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Title: Out of the Dust


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Out of the Dust
  • By Katie Gremar

2
What is the dust bowl?
  • Took place in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Caused by drought and lack of crop rotations by
    farmers
  • Soil dried up and began to blow
  • Crops failed
  • Animals died
  • Many moved to California

3
Summary
  • Billie Jo and her mother and father live in
    Oklahoma in the 1930s.
  • Billie Jo loves to play the piano and gets to
    travel with Mad Dog playing shows.
  • Billie Jo and her Mama are burned in an accident
    involving kerosene, Billie Jos hands are burned
    and Mama is burned so badly that she dies and so
    does the baby she is carrying.
  • Billie Jo and her father are like strangers after
    Mamas death.
  • Eventually Billie Jos father meets a new woman,
    Billie Jo makes up with her father, and rain
    comes.

4
Main Characters
  • Billie Jo
  • Ma
  • Pa
  • Mad Dog
  • Aunt Ellis
  • Louise
  • Miss Freeland

Click on picture for crossword puzzle
5
Setting
  • Oklahoma
  • 1930s
  • During the dust bowl
  • Drought
  • Economic depression

Click on map for information about States
6
Conflicts
  • Man vs. Man Billie Jo vs. Pa
  • Man vs. Nature Everyone in Oklahoma vs. the dust
    and drought
  • Man vs. Himself Billie Jo cannot forgive herself
    after burning Ma Pa cannot forgive himself for
    leaving the kerosene on the stove other
    characters struggle against themselves such as
    the man Billie Jo meets on the trian.

7
Resolution
  • After running away Billie Jo returns and forgives
    her father
  • Billie Jo and Pas relationship begins to heal
  • Pa falls in love with Louise
  • Rain comes and fills Pas pond
  • Life continues and Billie Jo and Pa learn to love
    again.

8
Links
  • Lind to crossword puzzle on main characters
    slide
  • http//library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312210/hillcpu.ht
    m
  • Link to states information on setting slide
  • http//www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

9
Photo Sources
  • To book cover on main characters slide
  • http//images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7380000/73
    82202.jpg
  • -To map of entire United States on Setting slide
  • http//www.mapsofworld.com/usa/states/oklahoma/map
    s/oklahoma-location-map.gif

10
Photo Sources Continued
  • To map of just Oklahoma on setting slide
  • http//superawesomevillains.files.wordpress.com/20
    07/08/oklahoma.jpg
  • -To background picture of dust bowl on What is
    the dust bowl? Slide
  • http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews
    /ReleaseImages/20040318/01_theb1365.jpg
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