All-School Picture + HTCHS Debrief + New Deal Debate Prep

Today the 8th Graders:

• Spent some time being posed and photographed for the All-School Picture
• Discussing their visit with Holy Trinity Catholic High School students yesterday (which ended up taking place not at HTCHS but at the Cedarbrake Retreat Center. . .hence the modified photo in yesterday's blog post
• Received several handouts (chronology, cartoons, summaries, Important Points to Remember) on the New Deal for analysis and use in tomorrow's rescheduled New Deal Debate

Assignment for Thursday

1. Analyze the additional handouts on the New Deal given you in class today; write Pro-New Deal/Anti-New Deal notes on the handouts.
2. Come prepared to debate.

Quiz Prep-Brief Description of Great Depression/New Deal

Today the 8th Graders

• Read, analyzed, and discussed Brief Descriptions of the Great Depression & New Deal
• Worked together to prepare for tomorrow's Quiz over the GD/ND

Assignment for Tuesday: Quiz over Brief Descriptions of Great Depression & New Deal

Graph/Timeline of Business Cycle 1913-45 + Simulation Situation (Handout 43)

Today the Grade 8s:

• Reviewed the Graph/Timeline of the Business Cycle 1913-45, focusing specifically on the Bull Market of 1929, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and the approach of President Herbert Hoover in dealing with the Great Depression
• Did Handout 43, which set up a simulation situation in which they imagined themselves to be President Franklin D. Roosevelt coming into office in March 1932 and choosing from 10 policy options submitted by his advisers for dealing with the Depression.
• Ranked the 10 options in order of imagined effectiveness
• Wrote a paragraph stating and defending their own policy

Assignments

For Friday - Finish Handout 43: What Should Be Done About the Depression.

For Tue, 12/1- Quiz over "Brief Descriptions of the Great Depression and New Deal"