The dizzying amount of artmaking and art-related documentation conducted during the great depression provides great opportunities to explore history through the arts. The Great Depression and the Arts, part of the New Deal Network, provides a useful set of resources that will help you and your students do just that.The site maintains a collection of four arts-oriented lesson plans developed by The National Center for History in the Schools and the Organization of American Historians. All of the material is designed to "impress upon students the varying effects of the Great Depression and New Deal on the lives of ordinary Americans." Teacher background materials, including related National Standards for U.S. History are also provided.
I am exploring Lesson Plan # 2: Documenting the Migrant Experience.
Image on this post: "The Migration of the Negro" by Jacob Lawrence.
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