The Depression

Images of America in the Thirties

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.“

Dorothea Lange

Tableau Write

• Choose a person in one of the pictures.• You must write as if you were standing inside of

that picture at that moment. • What was life like in the Great Depression for

you and those with you in the picture?• Reflect on Chapter 15

– Life before the picture– Why are you in the picture?– Who is with you and why?– Emotions