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The Dust Bowl Odyssey

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Great information, images, and wonderful higher-order thinking questions await your class. They'll discuss, consider, and examine multiple factors related to the Dust Bowl. A cross-media comparison is made between the historical events of the Dust Bowl, primary source images, and the book Grapes of Wrath.

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10th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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