Blog # 4- Alphabet Soup

TASK:  You are to investigate the programs that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)implemented in the 1930s to help lift the United States out of the Great Depression by viewing the provided web sites which deal with the topic.

Note: It is important to remember the following: FDR’s administration created so many programs (i.e. the AAA, WPA, TVA, CCC…) that people referred to programs by their initials.  Hence the term, “Alphabet Soup” programs. 

FDR's programs can be broken into 3 categories - relief, recovery, reform (The 3 R's)

• Relief - provided instant relief for those who needed (short term). Think of it like “putting out a fire.”
• Recovery - put the United States' on sound economic footing, and strong again (like it was in the 1920’s).  (Recovery means that it gets back to a previous state.)  Think of it like healing a sick person and making him healthy again.
• Reform -fix the economy and prevent future failures in the economic system (i.e. banking)

 ***Some of the 'Alphabet Soup' programs spanned one or more of the 3 R's***

YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

Look up the purpose of each New Deal “Alphabet Soup” programs. Use your textbook or the following links:

1) New Deal Programs - 'Alphabet Soup" 

2) Alphabet Soup Programs 

Print out the New Deal chart:  New Deal Chart

Fill it out the New Deal Chart by using your textbook and the above links (make sure you include dates, and attempt to determine which of the 3 r's each program would fit - remember that there might be more than one!)

What did the letters in all those Alphabet Agencies stand for?  Bare bones -- provides the meaning of the acronym and the date.

Analyze the impact of the New Deal programs on the Great Depression.  Did the particular program accomplish Relief, Recovery, or Reform?  Did the New Deal end the depression?  (i.e. Did it help farmers?  Did it help workers?)  Was it a failure?  What impacts last today (hint: think about Reforms like ‘FDIC’)?  Be sure to use the helpful outside “resource” web links at the bottom of our blog page, as well as your textbook and class notes to help you draw your conclusions.  And, as always, appropriately cite your work!

You will hand in your completed New Deal Chart, in class, next Thursday, April 21^st.

GRADING:  How will you be graded??  Use the following chart to help guide you!

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Historical Accuracy (worth 3 x's more)	A series of random thoughts with no string tying it together.	Historical information is present, but either are not accurate or go contrary to the justification.	History is accurate, but don't always help the justification.	Careful attention is paid to the historical accuracy and the history strongly supports the justification.
Sound Justification (worth 2 x's more)	Answer is not justified.	Justification is present, but needs some work.	Justification is present and is thoughtful and insightful, backed w/ sound historical information, but could dig deeper.	Justification is sound and covers all bases.
Writing Skills	Handwritten, sloppy, and full of errors.	Handwritten or typed, but should have been proof-read more carefully.	Typed and organized writing with a few errors which do not inhibit the reader.	Typed and organized with virtually no errors.
Originality	Work is not original to the student.	Some of the work is original, but a little too much copying and pasting.	Work is mostly original to the student.	Completely original thoughts. Student has done a nice job of conveying their own analysis of FDR's New Deal.
Requirements	None of the requirements were met.	Some of the requirements were met.	Most of the requirements were met.	All of the requirements were met.

*Grading rubric taken from Engellclasses.net