The Bonus Army: Watch this 26 minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSC1lbfXfRQ
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What do you find most disturbing about this 1932 event?
Why do you think the House passed the Bonus Bill and the Senate did not?
If you were covering this story for the press, what four people would you interview and why?
What is the overall lesson that this story seeks to convey?
Read Echoes of the Jazz Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
https://pdcrodas.webs.ull.es/anglo/ScottFitzgeraldEchoesOfTheJazzAge.pdf
1. Contrast his first sentence to his last sentence. What do you think his purpose was in creating
this contrast?
2. Pick two other sentences in this essay that explain The Great Gatsby the best.
3. How can this an essay really be seen as an explanation of the Great Depression, rather than the
merely a retrospective on the 20s?