3.+Unit+Other+Evidence

Unit: "Other Evidence"

Evidence needs to be collected to show that students understand the unit established goals, essential questions, enduring understandings, knowledge and skills.

1**) __Unit Test:__ "The Great Depression and the New Deal"** The final assessment piece of this unit will evaluate student progress in achieving each of the target standards. Students will take a unit test that consists of multiple choice and open response questions to better prepare students for the district's CATS testing. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 sought to lessen the effects of the Depression by a) paying farmers to cut production and, in some cases, destroy crops. b) purchasing farms and turning them into government collectives. c) instituting an early retirement program for farmers over the age of 50. d) encouraging farmers to increase production. e) subsidizing food processing plants in order to lower food prices.
 * Sample questions on test:

ORQ: A) Identify 2 programs from Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Plan that you think were the most effective. B) Describe how each program works. Explain how these programs were effective. C) Describe the kinds of people aided by these programs. Explain why the Federal government helped these groups of people? D) Identify economic and cultural problems with the solutions these programs may have provided.

Example Discussion Questions: Rubric: Rubric: Class Discussion
 * __2) Class Discussions:__**
 * Explain how our economy has changed over the past several years.
 * What do you think can be done to improve America's economy?
 * Explain how propaganda was used to attract the Okies to California.

Example Journal Entry Questions: Rubric: Rubric: Journal Entry Rubric
 * __3) Journal Entries:__**
 * Describe how America's current economic situation has affected you and your family.
 * Describe how the journey on Mother Road may have been like for a child during 1930s.
 * What did today's reading or lesson remind you of?

__**4) Academic Prompt:**__ [|www.utsa.edu/today/ 2009/02/gradwriting.cfm]
 * How effective was FDR's New Deal Plan?
 * Tell me about the social impacts the Great Depression had on America and its citizens. Tell me the social impacts America's current economic has had on you and you family. [[image:http://www.utsa.edu/today/images/graphics/writing3.jpg caption="writing"]]