Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.8a
The Standard
- SS24.5.8
- Analyze how the government-funded New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt impacted American society.
Identify the contributions of reformers during the New Deal, including Alabama political and civic leaders.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify New Deal reformers, including leaders from Alabama. They explain what each person did and who benefited.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that Governor Bibb Graves used federal aid for Alabama roads and schools. They can also explain that Alabama-born Aubrey Williams led a program that provided jobs and training for young people.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a New Deal program without naming the person who helped carry it out. They may also think every program served everyone equally, overlooking barriers faced by Black Americans.
How to Assess It
- Give students two names, Bibb Graves and Aubrey Williams. Ask them to write one New Deal action each took and one group it helped.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs short biography cards and impact cards; have them match Graves, Williams, and Mary McLeod Bethune to their work.
Ask students to write: Which helped families more, roads and schools or youth jobs? Use one fact about a named leader.
Play a matching game with leader and action cards; students must explain each match before keeping the pair.
Show a photo of a local road and ask how a road project supported by Graves could change a family's daily travel.
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Related Standards
- SS24.AS.16c
Identify civil rights leaders and foot soldiers in Alabama, and explain their contributions to fostering change in the state.
- SS24.5.12e
Identify Alabamians who contributed to concurrent civil rights movements in the United States during the decades following World War II.
- SS24.5.8b
Identify and describe New Deal projects that helped bring relief to Alabama.
- SS24.4.15d
Recount the contributions of Alabamians who helped shape their state during Reconstruction.
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