Roaring ’20s, Great Depression, New Deal Unit Assessment
Letter Books are due on:
Monday – 802, 804
Thursday – 806
In case you misplaced your assessment sheet, here are the guidelines:
Roaring 20s, Great Depression, and the New Deal
The 1920s and 1930s were decades of great change in America. In this unit you will create characters all belonging to the same family from the time period. The characters in your family will write letters to family, to friends, to important people, and even to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt! Your family will experience the crazy swingin’ times of the ‘20s, the Stock Market crash lows, the depression that followed, and the opportunity to rebuild…once again. This is a familiar pattern in history!
YOUR ASSIGNMENT: You will create a book of letters and portraits. Each night your HW will be to write one letter. At the end of the unit, you will choose 3 of the letters and create final drafts of them. You will also draw at least 2 detailed portraits of the characters in your family. You must bind the 3 letters and the 2 portraits, and have it look like it was created in the 1920s and ‘30s.
CHECKLIST:
Choose 3 letters from your homework assignments that show the real highs and lows of this entire time period. You will need to rewrite them, add details, make ideas clearer, and fix grammar if necessary. Choose letters that show the changing times (i.e. 1 from the Roaring ‘20s, 1 from the Great Depression, 1 from the New Deal).
EXTRA CREDIT: If you include more than 3 letters, you will get more credit. However, they must be final drafts (revised and neatly presented).
Draw colored portraits of 2 members of your family.
EXTRA CREDIT: Draw an additional colored portrait of 1 PERSON A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY WROTE TO and label who it is (i.e. Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.)
You will need to present your letters and portraits in a BOOK. The book needs to look authentic, like it came from the 1920s and ‘30s.
TIPS:
You can stain your papers with tea, lemon juice, watercolor paint, etc.
Use brown toned paper that looks old
Don’t use lined-paper
Punch holes in the side of the papers and tie them together with string
Other parts of your grade are: if the information is historically correct, if you gave enough details, and your effort and participation in class.
Have fun with this project. A lot of your grade is presentation (what the book looks like)! Choose a good variety of letters to different people about different subjects. Make sure we get to know the family that you created and their experiences through the letters!
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uhhm . ms fuller . i sorta left my letterdraftthingies in school . in my locker . if i could have a one day extension that’d be nice . but yeah . im sorry . D:
Ms. Fuller
When i emailed my essay to my yahoo email it wasn’t there
Can i have a day of extension
I just have to print it and im done
Thx
Never mind.. Here’s the essay..
Stacy Chen 3/26/08
802 MS131
Ms. Fuller/ Ms. Myers S.S.
What should the government’s role be in keeping its citizens healthy?
What the government’s role should be in keeping its citizens healthy is to let everyone have free health care, even if they are poor. In the film Sicko, people in the country Canada, Britain, France, and Cuba have free health care. When these people need the doctor’s help, they would just go into the hospital and wait for help. When it’s their turn, they would go into the room, get examined, get medication, and then leave. They don’t even need to pay any hospital bills right after they’re finished. These details show that the Canadians, Britain, French, Cubans have a better life than Americans.
There are many ways to see that the government’s role should be keeping its citizens healthy. For example, when an American needs to go to the hospital and can’t pay their bills right after, they shouldn’t be dumped onto the street. Their bill should be lowered down to how much they can be able to pay in a limited amount of days. Also, people should be able to get their medical care even if they’re poor because doctors should be the ones that should care for patients more. Doctors should care for patients because once the patients are in their “care” or “hands”, its their responsibility to watch over them.
Another example is that people shouldn’t be able to choose which finger that should be fixed, because people have the right to keep their body parts attached to themselves. For example, when Ricky cut off both his ring and middle finger, the doctor/ hospital told him to decide fixing either his ring finger or his middle finger. To fix his ring finger, he had to pay $12,000 (12 grand). To fix his middle finger, he had to pay $60,000 (60 grand). People shouldn’t be able to decide which one to choose. They should be able to have the right to choose what they want, without choosing to loose what they possess.
The third example is that people shouldn’t pay for medication, because the price of the medication that they need might be extremely high so they can’t afford it. Prices of medication should be around $10 because it isn’t fair for Americans that the Canadians, Britain, French and Cubans’ medication is around 10 cents just for 1 medication. Also, when people are poor and they just have enough to pay the hospital bill, they can’t pay for the medication. The medication should be free if they’re included in the hospital bill because it is only fair that patients waste hundreds of dollars for themselves and another $50 just for 1 medication.
What the government’s role should be in keeping its citizens healthy is to let everyone have free health care, even if they are poor. If people were switched around with the government’s people, they would do the same. The government should have thought about this before saying what they said. Do you think you should pay for medical care even if you’re an American citizen? Don’t you have the right to choose if medical care should be free or not? I think that you should.
Ms.Fuller, I’m sorry that I am late for the project. It’s like everyday, I just couldn’t get all the work done. I’m really, really sorry. I hope you can understand and don’t take credits away from that…
Anyway, I finished it already and I can hand it in to you tomorrow…