Students address these questions through activities using oral history methods and investigating life in the 1930s. They compare the immigration/migration experiences of their families to those of people living through the Great Depression using interviews with parents, and photographs, films, and documents from the Library of Congress and other sources.

Concepts

culture, immigration, migration

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Additional Tags

oral histories, great depression, library of congress, understanding history, voluntary/involuntary migration

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)