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 The information below provides information about the document. Noticing and considering this information when reading and trying to understand a document is called **//"sourcing of the //** **//document." //** Who wrote it? //- President Lyndon B. Johnson, a President who idolized FDR and wanted to use government programs to help Americans //  Who was the audience? - **//The American people //**  When was it written? – **//1964 //**  What was going at the time? - //The Civil Rights movement and the early years of the War in Vietnam // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif';"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif';">Primary Source - Excerpts from President Lyndon B. Johnson's “Great Society” ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif';">Speech - May, 1964 ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldItalicMT','sans-serif';"> **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldItalicMT','sans-serif';">The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, //**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">to which we are totally committed in our time. // //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">But that is just the beginning. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldItalicMT','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">… I want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the Great Society -- in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms. // //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">… In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes, highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States. // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">…Our society will never be great until our cities are great. // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">A second place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our countryside. // //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">We have always prided ourselves on being not only America the strong and America the free, but America the beautiful. Today that beauty is in danger. The water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution... Green fields and dense forests are disappearing… // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal. // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished five years of school. Nearly 54 million -- more than one quarter of all America -- have not even finished high school. // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it… // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from //<span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';">Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty. // <span style="font-family: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif';"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif';">Understanding the readings – Gathering Information from the background and a primary ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif';">source document: answer the following questions ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">1. According to President Johnson, why, in 1964, were we not yet a “Great Society?” <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(A) Not enough people graduated from college <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(B) Most Americans were poor. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(C) Three places in our society, the cities, the countryside, and the classrooms, faced <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">problems that need to be solved. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(D) He believed that achieving a “Great Society” was not possible. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">2. With which of the following position’s on today’s society would President likely agree? <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(A) We have achieved a “Great Society.” <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(B) If we are to achieve a “Great Society,” we have to make progress in making sure <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">that all Americans share in the wealth our society produces. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(C) People living in poverty should next not expect any help in trying to improve their <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">economic situation. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(D) A person’s educational level is not connected to their economic success. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">3. Which of the following statements best connects Johnson’s “Great Society” to President <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal?” <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(A) The Great Society was created to solve problems created by the New Deal. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(B) The Great Society sought, like to the New Deal, to improve the lives of Americans <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">facing economic hardships. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(C) The Great Society had no connection to the New Deal. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif';">(D) The Great Society and New Deal were both ideas of the Republican Party.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 28pt;">Task 1 ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif';">- Read the following primary source document, an excerpt from a speech by President Lyndon Johnson, and answer the questions that follow. **