Visual Hook
OER PROJECT: WH1200 / LESSON 7.5 OPENERVISUAL HOOKUnless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “Visual Hook”, OER Project, www.oerproject.com/1PurposePreview the content of this lesson and work on your image-analysis skills by examining a selection of photographs from the 1920s and 1930s.Process1.Examine the photographs belowor view the images online. If you can, work with a partner.2.Create questions based on the content of the images:•Write two to four questions you have about the images as a set.•Based on the images, write two to four questions you have about the factors that led to the Great Depression.•Based on the images, write two to four questions about the large-scale economic, social, or political impacts of the Great Depression.
OER PROJECT: WH1200 / LESSON 7.5 OPENERVISUAL HOOK2•Based on the images, write two to four questions about the ways that the Great Depression affected individuals and small communities.3.You can, team up with another pair of students and see if you can answer each other’s questions.Above: Unemployed men march in Perth, Western Australia,to see Premier Sir James Mitchellin 1931. Image courtesy of the State Library of Western Australia.Above: A crowd of people gather outside the New York Stock Exchange following the Crash of 1929. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.Left: People waiting to receive food assistance at a commodity relief line, San Antonio, Texas, 1939.
OER PROJECT: WH1200 / LESSON 7.5 OPENERVISUAL HOOK3Above: “The King of Inflation.” This man is wearing a suit made of German coins, which had become worthless due to inflation, 1923.Above: Community soup kitchens to feed the unemployed, in Santiago, Chile, 1932. Chile’s economy collapsed after global demand for nitrates and copper—two of its largest exports—plummeted.Above: People lined up at a food relief center after the Ohio River flooded Louisville, Kentucky, 1937.Above: Children play with worthless German currency, 1920s.