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Assignment

Essential Question: 

How do your primary sources (2) reflect an event from the 1930s?

With at least one secondary source (see databases), explain the historical context of your primary sources in a five paragraph essay.  Click for full assignment.

MyBib

MyBib.com is a free citation generator for MLA, APA, and Chicago style. Create a new Project & Add a Citation.  Choose website, book, journal, video, etc.  For database articles, click More then Write/Paste.  To copy or print your final list, click on Download Bibliography.  Click here for handout. Watch the video!

Primary Sources

Possible Topics Primary Sources Links to Primary Sources
  • The Dust Bowl
  • The Bonus March
  • The Stock Market Crash
  • Unemployment
  • The Okie Migration
  • The Repeal of Prohibition
  • Breadlines
  • Foreclosures and Hoovervilles
  • The New Deal
  • Speeches
  • Photographs
  • Letters
  • Editorial cartoons
  • Song lyrics
  • Newspaper articles
  • Magazine articles
  • Videos
  • Radio programs
  • Interviews
  • Exerpts from poems or books
    (such as The Grapes of Wrath)

You can also search for those primary sources in Google. Add Great Depression to your search.

Examples:
photographs great depression
radio programs great depression

Secondary Sources

Secondary Sources:

Read and take notes from each source. Paraphrase the main argument, bullet useful facts, and copy quotations that are imperative. Be sure to use MLA for each source while you are taking notes. 

Databases and Websites: 
You need at least TWO primary sources and ONE secondary sources.

      

For those databases that need a password at home, please enter montytech1 in all boxes.
For GVRL, search the History collection on the side for Great Depression and your topic.
For all other databases, search Great Depression and your topic.

Instructions for Citing a Primary Source Found on a Website

Original Author. "Original Title of Document." Original Print Publication Title in italics, Original Day Month Year, URL. Accessed Day Month Year.

Page, Ellen Welles. “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents.” The Outlook, 6 Dec. 1922, www.oldmagazinearticles.com/flapper_interview_1920s_flappers_rebe l#.WfCMRIFSzrd. Accessed 25 Oct. 2017.

Writing the Essay

Detailed Synthesis Outline Helper

First Paragraph

  • Hook sentence (Provide an interesting fact, statistic, or a quote about your topic)
  • Summary (In one or two sentences, summarize your main topic)
  • Thesis Statement (This can be a statement that outlines your paper. Ex: "The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was primarily responsible for the aftermath known as the Great Depression due to..." Mention two subtopics here)

Body Paragraph 1

  • Topic Sentence (Main idea of your main topic)
  • Background (Background of your topic: introduce two subtopics)
  • Introduce quotation (optional)
  • Provide an analysis of your secondary source (and/or quote if used).
  • Transition sentence (lead to your first subtopic)

Body Paragraph 2

  • Topic sentence (Main idea of subtopic #1).
  • Introduce first primary source. Refer to APPARTS chart.
  • Explain how primary source relates to your main topic using information from your secondary source.
  • Use these "action verbs" found here for help
  • Transition to subtopic #2

Body Paragraph 3

  • Topic sentence (Main idea of subtopic #2).
  • Introduce second primary source. Refer to APPARTS chart.
  • Explain how primary source relates to your main topic using information from your secondary source.
  • Use these "action verbs" found here for help

Conclusion

  • Restate Thesis Statement
  • Summarize Paper
  • Clincher Sentence
  • NOTE: You don't need to mention primary sources in your conclusion, but you can. It's optional.