Chapter 18: The New Deal "Surviving the Dust Bowl"

Introduction
Students have read about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. In this lesson, they will learn more about the Dust Bowl from a wheat farmer who experienced these years of brutal drought and dust storms.

Lesson Description
Students will go to the Public Broadcasting System Web site and read a firsthand account from someone who experienced the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. They will then answer questions about what they have read.

Instructional Objective
Students will be able to read and answer questions about a primary source document.

Student Web Activity Answers
1. wheat farmer; Kansas
2. The dust impaired people's physical health.
3. He left the region; his financial resources were exhausted and his health was impaired.
4. He feels depressed and defeated; he talks of the storms ruining his "dreams and ambitions" and explains how the "spirit and urge to strive were dead within me."

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