The New Deal: North Carolina's Reconstruction?
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This lesson plan is a guide for teachers that will result in imaginary WPA interviews similar to those found in the American Life Histories, 1936-1940 of the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress website that demonstrate students’ interpretation of the question Was the New Deal North Carolina’s Reconstruction?The student project will demonstrate mastery of a variety of objectives that include creative writing, historical appreciation and criticism, recognition of bias, and incorporation of text and illustration reflecting primary source research. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the degree to which the Depression/New Deal amended the economic destruction of the Civil War, utilize the American Life Histories, 1936-1940 as both a primary resource as well as a model for student-written interview documents, identify point of view/bias in historical documents, both text and pictorial, and provide historical support for a thesis through the use of creative writing.
