Introduction
This WebQuest will take you on a journey through the time period of Bud, Not Buddy. You have learned about the time period of The Great Depression through Bud's eyes, and now you will research the time period through a historical perpsective. You will continue making world-text connections throughout your research while thinking about how this new information affects your original inferences and visualizations.
What was it like to live during the time period of the book?
Task
You will use this WebQuest to research the time period of The Great Depression. You will gather as much detailed information as you can, focusing on a topic of your interest. This will allow you to share your expertise with your literature circle. at the ned of class.
Possible Topics:
Economy
Society
Famine
Agriculture
Arts
Entertainment
News
Geography
Process
You will get into your literature circles and assign the following roles:
- Discussion directior
- Task manager
- Summarizer
- Connector
1. Discuss the topic each individual might choose to focus their research so that partners can join together or revisions can be made.
2. Take detailed notes in your Reading Journal paying close attention to dates, people, places, shocking info, world-text connections, and things to share with the class.
3. For the last 30 minutes of class you will share your findings with your group
4. Begin!
Evaluation
Checklist of things you should have in your Reading Journal:
- At least a page of detailed notes from your WeQuest research
- At least a half-page of text-world connections to the book
- At least a half-page of examples of how your research has affected your original inferences or visualizations
- At least 2 compelling things to share with the class and why they were of particular interest to you.
Conclusion
This WebQuest should have helped you fill out the H portion of your KWHL chart as well as your timeline.
This research should have provided some answers to the K portion of your KWHL in chart inregars to what you would like to know.
As well as providing some answers, it should have provided you with more questions and things to continue thinking about.
Reflect on how this research has helped you undertsand the setting of the book more
Reflect on how this research will inform your future inferences and visualization going into the second half of the book.
Credits
The Resources you will use are:
How The Great Depression Affected Children
Teacher Page
Standards
NCSS: Time, Continuity, and Change
Through the study of the past and its legacy, learners examine the institutions, values, and beliefs of people in the past, acquire skills in historical inquiry and interpretation, and gain an understanding of how important historical events and developments have shaped the modern world. This theme appears in courses in history, as well as in other social studies courses for which knowledge of the past is important.