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                                     Michelle Winnie
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"Of Mice and Men ​is set during the early 1930s Great Depression, in the Central Valley of California, a few miles south of Soledad by the Salinas River.  Coupled with The Great Depression, which greatly affected all walks of life during that time in America - banks running out of money and millions of people out of work everywhere--was the some six years without rain that turned [the section of the Great Plains that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma,and northeastern New Mexico,] into what history has dubbed the 'Dust Bowl.' Most farmers in that area had no choice but to sell or forfeit their farms to the banks and migrate to more fertile lands on the West Coast in hopes of restarting a better life.

Two such characters in Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie, are among those migrant farm workers, who have lived from one seasonal farming job to the next. They are poor and lonely, having very little, except their dreams, each other, and hope for a better future."

http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t5prod/wolfsonwq1.html

Part I:  Understanding the Dust Bowl of the 1930's

Causes - human and environmental
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The Dust Bowl Legacy The Discovery Channel   video
http://wn.com/hurricane_katrina_aftermath_in_the_shadow_|_retro_report_
|_the_new_york_times

Drought in the Dust Bowl Years  National Drought Mitigation Center

NASA Explains the Dust Bowl Drought

The Great Plowup
  PBS  
 
"Unless something is done," a government report predicted, "the             western plains will be as arid as the Arabian desert." 


Effect - individuals and families
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  The Dust Bowl:  Environmental Catastrophe​ PBS  video
  http://video.pbs.org/video/2284399360/ 
  "As the Great Depression sets in, farmers on the Great Plains begin to feel its effects. A combination of                   natural and made-made factors begins to turn the profitable farming land into a vast wasteland. The effect of             these factors on individuals and families is documented."  

​ Dust Pneumonia  Steelton-Highspire School District

The Storms:  Living through the Dust Bowl   Gale


   

Effect - migration the answer for some
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Early Dust Bowl Migrants  PBS American Masters video
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365305937/

Mass Exodus from the Plains  PBS American Experience   ​ 
 In 1935, photographer Dorothea Lange was assigned the job     of using her camera to document the growing number of             homeless Dust Bowl refugees migrating to California.

The Migrant Experience ​   Library of Congress
"After struggling to make it to California, many found              themselves turned away at its borders. Those who did   crossover into California found that the available labor pool was  vastly disproportionate to the number of job openings that could be filled."  

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 Effect - a new American way
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Radio interview with John Steinbeck   audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sJZpeBw6YE

Coping and Recovering  National Drought Mitigation Center
 Before the 1930s drought, federal aid had generally been           withheld in emergency situations in favor of individual and           self-reliant approaches."

Dust Bowl 1931-1939: Relief through the New Deal
  Gale World History in Context



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Natural Disasters Today -  A comparison -  Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina Aftermath:  In the Shadow  The New York Times  video
http://wn.com/hurricane_katrina_aftermath_in_the_shadow_|_retro_report_|_the_new_york_times
Disasters and Forced Migration in the 21st Century - Katrina  Perspectives from Social Science
Disasters are, in fact, increasing in impact and scope through the combined effects of                 economic, social, demographic, ideological and technological factors." 
The Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina   NY Times

Part 2:  Sharing your knowledge of the Dust Bowl through an infographic 

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Crash Course in Inforgraphics - Tips for making an infographic with style and clarity
by Bryce Bladon and Etienne Poulin

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TUTORIAL - Video 
5 minute run time
    
    

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              http://www.easel.ly/
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