Adventures in Time and Place

Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 4: New Jersey
Infographic #7: The New Deal in New Jersey
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1. Do you know what Roosevelt, New Jersey, has to do with the New Deal? Find out interesting facts about this New Jersey town and the New Deal. Read about Jersey Homesteads.
http://scc01.rutgers.edu/njh/welcome.htm

Click the sign. Then listen as your teacher reads the first four paragraphs.
What did you learn about Roosevelt, New Jersey?
Click famous mural in the fourth paragraph and study the mural by Ben Shahn.
Click a panel and examine the details. Then click the Back arrow. Click and examine the other panels.
Think about the scenes in the mural. What are the people doing? How do they feel?

Online Activity: New Deal Artwork!
Use the information from the Web site to answer the following questions. Type your answers into the spaces provided.

1. In the left panel, Ben Shahn drew pictures of immigrants arriving in America. Which part of the picture shows people travelling? How can you tell?

2. Jersey Homesteads was a New Deal project that provided a home, and farm and factory jobs for immigrants. Study the panels of the mural. What kind of factory jobs did the people in Jersey Homesteads have? Describe two parts of the mural that show people working in a factory.

3. People who settled in Jersey Homesteads could buy a house for $500. Which part of the third panel suggests a planned community of houses?

4. After viewing these panels, describe what you think life was like in Jersey Homesteads during the 1930s.

2. Life during the Great Depression was very different from the way it is today. Read the stories of people who survived these difficult economic times by visiting "We Made Do…"
http://www.mcsc.k12.in.us/mhs/social/madedo/

Click Transcribed Oral History.
With your teacher, click and read the interview with Glen Jones. Click the Back arrow.
Then click and read the interview with Charles and Dorothy Nelson.
Click the Back arrow twice. Then click Prices of the era to see how much things cost during the 1930s.

Offline Activity: Prices, Then and Now!
You learned about the cost of living between the years 1930-1933. Pick six items from the Web site to research. Use supermarket fliers and newspaper advertisements to find the cost of those items today. But be careful! At the Web site, many of the things are listed in pounds or packages. Be sure you compare the same quantities! Once your research is complete, report your findings and create a class list of prices.