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Linking Content and Strategies

The ability to integrate history with literature is a transferable skill that can be applied to many topics. It is also one of many strategies for introducing students to the Great Depression and the New Deal.

Journal: Apply This Strategy to Other Content Areas

Think about the applicability of integrating literature with some other topic in the history classroom. In your journal, describe an activity using this strategy that you might incorporate with a different history topic. List specific pieces of literature that you might use to teach the topic.

Journal: Apply Other Strategies to This Content Area

Think about other strategies that you could apply to this topic (the Great Depression and the New Deal) to help students understand the enormity of the Depression crisis and the human cost of this economic disaster. Consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach in shaping an understanding of the historical event or phenomenon. Describe the strategies in your journal.

To see a list of teaching strategies that could be applied to this and other topics in history, see Strategies.

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