Content-Standards

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a. Discuss the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, the Dust Bowl, and soup kitchens. b. Analyze the main features of the New Deal; include the significance of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. c. Discuss important cultural elements of the 1930s; include Duke Ellington, Margaret Mitchell, and Jesse Owens.====== a. Locates facts that answer the reader's questions. d. Identifies and uses knowledge of common organizational structures (e.g., chronological order, logical order, cause and effect, classification schemes). e. Distinguishes cause from effect in context. f. Identifies and analyzes main ideas, supporting ideas, and supporting details. g. Makes perceptive and well-developed connections. h. Relates new information to prior knowledge and experience and makes connections to related topics or information.
 * English/Language Arts Standard:**
 * ELA5R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.**
 * ELA5W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.**