Joey and his sister, Mary Alice visit their Grandma Dowdel every year during their summer vacation. They live in the big city of Chicago, while Grandma lives in a small Illinois town. We learn about small-town life during the Depression. There are seven short stories for the years 1929 through 1942. Grandma's life is different to say the least! Her town has many interesting characters. The story is told by Joe as an adult as he reminisces about those summer trips. Grandma's life makes for fun adventures.
As a small group, you will be exploring some of the topics that we read about in the book. When you have explored these topics you will be creating a power point or prezi to present to our class
For Example:
Summer Vacation. See how people used to spend their vacations at "Wayback". Explore the "Road Trips" page to see how other people have spent their summer vacations. Write about something funny that happened on your summer vacation. Compare your experience with Joey's.
- Wayback: Summer Vacation from PBS's The American Experience
- Biplanes. Joey got the chance to ride in a biplane. Choose a picture of a plane from the Internet. Write about the things you might see if you were flying over your town in this plane.
- Starduster Aircraft http://www.starduster.com/aircraft.html
- Cities vs. Small Towns. Compare and contrast life in the city and country. Where do you live? Would you rather live in Chicago or a small town in Illinois. Why?
- Grandma. The children spend summers with their grandmother. Read about Grandmothers. Write your own parent or grandparent poem. Read about Grandma Annie O'Neill. Write a story about an older person who is doing something great.
- Grandma (Poem) by D. Thibodeaux http://www.angelfire.com/home/barbin/poem.html
- "Grandma" (Article about a school volunteer) by A. O'Neill, Detroit News http://www.mppa.org/mppa/1994/feach-story2.html
- Depression. The first few stories took place during the Depression. How did the Depression affect the small town?
- Main Causes of the Great Depression by P.A. Gusmorino 3rd http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/
- Depression Years (Class project) from Point Grey Mini School, Vancouver, BC, Canada http://trinculo.educ.sfu.ca/pgm/depress/greatdepress.html
- America from the Great Depression to World War II from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
- Images of the Great Depression: A Photographic Essay by R.L. Stevens & J.A. Fogel http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/depression/stevens-fogel-photos.html
- Photo Essay on the Great Depression http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm
- Photographs of the Great Depression http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm
- Great Depression from eduScapes 42eXplore http://42explore.com/depresn.htm
- Simply pick a topic with your group and create a presentation to the class. 10 slides MINIMUM.
- Here are the presentation guidelines:
- 1. Keep the design simple:
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· Use a simple, non-cluttered design template such as Orbits or Refined.· Use easily read sans serif fonts such as APHont, Arial, or Verdana in minimum 24-point.· Be mindful of color contrast issues. In general, use light text on a dark background (yellow on black, white on dark blue, or white on black).· Do not convey information with color alone.· Limit the number of bullet points and total quantity of text per slide.(5 words per bullet, 5-7 bullets per slide)2. Verbally describe all graphics including tables, charts, and images during presentation.3. Images and Graphics
- Place graphics on the left with text on the right
- With a heading, a graphic can be centered
- Select high-quality graphics and illustrations
- Ensure that every image being used serves a purpose
- Clip art is not desirable
- Animated graphics can be distracting to your audience, unless they illustrate your point
- Use bar graphs and pie charts instead of tables of data, when possible. If you are using tables of data, make sure that the figures are large enough to be read by your audience.
- Ensure that you attribute each graphic on the same slide on which it appears (The font can be a small font, but must be visible)
- Dazzle your audience with information, not with graphics
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