Breaking the Banks!!!

1. Students will read/listen to(what kind of materials??) in order to___________________________________ (learn about financial crises)

 2. Students will show their learning by (end product/Project) _____________________________________ (essay/tri-fold)

 3. Students/The Teacher will evaluate the learning by (using a rubric, checklist, etc.)


 Purpose: To learn the causes of financial crises, how they impact citizens, and how we might avoid crises in the future.

 Comparing and Contrasting the financial crises of the 1920-30s, with the crisis in 2008. 

History/Reading/Writing/Mathematics

History--Survey the history of the 1920-30s/Survey History 2000-2016
Reading--Close reading of various texts/essays--vocabulary/critical reading/evaluate-extend meaning.
Writing--English Writing conventions--sentence/paragraph/essay structure. Create advertising copy.
Math-Cost analysis then and now/Analyzing Charts and Graphs/Creating Charts and Graphs.

 What are the similarities between the two financial crises?? Differences?

 Have different student pairs/groups bring information/insight to the large group. (Using the blog comment feature)

 1. Causes of the Great Depression
 2. Causes of the Great Recession
 3. Impact on People

 Culminating Project: Comparison/Contrast Essay on similarities/differences--to be displayed on tri-fold with other info of the two time periods. Possibly--Create brochures on financial literacy/Create Blog or Newsletter.

 Introduction: Watch Movie: "Too Big to Fail" Resources:

http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/videos/1929-stock-market-crash?cmpid=mrss_int_taboola_video_his

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1569.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/crash/

https://www.nps.gov/museum/tmc/PRWI/GreatDepressionMath.pdf https://www.stlouisfed.org/the-great-depression https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/12/black-scholes-equation-credit-crunch https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2013/201351/201351pap.pdf

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/06/24/poor_math_skills_may_have_fueled_mortgage_crisis_106571.html

https://web.stanford.edu/group/recessiontrends/cgi-bin/web/sites/all/themes/barron/pdf/IncomeWealthDebt_fact_sheet.pdf

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/10/understanding-the-great-global-contagion-and-recession

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/modern-us/us-after-2000/a/the-great-recession

http://www.decodedscience.org/are-we-in-the-middle-of-another-great-depression/18141

http://www.city-journal.org/html/scary-pension-math-14159.html

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-worst-quarter-for-dividends-since.html#.V2v1T_kwiSs

http://www.thesavvystreet.com/one-percent-sanders-do-the-math/

https://www.uvu.edu/woodbury/docs/summaryoftheprimarycauseofthehousingbubble.pdf

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/current-economics/credit-crisis/v/the-housing-price-conundrum

http://www.datapointed.net/2010/12/housing-bubble-financial-crisis-video/

http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/issues/housing-market-crash.htm

https://mises.org/library/ben-bernanke-was-incredibly-uncannily-wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erPV5n1gjOc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzc8ZO5XYyo