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Schedule

Feb 11 - Turnittin and APA Citation Cover Page

Feb 6 - APA Citations in text

Project due - Feb 13

Topics

Choose one of the following categories or subjects for the research paper.

• 1. What happened during Roosevelt’s 100 Days?

  2. What was Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy?

  3. What kind of first lady was Eleanor Roosevelt?

  4. Discuss the importance and impact of radio during the 1930’s?

  5. What were some of the more popular movies during the 1930s?

  6. Describe popular music during the 1930s?

  7. Describe the Bonus Army and what happened to it?

  8. What was the New Deal?

  9. What were the causes of the Great Depression?

  10. What happened during the Dust Bowl?

  11. Describe some of the more prominent Criminals during the 1930s.

  12. Describe some popular sports during the 1930s.

General Resources

Iowaaeaonline.

Britannica On-line

Link to Assignment

Link to Rubric

APA Citation Format - In Text

During the Depression, poor children felt bad "among their more fortunate friends and classmates" (Freedman, 2005, p. 39).

According to Freedman (2005), a quarter of all Americans lived on farms.

Freedman (2005) discussed how kids jumped on passing trains: "It was no trick for a swift, skinny kid to grab the run of a ladder on a slow-moving freight, then climb up on top or swing into an empty boxcar, going who knows where." (p. 72)

APA Citation Format - Examples of Reference List and In-Text

Garchik's Non-sensical Reference Examples

Book

Freedman, R. (2005). Children of the Great Depression. New York, NY: Clarion Books.

During the Depression, poor children felt bad "among their more fortunate friends and classmates" (Freedman, 2005, p. 39).

Current Biography

"Eleanor Roosevelt" (1940). In M. Block (Ed.), Current biography: Who's new and why 1940 (pp. 691-693).

New York, NY: H.W. Wilson Company

Sixty-eight percent of Americans in 1930 approve of Eleanor Roosevelt (Block, 1940).

Website

Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2016). Children and the Great Depression. Digital History (2016). Retrieved from

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/children_depression/depression_children_menu.cfm

Unemployment jumped to 12.5 million by 1932 (Mintz & McNeil, 2016).

Britannica Online

Romert, C. D. & Pells, R. H. (2017, October 27). Encyclopædia Britannica.

Retrieved from https://britannica.com/event/Great-Depression

People sheltered in Hoovervilles, "where homeless families sought refuge in shelters cobbled together from salvaged wood, cardboard, and tin" (Romer & Pells, 2017, para , 2018 para 35).

http://tinyurl.com/OHSDep