We are studying the years of the Depression, the times of the Dust Bowl, and American experience leading up to World War II.
The Dust Bowl natural disaster affected the Great Plains, that broad expanse of land between the Rocky Mountains in the west and the Appalachian Mountains in the east.
Books read
Books read
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Dust Bowl: Great Diasters, Reforms, and Ramifications by Therese DeAngelis and Gina De Angelis
Movies seen
Grapes of Wrath
Grapes of Wrath
Bound for Glory
Here is an informative link about soil erosion.
This teaching site explores causes of the Dust Bowl.
We examined thematic and emblematic differences between America the Beautiful by Irving Berlin and This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
Map Source: Surviving the Dust Bowl
We examined thematic and emblematic differences between America the Beautiful by Irving Berlin and This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
We are now beginning to consider World War II and just finished Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford.
Map Source: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Photo by Arthur Rothstein: Dust Storm near Dalhart, Texas, 1936
