STEP 2: COMPREHENSIONApply the second step of the critical thinking process to guide your investigation of the research question.In the templates on this page, you’ll start by considering what you’ve learned from the primary sources you chose. Then you’ll move on to thinking about evidence you can use from the secondary sources you chose.USE YOUR PRIMARY SOURCESAs a reminder, here are the two primary sources you chose to use as you investigate your research question. These are the sources you should use as you complete the primary source template prompts.Primary Source 1: Joyce Wadler. April 1, 2009. Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression. https://login.libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.libdatab.strayer.edu/newspapers/still-they-prospered/docview/434065466/se-2?accountid=30530Primary Source 2: Franklin D. Roosevelt. July 24, 1933. Fireside Chat 3: On the National Recovery Act. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/july-24-1933-fireside-chat-3-national-recovery-administration.Use your focused questions to carefully review your primary sources, then note what you’ve learned about your issue. All answers should relate to your research question.Your research question: How can the lessons learned from the Great Depression (1929–1941) help prepare Americans for another economic depression?Focused questions related to your primary sources:• What practical ways can the Americans employ in their localities to deal with adverse effects of eceonomic depression? (Wadler, 2009).• How can individual, local, and federal efforts be integrated to develop an effective mechanism that can help Americans through an economic depression? (Roosevelt, 2016).1. What have you learned from your PRIMARY sources about the historical challenges or social changes that relate to your research question?2. What have you learned from your PRIMARY sources about how these challenges were addressed by society or how these changes affected society?3.How does the information you learned from your PRIMARY sources connect to the current issues mentioned in your research question?4.
