Great Depression: Adobe Spark Edition

As they say, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’! Well, in your case, it is worth only about four hundred words, but you get the point.

Each group has been given an image from the Great Depression. Your job today is to use Adobe Spark (free app), in generating the broader story of this image. Please create a narrative, using as much factual information as you can from the image, along with historical fiction in filling out the remaining story. Although each individual experienced something different in the Great Depression, what are some generalities we can make about who this person/people may have been?

Contemplate these questions as you work:

1) What can I ascertain from this image? Can I identify a general (or specific) date based on the contents of the image?

2) What is happening in the picture? What are our ‘facts’?3) What might their life have been like before the depression? 4) What FEPS (facts, events, people, statistics) do we have that can help to

explain the image?5) Who might these people be? What types of work do/did they have? What

family situation might they have? How has their life been shaped by the depression?

Requirements for Adobe Voice product:

1) Tell a story of historical fiction that incorporates as much fact as possible from the image.

2) No longer than 3 minutes in length3) 300 - 400 words of speech4) Incorporate the original image into your story (you may use other images,

but it is not necessary)5) Include a song for part of or all the video. Make sure the song does not

detract from the story.

When finished, we will pair your group up with another group. You will watch each other’s video and evaluate on the following page (tomorrow).

Good luck!

Mr. McPherson

Names of ‘Spark’ creators _____________________________________________________

Names of peer reviewers ______________________________________________________

What is the general story of the Spark video?

What FEPS were incorporated during the video?

What was done particularly well in the video?

Was there anything that could have been incorporated (either visually or in the storyline), to enhance the product?

Names of ‘Spark’ creators _____________________________________________________

Names of peer reviewers ______________________________________________________

What is the general story of the Spark video?

What FEPS were incorporated during the video?

What was done particularly well in the video?

Was there anything that could have been incorporated (either visually or in the storyline), to enhance the product?

‘Bonus Army’

‘Dust Bowl’

‘Unemployed Italian, 1930’

‘Seattle Hooverville, Late 1930s”

‘Florida to New Jersey, 1930s’

‘Bank Run in LA, 1929’

‘Kansas children, 1930s’

‘Police scuffle with Bonus Army, Washington D.C.’

‘Soup Kitchen, 1933’

‘Dust pneumonia’

‘Oct. 29th, 1929 – Outside New York Stock Exchange’

‘Bread Line’

‘Youth riding the rails – 1930s’

‘Unemployment sign – 1930s’

‘Public Housing’

‘Evicted Sharecroppers – Missouri’