheGreatDepression?

36. Doyouthinkitstillexiststoday?Shouldit?

UnitIII:Day22,Tuesday
11/18
TitleofLesson:SocialSecurityAct
Subject:AmericanHistory

Topic:SocialSecurityanditscontroversies
Objective:Studentswill...identifythedifferencebetweenrelief,recovery,andreform.
Process(detailedlessonstrategies/activities):

QoD:
Usingpage543,defineWagnerActanddescribetheeventsthatfollowedthis
legislature.
Introductionquestion:
Ifpeopleareoutofwork,shouldtheyreceivemoneyfromthegovernment
(whichcomesfromtaxmoney)?
Video:
Playhttp://historicalthinkingmatters.org/socialsecurity/
WhatisSocialSecurity?
Wheredoesmoneyforsocialsecuritycomefrom?
WheredidHueyLongthinkthemoneyshouldcomefrom?
WheredidTownshendthinkthemoneyshouldcomefrom?
Partnerwork:
HandoutDocumentsACandtheguidedquestions
ModelDocumentAasaclass
Letstudentsworkthroughtherestofthedocumentsinpairs
Classdiscussion:
BothNAACPrepresentativesandthewomaninDocCwereunhappywithSS.
Howdidtheirconcernsdiffer?
HowwouldFDRhaverespondedtotheircomplaints?
Whichaccountdoyouagreewithmost,why?

Lesson
Length(#of
class
periods):1

RelatedFormativeAssessment:
Chapters14&15QuizFriday

ResourcesNeededforLesson:
JusttheFactsDVD,videoworksheets

UnitIII:Day23,Wednesday
11/19
TitleofLesson:
TheNewDealsCritics

Subject:AmericanHistory

Lesson
Length(#
ofclass
periods):
1

Topic:
CriticismtowardFDRsNewDeal
Objective:StudentswillbeabletopointouttheshortcomingsoftheNewDealaswellasitspotentialfor

restrictingindividualfreedoms.

Process(detailedlessonstrategies/activities):

1. IndependentPractice:
a.

HandouttheNewDealCriticsCaptureSheettoeachstudent.

b.

StudentsneedtoreadtheNewDealsCriticssectionintheirtextbooks,pages545551and

filloutthechartaccordingtoeachsectionstitle.Thetablemustbefilledoutwithwhat
problemsthegroupsexpressedagainsttheNewDealandhowthoseconcernswere
addressedbyeachgroup.
c.

StudentsMUSTworkindividuallyandabsolutelyNOtechnologicaldevicesmaybeused
duringtheclassperiod.

d.

Aftercompletionoftheworksheet,studentswillshowtheirCOMPLETEDworkbefore
movingontothenextportion

2.

FormativePractice:Essay
a.

AfterastudenthascompletedtheNewDealCriticsCaptureSheet,handthemtheWritten
ResponseFDRsNewDealEssay

b.

StudentsmayusetheirNewDealCriticsCaptureSheet,aswellastheirtextbooksto
completetheessay

c.
3.

EverystudentmusthandbacktheWrittenResponsesheetsbeforetheyexittheroom

PlanB:
a.

Ifastudenthascompletedbothpartsofthelesson,remindthemtoworkonChapter16
packets

RelatedFormativeAssessment:
Chapter16QuizisthisFriday,Unit3SummativeTest11/25/14(NextTuesday)

ResourcesNeededforLesson:
NewDealCriticsCaptureSheet,WrittenResponsehandouts,theirAmericanHistorytextbooks.

Name:_____________________________________________________________________Class:_________

New Deal Critics Capture Sheet

Directions:ReadtheNewDealsCriticssectioninyourtextbooks(pages545551).Fillthe
followingchartwiththeproblemseachgroupexpressedagainstFDRspoliciesandagencies
andhowthosegroupsaddressedthoseconcerns.

Women

African
Americans

TooMuch

NotEnough

FatherCoughlin

HueyLong

UnitIII:Day24,Thursday
11/20
TitleofLesson:NewDeal:SuccessorFailure
Subject:AmericanHistory

Topic:Success,failures,andimpactsoftheNewDeal
Objective:Studentswill...makeadecisionwhethertheNewDealwasasuccessorfailure.
Process(detailedlessonstrategies/activities):

GroupWork:
DividestudentsintoTeamAandTeamB
TeamA:NDwasasuccess
TeamB:NDwasafailure
PassoutDocumentsAG
Studentsmustlooksatthesourcing:whowrotethedocument?Whatwasthe
motive?Isthesourcereliable?
Studentsworkwithintheirteamstostructuresoundargumentssupportingtheir
side
Debate:
TeamApresentstheirargumenttoTeamB
TeamBwillgivetheirargumentinreturn,keepprovingpointsuntilTeamAis
convinced
RepeatthesamewithTeamBsfirstpoint
Teamsmusttrytoteachconsensus
Debrief:
WastheNewDealassuccessorfailure?Whatevidencedidyouusetosupport
yourclaim?
Whatotherevidencewouldyouneedtopotentiallystrengthenyourpoints?
RelatedFormativeAssessment:
Chapters16QuizFriday
ResourcesNeededforLesson:
AGNewDealDocuments

Lesson
Length(#of
class
periods):1

UnitIII:Day25,Friday
11/21
TitleofLesson:Chapter16Quiz
Subject:AmericanHistory

Topic:FDRandtheNewDeal
Objective:Studentswill...showtheirunderstandingandevaluationoftheNewDeal.
Process(detailedlessonstrategies/activities):
Quiz:
Passoutthequiz
Studentsworkindependently
StudentswhodidNOTcompletetheSuccess/FailureEssayon
Wednesday,mustwriteitnow
Ifstudentsaredonewithquizzestheyhave2options:
Finishworkingonchapter16packets
Correctoldquizzes

Aftereveryoneisdone,allow5minutesforthemtousetheirresources
(binders,spirals,worksheets,packets,notes)tofix/completethequiz

Review:
Gooverexpectationsforwritingessays(UnitExamonTuesday)
Reviewtheorganizationprocessandhowtousetheirresources/documents

RelatedFormativeAssessment:
N/Athisisformativeassessment,UnitIIIExamonTuesday

ResourcesNeededforLesson:
Chapter16quiz

Lesson
Length(#of
class
periods):1

Name: _____________________________________________________ Period: ___________

Chapter 16 Quiz
New Deal
Part I: Matching match the letter with the appropriate term.
1._____ First Hundred Days
2. _____ Agricultural
Adjustment Administration

a. Paying out more money from annual federal budget than the
government recieves in revenues
b. FDRs response to critics, including more social welfare benefits

3. _____ American Liberty

League

c. A period of providing quick economic relief and creating jobs

4. _____ Second New Deal

d. A group that charged the New Deal with limiting individual

freedoms
e. Attempt to raise farm prices by providing financial assistance to
farmers

5. _____ Deficit Spending

6. _____ New Deal

a. Government funded projects to build public facilities

7. _____ Wagner Act

8. _____ Social Security Act

b. Legislation that allowed collective bargaining & set up National

Labor Relations Board
c. Roosevelts program of relief, recovery and reform.

9. _____ public works

programs

d. the total amount the government has to borrow and needs to pay
back.

10. _____ National Debt

e. Program that provided old age pensions for workers,

unemployment insurance & other benefits.

Part II: Multiple Choice Write the correct letter in the place below.
11. _____ Why did FDR declare a bank holiday early in his administration?
a. to cut off the use of cash
b. to weaken the banking industry
c. to inspect the financial health of the banks
d. to give people in the banking industry a well-earned vacation
12. _____ Which group of people were represented in FDRs New Deal?
a. White
b. Working class
c. African Americans

d. women
13. _____ Which of the following did New Deal programs fail to address?
a. protection of domestic workers
b. low prices for agriculture products
c. the decline in industrial prices
d. Native Americans need for schools.
14. _____ How was the Wagner Act a triumph for organized labor?
a. it created old-age pensions and survivors benefits
b. it raised crop prices for farmers
c. it allowed spying on union activities and blacklisting
d. legalized union practices such as collective bargaining and closed shops
15. _____ What types of insurance were NOT provided by the Social Security System?
a. unemployment insurance
b. old-age pensions and survivors benefits
c. provided minorities with large pensions
d. aid for dependent children, the blind, and the disabled
16. _____ The two New Deal established programs that exist today are
a. Agricultural Adjustment Administration and Social Security
b. National Industrial Recovery Act and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
c. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Social Security
d. Social Security and Civilian Conservation Corps
17. _____ What was the main critic of the New Deal?
a. it was generally less helpful to women and minority groups
b. it did not restore confidence in banks
c. it did not provide government-funded employment opportunities
d. white Americans thought it was too involved with minorities
18. _____ One of New Deals best achievements?
a. provided more equal opportunities for all
b. Social Security System improved benefits for women
c. it restores a sense of hope
d. it created an extremely powerful federal bureaucracy
19. _____ The Wagner Act
a. addressed Native American need for schools
b. led to a wave of dramatic strikes
c. excluded women from participating in picketing
d. made unions seem useless and unattractive
20. _____ Sit-Down Strikes
a. stirkes encouraging the use of violence against officials
b. proved to be too passive and ineffective in the workplace
c. finally convinced Henry Ford to support unionists
d. strikes in which employees refuse to work or leave the building

21. _____Why was the NAACP concerned with the Social Security Act?
a. because African Americans suffered from unemployment for than any other class
b. because African Americans believed the system tramped the forgotten man
c. because the organization was against heavy government involvement
d. because the organization considered it stealing
22. _____ In 1933 President Roosevelt promised what in his speech?
a. to establish programs to improve employment for minorities
b. to provide more employment opportunities for young women
c. to pass legislation to ease mortgage distress
d. to discourage unions and improve workplaces
23. _____ The Great Crash Cycle?
a. made businesses borrow even more money to produce goods
b. was prevented by banks efficiently distributing savings
c. began with risky loans in the 1920s that eventually hurt banks
d. increased demand for American-made goods
24. _____ One of the underlying cases of then Great Depression was?
a. lack of farmers
b. lack of speculators
c. unstable government
d. unstable economy
25. _____What happened to the price of food in the late 1920s?
a. prices increased due to overproduction
b. prices increased due to an increased demand
c. prices decreased because of underproduction
d. prices decreased due to decrease in demand
Part III. Short Answer Use the space provided to respond. Write in complete sentences.
31. To what extent did the New Deal do too much? To what extent did the New Deal do too little? Please reference
specific criticisms of the New Deal in your response. (15 points)
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LessonReflections:
Lesson
Monday,Day16:
NewDealAgencies

Whatwentwell:

Tuesday,Day22:
SocialSecurityAct

WhatIwoulddodifferently:

Mondaysareusuallydeaddays.Having
studentsmovearoundcreatedmoreenergy
andwillingnesstocompletetheirtasks.
Everygroupcompletedtheworksheets
Studentsheldagreatconversationabout
agenciesandspeculatedwhichagencieswe
shouldhavetodayandwhy.

Havegroupspresenttheir
starteragencyinsteadof
meleadingthediscussion

Primarydocumentsareawellestablished
routineintheclass
Somestudentswerepassionateabout
SocialSecurityandotherwelfareprograms
Hadathoughtfuldiscussionaboutwho
deservestobeonwelfare(somefriendly
debatewassparked)!

Somedisruptivebehavior,
hadtogoovercellphone
expectationsonceagain

Wednesday,Day23:
NewDealsCritics

Thursday,Day24:
NewDeal:Success
&Failure

Lessonflowedwellwithyesterdays
activity,broughtadeeperperspectiveinto
FDRspolicies

Iwasabsent:freshmanfieldtrip
Substituteteacherleftanoteinformingthat
studentswereabittalkative,butworked
well

Theentireweekreallypreparedstudentsto
makeadecisionwhetherNewDealworked
oritdidnot.
Studentsworkedwell,gotabit
competitive,butpresentedwellformulated
arguments
TheclassdecidedthattheNewDealdid
somegood,butalsoestablishedsomeof
theproblemsthatwehaveintodays
society

IfIhadknownthe
discussionwouldleadto
modernconcerns,Iwould
havepreparedmoreguided
questionsandresearcheda
bitmoreabouttheNew
Dealsinfluenceontodays
economyandsociety

Classaveragewentupby3percent:68%

Spendmoretimereviewing
vocabularyrightbeforethe
quiz.
Perhapsincludeasimple
vocabquizinthemiddleof
theweek

Friday,Day25:
Chapter16Quiz

Substituteteacherdidnot
presentclearexpectations
abouttheessays
Moststudentsdidnot
completetheiressays