Great Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration

I. Overviews of the Depression and Dust Bowl
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  1. What key facts are included in the overviews?
  2. What do the overviews tell you about life during the time period?
II. Images from the Depression and Dust Bowl
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  1. What details do you notice in the images from the Depression and Dust Bowl?
  2. What can you tell about the people, places, and situations in the photos?
  3. Choose one photo, and describe what you see in the image. What does this particular image communicate about the Depression and/or the Dust Bowl? Be sure to say which site you found the image on.
III. First-hand Descriptions of the Depression and Dust Bowl
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  1. What words and phrases stand out in the eyewitness descriptions that you read? Why do they stand out?
  2. What can you tell about the people from the memories that they share?
  3. Thinking of all the descriptions that you read, what overall comments can you make about the Depression and/or Dust Bowl? What seems to connect all the stories?
IV. Lyrics from the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
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  1. What images and details do you notice in the lyrics that you read? Why do they stand out?
  2. What do the lyrics tell you about the people who wrote and sang them?
  3. What experiences and feelings do the songs express for these people?


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