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ERIC Number: EJ198674
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Mar
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Document of the Month: Writing a Letter of Appeal.
Alexander, Mary; Byers, CeCe
Social Education, v43 n3 p198-99 Mar 1979
Secondary students examine a letter of appeal written during the Depression to President Franklin Roosevelt. The letter is from an attorney concerned with his unemployed father and his ill mother. Suggested exercises include discussion of the letter as an historical document and writing a similar letter. (KC)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Letters (Correspondence), Secondary Education, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, United States History, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Depression (Economic 1929)