Question

I have to write a letter. I have no time to write it & I waited until the last minute to do it! any one want to help me???

Your task is to create a letter in the voice of a person growing up in the 1930s. This letter will be written to a person living in the year 2007. Before you begin your research, consider the name, gender, race, and age of the "character" you will become. Also, decide the audience for your letter. This might be a friend, family member, or teacher.

Causes and Effects of the Great Depression,Family, New Deal, and Standard of Living, School & Friends Social & political

Answer 1

Sure, I can help you. Stop messing around on the Internet and go write your letter. You don't have "no time" to do it unless it's literally due in the next 30 minutes. Half an hour is plenty of time to write a letter -- and it's about how long a real person writing a letter would've taken anyway.

What you mean is you don't have time to do enough research to make it a very good letter. Oh well. There's no cure for that except a time machine, so file that result away for use in your next life planning session.

But don't turn defeat into dishonor by asking to borrow someone else's ideas and hard work and pass it off as your own. Write a bad letter. Look up just one or two facts about the Depression -- with Google, that should take you about 10 minutes. Then write your letter around just that one fact, or two facts, combined with what you already know and how you would write a real letter, yourself. For example, you may know (or can rapidly find out) that in the Depression lots of people lots their jobs, and then the family lost their home. Imagine this has happened to you. Your dad lost his job four months ago, and he's looked and looked, but can't find another, and today the sheriff is coming to throw you out of the house because the mortgage hasn't been paid. Write a letter of pain and fear and outrage about that, and what you and your mom and sister are doing.

You won't get an A. But you won't get an F, and the work will be your own, and you'll have tried your best, even if you started at a late date. Your honor is worth more than the grade, anyway.

Answer 2

By the way, let me add I'm not unsympathetic. I've been in your shoes, more than once. We all have. I'm just trying to stiffen your moral spine a little, reinforce the voice of your conscience, and encourage you to think beyond the immediate issue -- the letter and your grade -- and of the more important ultimate questions of how you want to live your life.

Answer 3

Thanks.