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Cows and Horses are Hungry: Plight of the Farmer

Dust Bowl

Farm Security Administration

Relief and Recovery for Workers

Shantytown Video

Subsistence Farmsteads

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African Americans and the New Deal

Amistad: The Great Depression

Britannica Article

Impact of the Great Depression

New Deal and Black Americans note: some of this is primary source work and reflects the language of the time)

New Deal and Depression

Race Relations

Roosevelt's New Deal: Minorities

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1930'a America: Feminist Void? (this paper is not recent but still relevant)

Impact of the Great Depression

Roosevelt's New Deal and Women

Why Married Women Were Banned From Working

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America's Forgotten History

Anti-Immigrant Frenzy

Depression and the Struggle for Survival

Depression, War and Civil Rights

Forced repatriation of Mexican Immigrants

Immigrant Life

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Child Labor

How Welfare Began in the United States

Impact of the Great Depression

Letters from Children to Eleanor Roosevelt

National Youth Administration

Riding the Rails: Homeless and Transients (see section on youth)

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Banking Panic

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

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Stock Market Crash of 1929

Stock Market Crash

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Choose a perspective from the columns to the right. Your choices are:

African American

Artist/Actors

Banker or Broker

The Elderly

Factory Worker or Industrial Laborer

Farmer/Fisherman/Agricultural Laborer

Immigrant

Small Business Owners

Women

Youth

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Using the links provided, research what life was like during The Great Depression for the type of person you chose. Be sure to look for specific historical events that would have affected a person from this perspective.

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3. Write a free-verse poem from that Perspective. 

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3. Write a free-verse poem from that Perspective. 

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In the style of Karen Hesse's novel Out of the Dust, write a VERSE Biography (longer than a poem) telling what life was like for that person during The Great Depression. You can break it up into a series of smaller poems with individual titles (like Hesse does) or you can write it as one very long poem. The poem(s) should provide a detailed picture of what that person is experiencing because of The Great Depression and should reference specific historical events.

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Create a Works Cited for your sources. (Message Mrs. Sanborn if you need help with this.)
Your Works Cited will be on a separate page from your poem(s). If the source comes from the Gale Database, just use the Cite Tool in the database to make your citation. If the source comes from a website, make sure your citation has these 5 elements:
1. Author name: ex. Smiley, Gene..
2. Article Title in Quotation Marks: ex. "Great Depression."
3. Web Site name in ITALICS: ex. The Library of Economics and Liberty,
4. The date of publication (if provided): ex. 5 August 2015,
5. The URL: ex. https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GreatDepression.html
Try the activity below to help you:

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History Hub

The Library of Economics and Liberty: Great Depression

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How Welfare Began in the United States

Great Depression: American Social Policy

Impact of the Great Depression

Social Security Act

Social Security's Past Present and Future

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Civilian Conservation Corps

Fair Labor Standards Act

NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.

Relief and Recovery for Workers

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The Hundred Days and Beyond (Use CTRL F and type "small business" to see where this article is relevant.)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1940

Firsthand accounts of The Great Depression

The Great Depression Interviews

Making Ends Meet in The Depression

Survivors of The Great Depression Tell Their Stories

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The Artist and the Intellectual

The Federal Theatre Project

Works Progress Administration

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Resources for facets of society that affected everyone as a whole. 

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Resources for facets of society that affected everyone as a whole. 

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Everyday life 1929-1941

Everyday Living

Food 1929-1941

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If you decide to interview someone who personally lived through The Great Depression (this would be someone in their late 80s or 90s or beyond) you can cite that interview as a source. Remember, human memory is fallible, so be sure to check the dates of any historical events against a reliable published source.
Here is the formula for citing a personal interview:
1. Name of Interviewee (the person you interview).
2. Description of event.
3. Date of event.

See example below:

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Use the following formula:
1. Name of interviewee.
2. Description of event and name of interviewer.
3. Name of website in italics,
3. Date posted,
4. URL
See example below: