DO NOWDO NOW--Using your homework from last Using your homework from last

night (Chapter 22, Section 2 in night (Chapter 22, Section 2 in your books) prepare to your books) prepare to interview a survivor of the interview a survivor of the Great Depression.Great Depression.

Your interview should be at least Your interview should be at least 16, in-depth questions 16, in-depth questions designed to get at the heart of designed to get at the heart of what it was like to survive such what it was like to survive such a difficult period in our history.a difficult period in our history.

Also designate who (i.e. business Also designate who (i.e. business man, teen-age kid, mother of 4, man, teen-age kid, mother of 4, etc.) you would like to interview etc.) you would like to interview on the topic.on the topic.

AGENDAAGENDA-- Do-NowDo-NowSongs, Lyrics, & Video ClipsSongs, Lyrics, & Video ClipsNotesNotes

Wednesday, February Wednesday, February 44thth

HOMEWORKHOMEWORKCURRENT EVENT Due CURRENT EVENT Due FridayFridayTOPIC: Depression 2.0?TOPIC: Depression 2.0?

• Find an article relating our current financial crisis to the Great Depression (1930’s era)

• Write a 2 paragraph summary explaining how today is or isn’t like History repeating, according to your article.

Note: If you cannot find an article comparing today to the 1930’s, do the “relating” part, yourself.

Music & Video ClipsMusic & Video Clips

Brother can you spare a dimeBrother can you spare a dimehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU

Woody Guthrie MontageWoody Guthrie Montagehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7mBEXaMNQ&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7mBEXaMNQ&feature=related

Dust Storm ExperienceDust Storm Experiencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO722_ORi58http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO722_ORi58

Questions to ponderQuestions to ponder

►How did poverty spread during the How did poverty spread during the Great Depression?Great Depression?

►What social problems were caused?What social problems were caused?

►How did some struggle to survive How did some struggle to survive hard times?hard times?

And they thought it wouldn’t And they thought it wouldn’t last…last…

►Hard times continue, and spreadHard times continue, and spread Those who never dreamed of asking for Those who never dreamed of asking for

help, did help, did Banks closed, savings lostBanks closed, savings lost Jobs lost, no money for rentJobs lost, no money for rent Eviction and homelessness the next stepEviction and homelessness the next step

The Fire This TimeThe Fire This TimeTime Magazine’s Special Report on the Time Magazine’s Special Report on the

California wildfires of October 2007California wildfires of October 2007

The Dust BowlThe Dust Bowl1930’s Era Natural Disaster1930’s Era Natural Disaster

History Looks Familiar…History Looks Familiar…

An ill windAn ill wind

• Pepperdine University student Emily Roth, far left, and friend Michael Richards shield themselves from heavy ash and smoke that blanketed the school’s Malibu, Calif. Campus and caused classes to be cancelled for two days. 2007. (Time Magazine)

• Inset photo: The dust is too much for this farmer's son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. 1936. (Library of Congress)

Fleeing with their livesFleeing with their lives

Santa Ana, CA, October 22,2007 - The smoke from the fireis drifting South.  Visibilitydropped to about 1/4 mile withash raining down like a lightsnow flurry. The Sun wasblocked out and only an orangeglow lit the sky.  

A black blizzard over Prowers Co., Colorado, 1937. (Western History Collection, University of Oklahoma)

HomesHomes

Smoke from the wildfire approaches Carlsbad, California.

Photo Date: October 22, 2007

Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas Photo Date: April 18, 1935

A view from aboveA view from above• Oct. 21, 2006 Smoke rises from a

wildfire driven by powerful winds in the Malibu Hills. Gale-force winds blowing from the desert fan the inferno and spread the smoke dozens of miles out to sea.

• Aerial view of the beginning of a dust storm over the prairie lands east of Denver. Northerly winds are removing topsoil and then the clouds of dust were raised as high as 16,000 feet by colliding southerly winds. Prevailing west winds then carried some of the dust as far east as the Atlantic coast. In: "Monthly Weather Review," June 1936.

FamilyFamily

February, 1936, Nipomo, California. The Dust Bowl and drought devastated some farm families in the early 1930's, such as this 32 year old mother of seven.

"Migrant Mother", black and white photograph by Dorthea Lange, (Library of Congress)

Oct. 21, 2007: Andrea Mock evacuates her home with her two scared children and husband as the fires near their home in Irvine, California

Now read the article “The Fire This Time” from Time Magazine’s November 5, 2007 issue and with a partner, complete the reading guide.

If you finish early, begin brainstorming the discussion questions with your partner, we will go over these as a class.