Social Studies HS Guide

PACING

RESOURCES

● “Whatdunnit?” Great Depression Mystery (various activities and readings) ● Khan Academy- Great Depression

● See US History II Year at aGlance ● Work together as a

PLC to determine individual standard pacing.

STANDARDS

Students will investigate how individual and institutional decisions made during the 1920s led to the boom of the 1920s and then the Great Depression. CONCEPTS (Nouns) SKILLS (Verbs) LANGUAGE SUPPORTS ● Decisions ● Investigate

● Explain ● Best Practices for MLs in Secondary Content Area Classes

● 1920s ● Boom ● Great Depression

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

● Identify and explain the boom of the 1920s. ● Identify and explain the Great Depression. ● Investigate how individual and institutional decisions made during the 1920s led to the boom of the 1920s. Examples may include: ○ Consumer spending and credit ○ Stock market investment ○ Entrepreneurial innovation ○ Federal reserve policies - low interest rates ○ Government policies - Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 ○ Technological advances and mass production ● Investigate how individual and institutional decisions made during the 1920s led to the Great Depression. Examples may include: ○ Speculative investment ○ Overproduction and unsustainable consumption ○ Banking practices ○ Government Policies - Smoot-Hawley Tariff - 1930 ○ Agricultural Sector Issues ○ Stock Market Crash

VOCABULARY ● 1920s ● Boom

● Great Depression