Blogs

On this day, Mr. Bruns handed out assignments for the Assigned Blog #1. I am going to research rural life in the Depression. Here's my information on that:
Though city life had advantages throughout the depression, farmers could grow their own food. B

Today Mr. Bruns assigned us topics for our first assigned blog about the great depression. We are all assigned the same two topics which are the following..

Causes of the great depression and Causes of the stock markets. I was also assigned the topic,

Here were the topics I was assigned for the assigned blog:

Causes of the Great Depression:
Stock Market crash in 1929: The stock market crash and the Great Depression went pretty much hand in hand when it came to economic failure. After the crash, whic

Causes of the Stock Market Crash of 1929

 The investors bought borrowed

http://www.money-zine.com/Investing/Stocks/Stock-Market-Crash-of-1929/

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/greatdepression.htm

Topics:

Causes of the Stock Market Crash:

• the Roaring Twenties was a time period of wealth and sucess
• days leading up to, market was serverly unstabble
• october 24, 11% market lost value
• Thursday 24th (dow jones was at 299.5) and tuesday 29th - Black thurs

Today I learned how to do forums and blogs. Mr. Bruns taught us how to hyper link correctly and do assigned blogs. He talked about how to get extra credit and the classroom rules and expectations.