Day 46: Business Cycle and solutions to the Great Depression

Current events (CTV): a look at the destruction caused by Hurricane Haiyan in the Phillippines.

Provincial exam question (example):

• CANADA EXPERIENCED MANY CHANGES DURING THE 1920s.  TO WHAT EXTENT DID CANADA'S NATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE DURING THESE YEARS, AND WHAT FACTORS (DOMESTIC AND EXTERNAL) CONTRIBUTED TO THESE CHANGES.
• Please EMAIL me if you would like a copy of the 1920s mind map

Handout: Business cycle (recession, recovery, prosperity, depression)
Overhead: a look at the housing crisis in 2008.  Close to another depression after the US mortgage/housing crisis.

Finished notes: solutions to the depression.

CPH: "The End of the Line'.  Looking at FDR and the New Deal.  Canadian labour camps.  Vancouver strike, and the On to Ottawa Trek.

Read pg. 94-100.  Questions #1, 2a, 3, 6
Read Pg 110.  How involved should the government be in the economy during a depression?

1920s/1930s project due on Monday, November 18th