The New Deal Priming Activity: List Group Label 

Divide the class in small groups of 4-5 in each group.

Give each group the following group of words (to save time – cut them apart first).

Ask students to make at least 2 categories with the words (they can more than 2) and label the categories they created with sticky notes.

After each group has completed the sorting, they should view how other groups categorized their words.

banks

 

 

dreams

 

alphabet soup

 

doctor

 

 

unemployment

 

camps

 

economics

 

 

crisis

 

expand

 

power

 

 

dams

 

budgets

 

Programs

 

 

insurance

 

stocks

 

farmer

 

 

subsidy

 

elderly

 

court

 

 

New Deal

 

Herbert Hoover

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

writers

 

artists