[LM_NET] Hit: 5th Grade Great Depression

[Ann Wonderly <awonderly@DCBE.ORG>]

Original Post:

I have a 30 minute lesson time with 5th graders.  Do any of you have a good idea of 
what I could do on the topic of The Great Depression in such a short amount of 
time.  The lesson will be in mid November.  I thought about talking about how 
Christmas trees were decorated with popcorn strings and paper loops.  I would like 
to have a picture book to read about it.  Any ideas?

Responses:

Try Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant-if you can get through it without tears!

The History of Us by Joy Hakim is a wonderful series that has all sorts of 
interesting information in it. You could read or copy a page or two and go over it 
with the students.  Maybe you could read an excerpt from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.


You might read The Hard-Times Jar - I think it's the depression era.


The Library of Congress has some excellent primary source sets you could 
adapt into a lesson.  They also have ready made lesson plans to look at.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ 


This is the only picture book I can think of, but it doesn't talk about
Christmas.
Title:  Spuds /
Author:  Hesse, Karen.
Publisher:   Scholastic
Publication Date:  2008.
Summary:  
     Maybelle, Jack, and Eddie want to help Ma by putting something
extra on the table, so they set out in the dark to take potatoes from a
nearby field, but when they arrive home and empty their potato sacks,
they are surprised by what they see. 
Subjects:  
     Potatoes--Fiction.
     Country life--Fiction.
     Great Depression--Fiction.

We are showing the Grapes of Wrath film and Kit Kittredge, providing free books, 
and doing a photography exhibit with pictures of our community during this 
era with some educational points with it.   I just ordered ten or more books 
yesterday related to the Great Depression for children.   I simply googled a 
list of suggested titles.


Ann Wonderly
Librarian
White Bluff Elementary School
White Bluff, TN
awonderly@dcbe.org

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