1. The Great Designers’ Storyboard
The Great Depression
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2. General Information
Title of Book Music & Entertainment During The Great Depression
Content Area Social Studies
Genre Non-Fiction
Grade Level 9-12
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3. Coach Ideas
I like the hat! sg

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Just an idea for a coach..SG ----- I like this graphic. If we use I the others
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I used Gimp to cut around it. SG

5. Overview
Americans during the 1930s were facing many hardships during the Great Depression. They became
poor due to the banking crisis and the shortage of jobs. Many families were left homeless. Children
were starving and malnourished. Countless Americans thought that their lives were ruined forever.
The music and entertainment during this time were among the few outlets that gave people hope of
a better future.

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Text for Coach 1 Why were Americans depressed during the Great Depression?
Text for Coach 2 Did you know (trivia here) In 1933, 100,000 Americans applied for visas to emigrate
to the Soviet Union in search of better work opportunities.
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7. Low Cost Entertainment
Even though times were hard and money was scarce, families found time to have fun
with each other, friends and neighbors. Board games such as "Monopoly" and
"Scrabble" were first sold during the 1930s. Neighbors also got together to play card
games such as Whist, Pinochle, Canasta and Bridge.
Playing cards, horseshoes, dominos, or putting together a complex puzzle with
hundreds of pieces helped families pass the time.

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9. Music
The Great Depression marked a change in popular musical styles. Songwriters wrote music that
identified with the mood of the times or sought to keep people's minds off their hardships. The song,
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" is considered the anthem of the Great Depression because of its
honest portrayal of the difficulties faced by the average American.
Listen or read more about the song in this NPR story: A Depression-Era Anthem for Our Times
"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/specialmusic/2009/10/20091022_specialmusic_brother.mp3"
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
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Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries

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Audio or Video Songs: Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime, Life is Like a Bowl of
Cherries; NPR Story
Text for Coach 1 What did the lyrics of the 1930's music reveal about life during this time?
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Text for Coach 3 According to the NPR story, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" still
resonates with people. Why do you think this song is still seen as
relevant in today's world?
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11. Music: Blues and Jazz
Somber blues and confessional ballads became very
popular during the 1930s lamenting the tough times,
but musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fletcher
Henderson, and Count Basie were still very influential
during the Great Depression with their complex and
exhilarated forms of jazz. Chasing the Depression
blues away with music was far more common than
celebrating its woes.
Click on the picture for a link to music...

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Text for Coach 3 The self evaluation could be based on the student's impressions after
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13. Woody Guthrie -
Influential Depression Era Musician
Woody Guthrie was born in 1912 in Okamah, Oklahoma. In 1935 he experienced
Black Sunday, the worst dust storm of the decade resulting in a "Dust Bowl" that
killed crops and devastated farms in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The Dust Bowl
greatly worsened life for people who were already suffering from the Great
Depression. Like so many others in the Dust Bowl, Guthrie was unable to make a
living. He left his wife, three children and his first band to look for work in
California. While hitchhiking he wrote folk songs about the dust bowl, migrant
workers, corrupt politicians and union organizing. His song Talking Dust Bowl
Blues (lyrics) provides a glimpse into farm life before and after the Dust Bowl.
"This Land is Your Land" is probably the best-known song written by Woody Guthrie.
"A folk song is what’s wrong and how to fix it or it could be who’s hungry and where
their mouth is or who’s out of work and where the job is or who’s broke and where
the money is or who’s carrying a gun and where the peace is."
Woody Guthrie http://www.woodyguthrie.org/

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Text for Coach 3 Students could compare these songs to a contemporary song. OR they could
'update' the lyrics to one stanza in their own words (to the same tune) OR they could
perform the song as a 'rap' OR they could write their own folk song verse based on
the quote from WG OR they could find a contemporary song that fits WG's definition
of a folk song
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15. Dance
● Dance
● Dance Marathons, an American phenomenon of the 1920s and 1930s, were human endurance
contests in which couples danced almost non-stop for hundreds of hours (as long as a month or
two), competing for prize money. They continued into the 1930s. They were said to mirror the
marathon of desperation Americans underwent during the Great Depression. They were also an
escape of the harsh realities of daily life.
"You can't be sad and dance at the same time."

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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) This movie reveals some of the desperate
acts people during the Great Depression endured (marathon dances) in order obtain
money.
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19. Popular Movie Stars of the 1930’s
Movies provided an escape from the daily hardships Potential self- evaluation
of the Great Depression. They allowed a peek into
the lives of high society. Who would you consider to be the
most popular movie stars today?
Not only were people fascinated by the movies
Are they comedians? Singers?
themselves, they wanted to know all about the
glamorous lives of the actors who starred in them. Dancers?
People particularly loved movies starring the In respect to movie roles and
handsome Clark Gable, mysterious Bette Davis, public persona, identify a few of
sexy Greta Garbo, swashbuckling Errol Flynn, today's stars and described their
dangerous Humphrey Bogart, and precocious similarities and differences to those
Shirley Temple. listed from the 1930's.
Musicals starring the elegant dance team of Fred
Internet sites and entertainment
Astaire and Ginger Rogers were also favorites.
journalists provide an
W.C. Fields, Bob Hope and the Marx Brothers unprecedented amount of
made comedic films which made people laugh information about the private life of
and forget their difficulties. movie stars.
In 1937, Walt Disney released "Snow White"
which was the first full-length animated movie.

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21. Horror Movies of the 1930's
"...of all of the types of films, horror films are the greatest reflection of modern culture. The hopes and
fears of society are displayed in full motion in the horror films of the day." L. Vincent Poupard
During the Great Depression many immigrants that came to America
worried that perhaps they had made a mistake.
On the other hand, many citizens of the United States believed that
some of the problems the country was facing were directly caused
by the large number of people from "The Old Country" immigrating
into the US.
Universal Studios produced numerous horror films during the
1930's, believing that watching them would provide the masses a
way to release their inner fears.
Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), The
Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Dracula's Daughter (1936), Son of
Frankenstein (1939), and The Wolf Man (1941) all had common
themes.
Providing more than a simple distraction from the horrors of life
during the Depression era, these movies reflect the hopes, dreams,
and fears of Americans during this most difficult time.
The monster that reinforced the fears of a generation.
Credit: Universal Studios Good
Copyright: Public Stuff!

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23. if more of this text is used, must be paraphrased and condensed.
Perhaps a trailer of a horror film (or 2)can be embedded? -BS
All of the creatures from these horror movies have links to, "The Old Country." For those people that argued that the
perils of the day came from the immigrants, they had an argument that was displayed in front of them on the screen. The
creatures that these films portrayed reinforced the fears that these Americans had.
Dracula immigrated to America from Western Europe. The Wolf Man had a curse that was believed to be common in
Western Europe. The Mummy was a curse that was born in Northern Africa. Frankenstein was a monster that was created
from a madness that was in central Europe.
The immigrants who had come to this country were able to relate to these horror movies since they were based on old
beliefs and superstitions that they had grown up with. These films gave them a reminder of where it was that they had
come from, and where many of them longed to return. ------Not sure I agree with the content that follows.... thoughts? ---
Maybe the last paragraph
For some, this reminder of the fears and superstitions that had been left behind made them realize that it was good that they had
come to America. These horror films made them understand why they had left Europe in the first place, and come to a land that
was more realistic and reasonable.
For some people in the United States, these horror films brought another message. Many people fear that one day they will come to
the realization that their parents were right about something. Finding out that the old superstitions that were held by their parents
could be a major wakeup call for many people. These horror movies reinforced this fear.
When Universal Studios first created these movies, they had no idea how many levels of messages were encased in these movies.
They wanted to make horror films that were a distraction for people from the real life horrors of the day. They never realized that
they were sending different messages to different people.
That, though, is what many horror movies do. They speak to what is going on in the world at the time. By relating to what people
fear, horror films also relate to their dreams and hopes. These relations are what can tell us a lot about the people that are
watching these horror films at the time. These relations explain history in a completely different capacity then we are used to.

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25. Comedies / Romantic Comedies of
the 1930's
Charlie Chaplain
It Happened One Night, 5 x Oscar winner -
verbal sparring between Clark Gable and ?

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27. Musicals of the 1930's
Depression era musicals often included themes of the unemployed or
"down and out " making it big. The video clip above is from "Gold
Diggers of 1933". Listen to the lyrics of "We're in the Money."

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29. The Dependence on Radio
Radio was the nation's first mass medium.
It linked the country and ended the isolation of rural residents.
Radio was so important that the 1930 Census asked if the
household had a radio.
Radio provided free entertainment and connected country
people to world events.
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During the Great Depression, the significance of the
radio for rural families grew despite the lean
conditions. Families struck with poverty would
rather choose to give up an icebox or a bed before
they would part with their radios. The radios
symbolized lifelines to the outside world.

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Text for Coach 2 Did you know...By the end of 1932, 30-45 million people listened to Father Charles
Coughlin's radio program every week
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31. Popular Radio Broadcasts During the Depression
Families laughed at comedians Jack Benny, Fred Allen, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Amos and Andy, and Fibber McGee and
Molly.
Radio featured daytime soap operas.
In the evening, people listened to the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, The Shadow, and Jack Armstrong.
Singers Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers, as well as Guy Lombardo's orchestra and the Grand Ole Opry were popular.
Families listened to baseball, cheering for stars like Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio.
Nearly 40 million people listened to the horserace between Seabiscuit and War Admiral in Maryland.
In news coverage, the German airship Hindenburg caught fire in 1937 as it landed in New Jersey. Thousands of people across
the country heard Herb Morrison describe the terrifying scene on live radio, saying "Oh the humanity!"
Orson Welles broadcasted "War of the Worlds," a radio play about Martians landing on Earth. Millions of people didn't
understand that the story was fiction. They panicked and tried to leave town.
Is this
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Radio broadcasts helped Americans cope with the tough times allowing them to laugh at continue
comedians such as Jack Benny, Fred Allen, George Burns and Gracie Allen. The radio also gave rewriting
them a way to escape their reality by living the lives of soap opera characters and brave men such
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as the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet.
Nothing beats the blues like music. The radio provided this for many Americans. They listened to
Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers as well as Guy Lombardo's orchestra and the Grand Ole Opry.
Families that could not afford the costs of attending baseball games could now listen live to

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33. Comics

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35. Will need to review Mary's content to add specifics
to these.
Books/Novels - Grapes of Wrath,
Popular games (horseshoes, Board Games, dominos, Baseball, etc.? )
Magazines -
While the 1930s were difficult for many businesses, magazine publishing flourished! From the 'movie star rags' to the more
respectable editorial magazines, the wide range of content appealed to Americans who wanted to read about or
distract themselves from their current hardships. Already established, pre-depression era magazines such as the
Saturday Evening Post, Time, and Reader's Digest continued to sell well. Many others with very focused content, such
as Modern Screen and Fortune were launched and succeeded as well. Though the Depression wouldn't appear to be
the best time to start a new business, many magazines that originated during that time have lasted.

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