Life during the Great Depression


At the start of the march, Noel Counihan 1932

Introduction

The Task

The Process
...Timelines

Presentation

Evaluation

Role 4 - An unemployed person's child

Your role makes you the group expert on what a child's life is like when the parents are unemployed.

Select from the references listed below. You will need to read from each in order to develop your character and the ideas this character will have on Life during the Great Depression.

Fiction and Biography
Alexander, Goldie. Mavis Road medley ALEX
Collins, Alan. The boys from Bondi. COLL

Masson, Mick. Surviving the dole years. 994.042 MAS
Tennant, Kylie. The battlers. TENN
Wheatley, Nadia. The house that was Eureka. WHEA

Non-Fiction
Broomhill, Ray, Unemployed workers : a social history of the Great Depression in Adelaide. 994.042 BRO
The endless playground : celebrating Australian childhood. 305.230994 END
Spenceley, G., The depression decade : commentary and documents, 994.042 SPE
Such was life : select documents in Austalian social history 1914-1983. 994.04 SUC

Web Sites
Unemployment in the Great Depression
Source Study: The Depression in Australia

Working for the Dole: Introduction
Extracts from "The Great Crash: 1929" by John Kenneth Galbraith

Other
1932 [videorecording] 994.042 NIN
1933 [videorecording] 994.042 NIN
Land of the fair go : the Australian story [videorecording] 994.04 AUS