The Task

President Franklin Roosevelt needs your help!!

What is your expertise?

These are the expert roles that you will take on as you research about the Great Depression.

You want President Roosevelt to know what impact the depression had on everyone in your community. 

• You and your group members will each be assigned one of the roles listed above. 
• You will examine the Great Depression from your assigned perspective. 
• You will be required to write a letter to President Roosevelt from that perspective. 
  • What impact has it had on farming? 
  • The banks?
  • The labor market?
  • What kind of political state is the country in?
• You will also be required to find pictures, text etc. from the great depression to include in a group collage. 
  • You will only need to find pictures that have to deal with your expertise. 
• Later, your group will cut and paste the images and other text onto a poster board to make a collage about the Great Depression
• HAVE FUN!

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