The Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl
11th Grade American History
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• In the study of
• history
• Empathy
• To walk in anothers shoes

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Dust 1,000 feet high
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We live, eat, and sleep dust
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300 million tons of dust
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5 million acres of wheat
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• 800,000 people
• migrated
• from MO,
• AK, OK,
• TX alone

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RAFT R ROLEA AUDIENCEF FORMAT T
TOPIC
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DIARY OR LETTER FARMER IN THE LAST MAN
CLUBMOTHER NURSING CHILD W/ DUST PNEUMONIA
CHILD WATCHING HER PARENTS COPE
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Website Resources

• Website resources
• Photos
• Dust Bowl Photographs
• Video
• Dust Bowl 1936

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Invitation