The Great Depression was a time of heart ache for all. We choose this topic because it was an interesting topic that we wanted to know more about. The way we went about researching this topic was that each person got at least 20 sources. Coming together was hard but it was exciting to work together again and talk about this topic and research it.
First we just went on our own with the research at first and we each had about 15-25 sources each. We then had a group meeting were twice a week at lunch to talk about the project. We had to bring all of our research together and all together we have 50- 80 resources. Later in our process our teacher told us that are group was too large so at our group meeting we choose to separate into two groups of three.
After we did that we also decided that if we are in two groups that one us can do conflict and the other group can do compromise. We informed our teacher about our idea and he said yes if we can make it work then it would be an good idea. After that we had another meeting and split the people up and got all of our information together but put it in two different plies one conflict and compromise. Then we split the work up and took what each paper said and incorporated into our work.
Lastly we got pictures of what the Great Depression did and how it effected the poor people and their families. We made captions for the pictures. Then some of us started to put together all the information while the rest of us started to decorate the board. In the last week of NHD we got together, we all worked as one group to finish the boards. We put the paper out on the boards and then pasted it down. We ran around typing and getting all of the information for the boards. We had some difficulties with the finding some pictures on the compromise because there were so little things that expressed what we wanted to talk about during that time period. On the great depression more problems we ran into was with so many people how to take all of our ideas and combine them into a project that we can all work on together.
In conclusion we choose The Great Depression not only to learn more about the topic but to look into the eyes of people who were there and to see what it was like, how they lived in these dark times. We all incorporated some of our ideas and we found a way to use them but not messing up anyone else's idea that they came up with. Yes we had some problems but in the end we came over them together as one group. We worked in two groups and on two boards but we all helped each other as one group.
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