New Deal Website
Well, I think I more or less skimmed all of the links (including the "classroom" ones). I took the greatest interest in the "Contributions" page in the "Archives in the Attic" subdivision of the site. The article, "Forty-Year Loan Repaid In Five By Chatham Negro Who 'Just Couldn't Sleep In Debt'" caught my eye. Basically, an African American man and his wife (Ollie and Flonnie Burnett) were the first to pay off a 40-year farm plan debt in a record-breaking 5 years under the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Purchase Act. I don't think we've gotten to the Farm Security Administration as yet (of which the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Purchase Act was a part of). Anyways, I enjoyed reading it.
By the way, I really liked the Grapes of Wrath lesson plan the site had (for the sake of "documentary realism", as the site calls it). Of course, this would probably take several days and we would have to hasten the learning of our original lesson plan afterwards.
Yeah...overall, I liked the site.
By the way, I really liked the Grapes of Wrath lesson plan the site had (for the sake of "documentary realism", as the site calls it). Of course, this would probably take several days and we would have to hasten the learning of our original lesson plan afterwards.
Yeah...overall, I liked the site.
posted by Raina | 3:27 PM
1 Comments:
I liked most of the main links, it was easier to skim throught compared to the photo gallery. I didn't read the article about the debt, sounds interesting though. Its too bad more people, like the Burnetts, took the intiative to end their debt despite the Depression.
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