Yesterday the class finished watched the Charlie Chaplin film, "Modern Times". The movie looked at life in the 20s and 30s as well as the effect of industrialization on society.
Today, students completed an assignment on the film. We discussed the definitions of assembly line, "Little Tramp", unions, communist, and Gamin. Students then completed the rest of the work on Modern Times.
We started to look at life in the 1930s and the effects of the depression on family life. Students were given a handout showing the breakdown of a family's salary and subsequent costs in today's money value. They then were given the scenario of losing at least 40% of their wage to the Depression, and then having no income. The assignment had the students focusing on what they would have to cut out of their lives and give up or sell to survive the Depression. A "survival plan" was created. The goal was to have you connect and understand the extreme hardships that were being felt by the people in the 1930s.
More on that tomorrow!
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