Dust Bowl Disaster
La catástrofe del Cuenco de Polvo
Le désastre du Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl Disaster
Dust Bowl Disaster
Dust Bowl Disaster
Dust Bowl Disaster
Dust Bowl Disaster describes the economic and personal hardships endured by farmers in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada during the 1930s. People living in this region went from prosperity to poverty as a relentless drought caused their farms to dry up and dust storms to rage. Period photographs and maps accompany the text.
Lesson Resources
Response to Reading
Ready Routine
Use the READY Routine resources to help students build strong, evidence-based responses to text-dependent questions through a scaffolded process of reading, analysis, collaborative discussion, and writing.
Read the text
Examine the question
Analyze the text
Discuss your thinking
You write a response
Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
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