STARTER: Recap of previous learning

Who was responsible for the Depression in 1929?

EXTENSION:1. Consider your list and rank your points in order of importance 2. Identify links between causes.

Learning Outcomes: R A G

•You will have picked out arguments for and against each group.

•You will have organised your ideas within a PEA structure

•You will reach a judgment assessing the level of blame for each group - using the scales graphic

EXTENSION: Events will be organised in order of importance and links between causes may be identified.

Next Lesson and homework: You will write an essay in answer to the question ‘Who was responsible for the Depression?” hitting your grade target,

using the appropriate writing frame.

Learning Objectives:

To identify and assess the culpability of individual groups for the global depression 1929 – 1933.Through the completion of a carousel activity.

EXTENSION :Rank each of your groups in order of importance

You will start to identify links between causes

Next Lesson and homework:

To understand the differences between an E-D grade, D-C grade, B-A grade essay response.

Carousel Activity:

To identify and assess the culpability

(blame) of individual groups

There are 5 groups that we will investigate today:

Businessmen President Hoover

Workers

European Economy Unions

EXTENSION:Capitalists

Carousel Activity: To identify and assess the culpability

(blame) of individual groups • 1. Read through each of the source sheets for the below groups:

• Businessmen President Hoover/Republicans

• Capitalists Workers

• European Economy Unions

• 2. Identify how much each group can be blamed for causing the depression. Record your argument in the table, within a ‘point / evidence / analysis’ structure. Try to provide a balanced argument where possible.

• 3. Assess the extent to which each group is to blame and show your judgement visually, through the completion of the scales weight.

EXTENSION - Having ranked the groups from the most significant to the least significant cause, identify links between them.

EG: Businessmen FOR AGAINST

POINT: The American public blamed the "Three B's:

"Bankers, Brokers & Businessmen

Evidence: Historicans: Friedman and Schwartz:

RURAL ECONOMY: Farmers blamed the banks:“With low crop prices and high debt the “banks raised interest rates… loans skyrocketed …… [leading to farmers] .. defaulting on their loan repayments”

URBAN ECONOMY: Structually weak and made risky investment Choices:“….failing to maintain adequate reserves …investing heavily in the stock market or making risky loans. (Eg. Germany & Latin America).”

Analysis: the banking system was not well

Prepared to absorb the shock of a major recession.

POINT: Communists argue that the Capitalist

system is to blame for the Depression.

Evidence: ”it is a reflection of the

boom/bust cycle inherent in a system of private ownership and profit … bosses will always seek to take more from workers and that this leads eventually to a reduction in the level of profit”

Analysis:the capitalist system is to blame

because it dictates the actions of individuals within this system.

ALSO: FARMERS ARE TO BLAME:

The Farmers can also be blamed for over borrowing to buy land/stock and defaulting on their loan repayments. “Small banks, tied to the agricultural economy, were in constant crisis in the 1920s with their customers defaulting on loans”

CAROUSEL ACTIVITY

YOU HAVE 25 MINUTES

AFTER 10 MINUTES .. Reflecting on progress so far …

Learning Outcomes: R A G

•You will have picked out arguments for and against each group.

•You will have organised your ideas within a PEA structure

•You will reach a judgment assessing the level of blame for each group - using the scales graphic

EXTENSION You will rank each of your groups in order of importance

You will start to identify links between causes

President Hoover/Republicans FOR AGAINST

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

ALSO:

Workers FOR AGAINST

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

ALSO:

European Economy FOR AGAINST

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

ALSO:

Unions FOR AGAINST

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

ALSO:

Capitalists FOR AGAINST

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:

POINT:

Evidence:

Analysis:ALSO:

Plenary: Quantifying the culpability of each group?

• Complete the summative table on your worksheet:

• Rank the groups in order of importance explaining the reasons for your choice:

EXTESNION: Identify links

between causes

Ranking in order

Explanation of order

EXTENSIONLinks

Businessmen to capitalist system

Capitalism

Unions

Workers

President Hoover

European Economy

Reflecting on progress at the end of the lesson …

Learning Outcomes: R A G

•You will have picked out arguments for and against each group.

•You will have organised your ideas within a PEA structure

•You will reach a judgment assessing the level of blame for each group - using the scales graphic

EXTENSION You will rank each of your groups in order of importance

You will start to identify links between causes

Final Thought: How does today’s learning link to our next lesson and the A

Level Exam?

Level Mark Scheme Assessment Target

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Who was responsible for the Depression?

Assessing the skill of HISTORICAL CAUSATION