poverty and abundance

Poverty and Abundance

Lesson 2

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,

it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of

foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the

epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it

was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of

hope, it was the winter of despair, we had

everything before us, we had nothing before us,

we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all

going direct the other way--in short, the period was

so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest

authorities insisted on its being received, for good or

for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison

only."

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities,

Book 1, Chapter 1

Based on your observations, what are some examples of

poverty and abundance in our world?Whole Group/Teacher Guided (grades 1 & 2)

Individually or Small Groups (grades 3-5)

Poverty Abundance Poverty

fluency

Use your ideas from:

Bring Ideas together.

Classify/Sort by Categories (all)

Discussion • Look at the abundance categories. Of these,

which one is most important to you? Why?

• Look at the poverty categories. Which is most prevalent (widespread or seen often) in our community? Which is the easiest to remedy (fix)? How would you do it? Which has the greatest impact on the community? How (evidence)?

Thomas Hart Benton,

"Kansas City," from Politics, Farming, and

the Law, Missouri State

Museum (1936)

Originality

Elaboration

Storytelling

articulateness

It’s your turn.

Poverty and Abundance in My World

ElaborationOriginality

Storytelling

articulateness

Great Depression1929-1940

Recessions

Year Unemployment Rate

1982 9.71983 9.61984 7.51985 7.21986 7.0

Year Unemployment Rate

2006 4.62007 4.62008 5.82009 9.32010 9.6

Create a bar graph using the data from 2006-2010.

Depression

• A severe and prolonged recession characterized by inefficient economic productivity, high unemployment and falling

price levels.

Recession

• A significant decline in economic activity, lasting longer than a few months. It is visible in industrial production, employment, real income and wholesale-retail trade.

• The technical indicator of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP-monetary value of a goods & services produced in a country for a given year).

Iconic symbol

Created in 1928 by Walt Disney

Iconic: a person or thing regarded as a symbol of something.

Mickey Mouse

=

Disney

Iconic Symbols

Advertising

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How Media Targets Kids http://nutritionandmedia.org/page15/page2/page2.html

James N. Rosenberg, Oct

29 Dies Irae ("Days of

Wrath"), 1929

PHOTO ANALYSIS

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subscribers.

Bread line, or bank-run?January 1931, Chester Garde

Broke but hoping.

January 1931, by Ed

Graham

PHOTO ANALYSIS

Jobless Recovery circa 1931. Caption is kind of fuzzy. It says, “I see by the papers that everything is all right”.

January 1930, by Robert Brown

Palm Beach, 1931

JFK

Mixed signals.

October 1931, John Cassel

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief roles in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. "We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody." Children of migrant workers typically had no way to attend school. By the end of 1930 some 3 million children had abandoned school. Thousands of schools had closed or were operating on reduced hours. At least 200,000 children took to the roads on their own.  Summer 1936. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Hugo Gellert, Primary

Accumlation 19 (1933)

A Brief History of Unions

Jacob Burck, The Lord Provides (1934)

Conrad A.

Albrizio, The

New Deal (1934)

Affresco by

Conrad A.

Albrizio,

dedicated to

President

Roosevelt,

placed in the

auditorium

of the Leonardo

Da Vinci Art

School

(149 East 34th

Street, NYC) PHOTO ANALYSIS

Blanche Mary Grambs, No Work (1935)

Porch of a sharecropper's cabin, Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936. Photographer: Walker Evans.

The marginal and oppressive economy of sharecropping largely collapsed during the great Depression.

Kitchen in house of Floyd Burroughs, sharecropper, near Moundville, Hale County, Alabama. Summer 1936. Photographer: Walker Evans.

Toward Los Angeles, California. 1937. Photographer: Dorothea Lange. Perhaps 2.5 million people abandoned their homes in the South and the Great Plains during the Great Depression and went on the road.

Juxtaposition: an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Juxtaposition

Drawing from examples in our modern

world, use the juxtaposition technique to

create an image that shows

poverty and abundance.

Materials: newspapers, magazines, pictures, etc.

Originality

Joe Jones, Wasteland (1937)

Eli Jacobi, Bar and Grill (n.d.)

Sources

• http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm Depression Art Gallery

• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/newyorker/class.html Relations of Class in the Great Depression

• http://www.filmsite.org/wiza.html Wizard• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/print/com

ic/cartoon.html Comic Strip