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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tuesday, January 18th

Advanced American History


As we begin to culminate our study of the Great Depression and New Deal era, we are going to examine some of the nuts and bolts of the most noteworthy of all legislation from the New Deal era, the Social Security Act of 1935.  In small groups, answer the questions (handout) related to the background and overview of Social Security from the following website:

PBS Social Security NewsHour

Be prepared to discuss what you find here in class on Wednesday!


American Studies

After discussing the philosophy and actions of the New Deal era, we listened to music from the Depression era and discussed how it reflected societal problems of the age.

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