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"

Phases of the Business Cycle + Graph/Timeline on Business Activity 1913-1945 + Stock Prices in 1929 & 1932

Today our 8th Graders:

• Learned the 4 Main Phases of the Business Cycle: Prosperity--Recession--Recovery--Depression
• Analyzed a graph/timeline showing The Business Cycle 1913-1945
• Wrote what they noticed about economic development in the USA during the years indicated
• Color coded the graph/timeline by time period
• Analyzed a handout showing stock prices in 1929 and 1932

Assignments

For Wednesday

1. Read and study "Brief Descriptions of the Great Depression and New Deal - Quiz Thursday
2. Try to do the handout on the Stock Market Crash; it shows what happened to stock prices in the Crash of 1929 and then how they were by 1932, three years into the Great Depression.

• As we were running out of time today, give it a try (especially if Mrs. Holbrooke was able to assist you) and if you can't quite get the hang of it, we'll work on it in class on Wednesday and make it due Thursday.

For Thursday - Quiz over "Brief Descriptions of the Great Depression and New Deal"