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Description
OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will examine excerpts from an interview with a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps to determine how his time in the CCC affected him, his family, and Texas during the Great Depression.
LESSON TIME
This lesson will take approximately 45 – 60 minutes.
Exact times may vary based on the specific needs of individual classes.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What was the Civilian Conservation Corps and what role did it play in providing relief for Texans during the Great Depression?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Sources
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
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This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question for the lesson.
It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
Student Activities
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Warm-up & Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students will use a brief excerpt from the lesson’s primary source material to draw conclusions about daily life in Texas during the Great Depression.
In this exit ticket, students will observe a map of state parks built by the Civilian Conservation Corps to identify which two Texas regions contained the greatest number of parks and provide an explanation for why these regions held more parks based on prior knowledge about the geography, landscape, and resources of the regions.
The Warm-up and Exit Ticket document includes two warm-ups on the front of the page and two exit tickets on the back of the page. This formatting reduces the number of copies needed, as teachers will cut each printed page in half. Each student will receive a half-page with the warm-up on the front and the exit on the back.
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Primary Source Interview
This printable material provides a set of six, one-page excerpts from an interview with a man who served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s. Students will use these interview excerpts to examine and analyze the role of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the daily lives of Texans during the Great Depression.
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Grade Level Work
In this printable assignment, students will respond to multiple-choice, multi-select, and short constructed response questions with sentence stems provided to guide student responses.
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In this printable assignment, students will respond to multiple-choice and multi-select questions with one answer option eliminated. They also respond to short constructed response questions with sentence stems and response options provided.
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In this printable assignment, students will respond to short, constructed response questions about the interviewees experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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Oral interview with Claude L. Hendon
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Parks and Wildlife Department. [Trading Card: Civilian Conservation Corps]
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Texas Almanac, 2008 - 2009
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas State Parks, book, 2010
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