NewDeal

Examining the New Deal // With Patrick Maney, Boston College and Patricia Fontaine, University of Massachusetts Lowell // May 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Reading Memorial High School Distance Learning Lab

How did the Depression and the New Deal change the relationship between the American people and the federal government? Was the New Deal an effective response to the Depression? Professor Patrick Maney will answer these questions and more in an interactive lecture that keeps Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presence at the forefront. Classroom and interdisciplinary connections will be made through an examination of photographs, documents, film, radio, art, and literature related to 1930s America.

**Advanced Reading Assignment** (If for any reason you have trouble with Real Player for the Studs Terkel interviews click here for access to some of the recordings.)

Type up a brief (1/2 page to 1 page) written response to the questions listed under numbers 2 or 3 on the "New Deal Advanced Reading" document. Following your response to the questions indicate how you might use these sources with your students. Would you ask any additional questions? Provide any particular guidance for working with the sources? How would you set up the discussion and analysis?
 * To Hand In at the Seminar: **

**Session Resources**

Warm-up Activity: Strategies for Working with Historic Images || with break || FDR, the Great Depression, and the New Deal Professor Patrick Maney, Boston College || Professor Patricia Fontaine, UMass Lowell ||
 * Agenda**
 * 8:00 – 8:15 || Arrival and Breakfast ||
 * 8:15 – 9:00 || Welcome & Introductions
 * 9:00 – 11:30
 * 11:30 – 12:30 || Lunch (on own – local restaurants, school cafeteria, or brown bag) ||
 * 12:30 – 2:20 || Strategies for Using Local and Other Resources to Teach the New Deal
 * 2:20 – 2:30 || Classroom Applications Wrap Up Discussion & Closing ||

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