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Mon Nov 2
Why did Americans stop trusting the banks?
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Tue Nov 3
The first fireside chat, read closely
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Wed Nov 4
What the Emergency Banking Act actually did
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Thu Nov 5
Whose confidence did Roosevelt need?
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Fri Nov 6
Seminar: a rescue, or a takeover?
Monday: lesson plan Open any file in Monday
- 8 min Photograph analysis: a 1933 bank queue On their own first, then one noticing each with a partner.
- 15 min Three accounts, one per group Each group reads for who is speaking and what they wanted.
- 16 min Structured share-out against the question Groups report in the order the sources were written.
- 8 min Exit ticket One sentence, on the source, written in the room.
47 minutes, because fourth period is 47 minutes.
From the FDR Library, Master Speech File 616, 12 Mar 1933
My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking — with the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking, but more particularly with the overwhelming majority of you who use banks for the making of deposits and the drawing of checks. I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress. It is your problem, my friends, no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail.
Kept 20 of 2,140 words. Sourced, not summarized.
Photograph analysis: a bank queue, 1933
Image: National Archives, 306-NT-165.319C
- What is happening in this photograph? List only what you can see.
- Who is not in this photograph, and how would you know to look for them?
- What would you need to read next before you trusted your answer?
One page, answered in class, on the source.
Monday’s writing is one sentence, written in the room, about a photograph the class is looking at together. The take-home version of this task is the one that stopped working.
This lesson’s materials include a note like this one, on what changed about the task and what to set instead.
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