Dead End In Norvelt

Dead End In NorveltKatie Smith and Mike Peterson

Before reading Dead End In Norvelt

A place where

everything is

dead…

but

…the deaths bring

it to life.

Jack Gantos

• Grew up in Norvelt

• Slow Reader

• Sister’s Diary

• “Cradle to Grave”

The Great Depression

Stock Market Crash

Economic Slump Unemployment

President

Roosevelt

New Deal

-1933: President

Roosevelt

-Optimism

-Social and

Economic

Reform

Eleanor Roosevelt

-Planned Communities

-New Deal meant a new

chance

-Pride and Hope

Norvelt

-Westmoreland

Homesteads

-Housing, work,

and community

-Renamed to

Norvelt

WWII1939-1945

J-3

Planes

Bloody NoseHemochromatosis

Cauterization

Arthritis-Joint pain and stiffness -Limits motion

Obituaries

-Notice of

Death

-Information

about

deceased

person

-Newspapers

Typewriter-1808: First typewriter

-Ink stamps on a paper

-Alternative to hand writing

things

1080 Poison

-Used to kill bugs on plants

-Sometimes in solution form

-Potentially lethal

Hells Angels Motorcycle Club

-California

1948

-Violence and

Extortion

Enjoy Dead End in Norvelt!

Additional Sites

Author Webpage

http://www.jackgantos.com

Historical Information

www.history.com