Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.8
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Analyze how the government-funded New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt impacted American society. 8a Identify the contributions of reformers during the New Deal, including Alabama political and civic leaders. 8b Identify and describe New Deal projects that helped bring relief to Alabama.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
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What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how New Deal programs changed work and daily life during the Depression. They identify Alabama leaders and describe how projects such as Wheeler Dam brought jobs and electricity.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that Hugo Black backed federal wage and hour rules and Aubrey Williams led a youth jobs program. They can describe how Wheeler Dam created construction jobs and later supplied electricity.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every family got a government job. They may also assume wage rules covered farm and domestic workers, or that the dam's construction jobs lasted as long as its electricity supply.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: How did Hugo Black's work and Wheeler Dam each help people in Alabama? Name one group that federal wage rules left out.
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Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an Alabama map and cards for Wheeler Dam, a WPA school, and a CCC park; have them place and label each project.
Ask students to write: How could wage rules help a factory worker but leave a farmworker out?
Play a card match with Hugo Black, Aubrey Williams, Wheeler Dam, and their effects on workers, young people, and homes.
Use a TVA service map and a sample electricity bill to trace how power from Wheeler Dam could reach a home.
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