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“Maybe You Could Help?” Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt

Submitted by Steven Lapham on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 4:03pm

--Mary Mason Royal
In small groups, students read and analyze letters written by children to "Eleanor" during the Great Depression. Handouts include text of seven letters.

This URL downloads all 16 pages of Middle Level Learning as a pdf of about 1.0 MB:
* http://members.ncss.org/mll/22/MLL22.pdf [1]

Roaring 20s, Great Depression [2]
Middle Level Learning [3]
Middle Level [4]
US History [5]

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/maybe-you-could-help-letters-eleanor-roosevelt

Links:
[1] http://members.ncss.org/mll/22/MLL22.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/roaring-20s-great-depression
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/middle-level-learning
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/middlelevel
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory