This website review is on shmoop and the Franklin Delanor Roosevelt’s New Deal from his first election in 1932 to the end of the New Deal and beginning of world war two in 1939. After reading about the New Deal in Chapter 24 and my interest in the roaring 20’s, and my love of studying world war two, I had never really learned about the true tough times the United States had for over nine years. Because of this, I chose this website because it gave me a deeper understanding of the great depression and FDR before his famous speech after Pearl Harbor. Shmoop’s FDR New Deal section grabbed my attention right off the bat with its goofy yet informational youtube clip about the New Deal. Over the duration of this class I have always been enamored
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The relief help families gave them a paycheck which allowed them to feed their family and kept families out of poverty. Relief was overall great for the U.S. which leads us to reform FDR regulated the economy to prevent from corruption which is not the “laissez faire” we normally used in the past and still use today. This can be a good and bad thing so we don’t really know if it was a good or bad thing till this day. Finally we have recovery, unemployment remained similar to what it was before FDR’s presidency and economic growth dwindled which did not help his case. So was FDR’s New Deal a good or bad thing? Shmoop, changed my mind and proved to me that it was a good and bad thing at the same time because it succeeded in some areas and failed in others. This website gave me a different perspective of FDR, to me I always thought of him as the one who declared war on the Japanese and started the construction of the atom bomb. However, if it was not for his first hundred days and New Deal those defining moments would have never …show more content…
When clicking on this website all you see is a bunch of links for college, test prep and then below is just a blank white space. I was confused at first, then I scrolled down and the information was there. It was a bit off setting, however, I noticed the youtube clip and clicked play and then I never looked back. They did a great job giving key details and making the viewer wanting more. After getting past the confusing top of the page the rest of the website is very easy to navigate. One can go from the beginning or back just by following the key on the left of the page from the Introduction all the way to Teaching. Shmoop breaks down each individual part of the New Deal into Ideology, Politics, Society, Law and Race. With sub headings in each part, this creates a clear notion of where the reader is. While reading if one does not know what a word means and comes upon a orange high lighted and underlined word, they just need to click and another link will pop up, and give the reader a better understanding of the word, and or phrase. However, this can get confusing if they do not continually exit out of tabs they have already viewed and can get distracting, and make someone lose there place. What I thought was extremely helpful as a teacher myself it allows us to come up with lesson plans on FDR and his presidency for third to fifth graders. My only other observation that was confusing is they have a
The relief help families gave them a paycheck which allowed them to feed their family and kept families out of poverty. Relief was overall great for the U.S. which leads us to reform FDR regulated the economy to prevent from corruption which is not the “laissez faire” we normally used in the past and still use today. This can be a good and bad thing so we don’t really know if it was a good or bad thing till this day. Finally we have recovery, unemployment remained similar to what it was before FDR’s presidency and economic growth dwindled which did not help his case. So was FDR’s New Deal a good or bad thing? Shmoop, changed my mind and proved to me that it was a good and bad thing at the same time because it succeeded in some areas and failed in others. This website gave me a different perspective of FDR, to me I always thought of him as the one who declared war on the Japanese and started the construction of the atom bomb. However, if it was not for his first hundred days and New Deal those defining moments would have never …show more content…
When clicking on this website all you see is a bunch of links for college, test prep and then below is just a blank white space. I was confused at first, then I scrolled down and the information was there. It was a bit off setting, however, I noticed the youtube clip and clicked play and then I never looked back. They did a great job giving key details and making the viewer wanting more. After getting past the confusing top of the page the rest of the website is very easy to navigate. One can go from the beginning or back just by following the key on the left of the page from the Introduction all the way to Teaching. Shmoop breaks down each individual part of the New Deal into Ideology, Politics, Society, Law and Race. With sub headings in each part, this creates a clear notion of where the reader is. While reading if one does not know what a word means and comes upon a orange high lighted and underlined word, they just need to click and another link will pop up, and give the reader a better understanding of the word, and or phrase. However, this can get confusing if they do not continually exit out of tabs they have already viewed and can get distracting, and make someone lose there place. What I thought was extremely helpful as a teacher myself it allows us to come up with lesson plans on FDR and his presidency for third to fifth graders. My only other observation that was confusing is they have a