Teach your students about the Great Depression. This resource is compatible for use with your Google Classroom™ or for distance learning. The passage in this versatile resource combines social studies and reading informational text in one convenient lesson. It’s an effective and engaging way to teach your students about this important era in American history. In this lesson, students explain the causes of the Great Depression, identify the effects the Great Depression had on Americans, and describe how America recovered from the Great Depression. Students will: •read a nonfiction passage about the Great Depression •complete a set of cloze notes OR graphic organizer for the passage •practice key vocabulary related to the topic •answer text-dependent questions •write a summary of the passage •demonstrate their understanding with an assessment Included in this resource: •Resource Overview •Links to Digital Resources •Lesson Plan Outline for 5 Days •Nonfiction Passage – The Great Depression •Questions to Practice Reading Strategies •Cloze Notes of the Text •Vocabulary •Text-Dependent Questions •Graphic Organizer and Writing a Summary •Multiple-Choice Assessment •Foldable for Interactive Notebooks •Answer Keys Google Slides™ or Google Forms™ Versions of the: •Nonfiction Passage •1-2-3 Text Graphic Organizer •Vocabulary Definitions with Image •Vocabulary Worksheet (Self-Grading) •Text-Dependent Questions •Summary Graphic Organizer •Assessment (Self-Grading) Why waste time and money buying separate print and digital resources for the SAME lesson? This ONE resource gives you ALL the options! 1. Digital versions let you save time at the copy machine and display them on the whiteboard, or use it for distance learning and share through your Google Classroom™.  2. Don’t need digital resources? Just print-and-go with the paper versions in the PDF. Easy! More information is included in the preview. Please LOOK AT THE PREVIEW so you can get an idea of what this resource has to offer. ►Click the Follow button and be notified when new resources are published. Happy Teaching! ~ The Reflective Educator Copyright © Sally Camden (The Reflective Educator). All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.