Lesson Plan
The Not-So-Great Depression: Bud, Not Buddy
A lesson about the Great Depression doesn't have to depress your students! They will enjoy building background knowledge for *Bud, Not Buddy* with great interactive and cooperative learning tasks.
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Learning Objectives
Students will summarize text and cite quotes as evidence.
Introduction
(15 minutes)- Explain to the students that the class will be starting a new book titled Bud, Not Buddy.
- Show students the book and cover.
- Read aloud the inside cover to give students more information about what they will be reading.
- Elicit discussion by asking students questions about what the book will be about. Great questions should lead them to acknowledge the year 1936.
- Activate prior knowledge by asking them to discuss in their groups what is significant in American history during the 1930s.
- Have a whole group discussion and introduce the idea of the Great Depression.
- Explain that students will now build background knowledge on the Great Depression so they will be able to understand the setting of the story.
Beginning
- Allow students to perform a picture sort of several U.S. 1930s images.
Intermediate
- Compare and contrast several mixed images from the U.S. 1930s and modern America.