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FDR declares unlimited national emergency
May 27, 1941
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesLesson 4: FDR and the Lend-Lease Act
This lesson shows students how broadly the Lend-Lease Act of March 1941 empowered the federal government—particularly the President—and asks students to investigate how FDR promoted the program in speeches and then in photographs.
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Memorial Day observed
May 27, 2013
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Lesson Plan / Art & CultureHomer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field
Students will compare and contrast Winslow Homer's painting The Veteran in a New Field with Timothy O'Sullivan's photograph A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, 1863. Students will imagine what a returned Civil War veteran might think and remember as he tends his wheat fields back home. Students will read a Civil War soldier's diary excerpt prior to writing and acting out a monologue.
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