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What are we doing today?
1. We are writing and responding to questions about the Great Depression
2. We are supporting our responses with textual evidence
3. We are responding to text-specific interpretive questions and supporting our responses with textual evidence
4. We are comparing and contrasting text and other sources
5. We are imitating how successful writers write by analyzing sentence structure


GROUP # 1
Group # 1 Go to this url http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/sfeature/eyewitness.html
and read two web pages. As you read the two pages, you will do the following:

Member # 1. Summarize the podcast.
Member # 2. Choose a moment that resonates with you and explain why it appeals to you.
Member # 3. Answer this question, "How did people suffer during the Great Depression?"
Member # 4. Choose three long sentences and explain how they are combined.
Member # 5. Explain what you learn from this web page and support your response with evidence from the web pages








GROUP # 2
Group # 2
Go to this url http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/406536
and watch this podcast. As you watch this podcast, you will do the following:

Members # 1 and # 2: Write the script of the podcast.
Member # 3: Summarize the podcast.
Member # 4. Choose a moment that resonates with you and explain why it appeals to you.
Member # 5. Answer this question , "Why was this period called The Great Depression?"
Member # 6. Write two sentences from this podcast, combine them and explain how you have combined them.
Member # 7. Explain what you learn from this podcast and support your response with evidence from the web pages.



GROUP # 3
Group # 3 http://web.mac.com/gileshill/iWeb/history%20at%20hand/GCSE%20Podcasts/ED7BF06C-1E5D-4B1A-9861-4EB9D3AFDD8B.html
and watch this podcast. As you watch this podcast, you will do the following:
Member # 1: Summarize the podcast.
Member # 2. Choose a moment that resonates with you and explain why it appeals to you.
Member # 3. ??(open-ended),
Member # 4. Write two sentences about this podcast, combine them and explain how you have combined them.
Member # 5. Explain what you learn from this podcast and support your response with evidence from the web pages.

GROUP # 4
Group # 4
Watch an excerpt from the play "Annie" and sing along. As you watch this excerpt and sing along to the song "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile", you will do the following:
Member # 1: Summarize the song.
Member # 2. Choose a moment that resonates with you and explain why it appeals to you.
Member # 3. Explain how this song relates to the Great Depression.
Member # 4.Choose three sentences from this song, combine them and explain how you have combined them.
Member # 5. Explain what you learned from this podcast and support your response with evidence from the lyrics




GROUP # 5
Group # 5
Watch the music video and listen to the song, "Keep Holding On". As you watch this video and sing along to the song, you will do the following:


Member # 1: Summarize the song.
Member # 2. Choose a moment in the song that resonates with you and explain why it appeals to you.
Member # 3. Explain how this song relates to the Great Depression.
Member # 4. Choose three sentences in this song, combine the sentences and explain how you have combined them.
Member # 5. Explain what you learned from this music video and support your response with evidence from the lyrics.


GROUP # 6
Group # 6
Watch the slide show. As you watch this slide show, you will do the following:
Member # 1: Summarize the slide show.
Member # 2. Choose a moment that resonates to you and explain why it appeals to you.
Member # 3 and 4. Explain what pictures in this slide show tell you about the Great Depression.
Member # 5. Write three sentences about a picture in this slide show, combine the three sentences and explain how you have combined the sentences.
Member # 6. Explain what you learned from this slide show and support your response with evidence from the slide show.


GROUP # 7
Group # 7
Watch the video. As you watch this video , you will do the following:
Member # 1: Summarize the video.
Member # 2. Choose a moment in the video that resonates with you and explain why it appeals to you.
Member # 3. Explain what would happen if the Great Depression happens today and support your answer with evidence from the video.
Member # 4. Write two sentences about this video and combine them. Explain how you combined the sentences.
Member # 5. Explain what you learned from this video and support your response with evidence.


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