Josh and Jesse

Hitler was a big concern in the 1930s. He tried to take over Europe. He was affecting the whole world with his Nazi Party. The collapse of the Wall St. stock exchange in 1929 led to a worldwide recession which hit Germany especially hard. When World War 1 ended Europe was left in runes and was in major dept. So when that happened the country was in need of money. So Europe turned to the United States of America. Which is one reason why the U.S. was effected in the great depression.

movies of the 1930's

Emily Mills Chi-Ann Guillermo Jehan Abdelhamid Movies of the 1930’s! Movies in the 1930’s were different compared to what they are now, many full-length films were produced in this decade. The top ten most popular movies in the 1930’s were: The Wizard Of Oz- Victor Fleming , Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs- Walt Disney, Gone With The Wind- Victor Fleming, M- Fritz Lang, City Lights- Charles Chaplin, The Bride Of Frankenstein- James Whale, The Thin Man- W.S. Van Dyke, It Happened One Night- Frank Capra, Grand Illusion- Jean Renoir, The Lady Vanishes- Alfred Hitchcock. Clark Gable was one of the most successful actors in the 1930’s. He appeared in the movies “Gone With The Wind “(1939) and “It Happened One Night” (1934). Myrna Loy is another successful actress, she appeared in the movie “The Thin Man” (1934). Boris Karloff appeared in “The Bride Of Frankenstein” (1935). The following movies above were also voted in the top ten most popular films. Most of the movies in the 1930’s were in black and white. The first well known movie in the 1930’s was “The Wizard OZ” because it was one of the first movies made in color, it then became very popular. Work citation “ the bottom line.” Reviews From Epinions. Web .28.20110.

Elijah and Crystal

Education in the 1930’s
Back in the 1930’s there was the Great Depression and families suffered property taxes and schools. In schools they had one classroom, one teacher, and all grades in the class. Many teenagers left school to either work on the family farm or they left home to find other jobs. Some of the teachers weren’t older than their students.
One of the goals of the schools was to teach students literature or to read and write. Many children learned to read from the Dick and James books. Outstanding fiction and poetry was produced by American writers like Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, Raymond Chandler, John Dos Passos, Carl Sandburg, Ogden Nash and Wallace Stevens. People read the mysteries of Agatha Christie and detective stories by Dashiell Hammett. African-American writer Richard Wright described the racial prejudice in his native South. Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature. John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl epic The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939. The novel had a Nebraska connection when Hollywood made it into a movie staring Nebraska native Henry Fonda in 1941. (Ganzel, 2003)
Usually one room schoolhouses was heated in the winter time by coal and wood stove.
Works Cited
Ganzel, C. R. (2003). Going to school. Retrieved March 28, 2011, from livinghistroyfarm: http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_21.html

graves/williams

Brandon Graves
Justin Williams
Plymouth entered the market with a car that can best be described as "confusing.” It was almost totally new, yet it was looked like the same car sold in years past. Plymouth made many cars. While other company tried to make cars but Walter Chrysler was putting $2.5 million dollars in cars. The 30U was a car back then. The hood louvers were now stamped into a flat side panel rather than in a raised panel. Early 30U engines were still cooled by thermo-syphon cooling while fuel was supplied by a vacuum tank, but by July 1930s the engines had been fitted with fuel.
Chrysler was trying to chance the body of the original body to a steel body. Ford and Dodge had steel body cars before Chrysler and it changed the whole industry. All the change in all the bodies in the car were welded together as a single huge panel for more support. The front and rear bumpers were twin bar variety. Walter Chrysler's strategy helped the new Plymouth in the market, and also helped keep some of his other dealers alive, by giving them a low priced car to offer but good car that got people from point A to point B.
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Drew Miller and Ruben Calvo 1930's Hoover

Herbert hover was the 31st president of the United States. Hoover had a landslide victory over democrat Al Smith. When the Wall Street crashed in 1929 Hoover took office. Hoover was defeated in the 1932 election. He was a republican nomination to run for office in 1929. Hoover is ranked poorly among the former presidents. Hoover was born in 1874. He died in 1964. The economy was just as bad as it was today. He took over as president during the great depression. He had no previous office attempts at presidents for the republicans. Hoover was a trained engineer. His vice president during his run was Charles Curtis. He was preceded by Calvin Coolidge. He was succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt. He died at the age of 90 years old. He had 2 children. He was a republican. His religion was a Quaker. He went to the College of Stanford University. He was also part of the civil rights movement. He was the president during most of the Great Depression. He had a big problem not caring. He had a dinner with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. He talked about civil rights with Booker T. Washington. He was a horrible president.

Kody

Scout FINCH LIVES with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy Alabama town of Macomb. is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer, and the trio acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the Radley Place. The house is owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother, Arthur (nicknamed Boo), has lived there for years without venturing outside.

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Mr. Wartman- TKAM/1930's Research Project

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel deeply tied to the period of the 1930’s. Because we are so removed from that time period, before reading, we are going to conduct some research. Working in partners, you are to research an aspect of life in America during the 1930’s. I have given you a sheet of possible topics, but if you would like to do something different, that would be great; just ask me to approve your topic before you begin researching it. Once you have researched your topic, you are to write a couple of paragraphs (at least 200 words) describing your topic. Cite your sources in your paragraphs. Also include the necessary works cited list at the end of your paragraphs. Don’t create a separate works cited page (like we did on our how to papers); just put the citations at the end of your write up. Do all of this using Microsoft Word. Once you have completed your research and paragraphs, you need to post your paragraphs on the class blog. Copy and paste the word document into the blog editor. The title needs to be your name and the topic of the post, so it should be something like “Mr. Wartman- TKAM/1930’s Research Project.” After you and your partner have posted your paragraphs, the two of you need to read your classmates’ posts and write a comment on your favorite post explaining why it was your favorite blog entry. You will be required to use this blog again as we continue reading To Kill A Mockingbird; it is imperative that you fully understand how to read an entry, post an entry, and comment on an entry by the end of this activity because you will have to do this without my assistance.