1. 1930s: Hard Times for Workers and Farmers
CHC2D8
Ms. Gluskin

2. Can Hard Times Make People Stronger?
NFB film Twilight of an Era,
Words:
Wessels Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s. Grasshoppers were a plague in the 1930s (March 19, 2014).

3. Word Feelings Positive or negative words?
Swarm, severe, drought, bleak, abandoned
Positive
Negative

4. Dust-Bowl Map

5. Dust Storm

6. Soil Turns to Dust
Drifted soil near Cadillac, Sask., 1937: a common sight during the Great Depression
The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Great Depression (March 19, 2014).

7. Vocabulary 92-93
Exports (noun) = what a country sends out for trade with other countries
Raw materials (noun) = resources such as wheat, gold, wood products
Tariffs (noun) = taxes on imports
Prosperous (adjective) = well off
Dust bowl (noun) = an area where the ground is so dry that crops can’t grow and dust storms happen frequently
Bushel (noun) = an amount of a crop (such as a bushel of wheat)
Drought (noun) = a long period of time with less than normal amounts of rain or snow
Severe (adjective) = very bad
Bleak (adjective) = very negative view of the future, with no hope
Swarm (noun) = a large group of insects
Abandoned (adjective) = left without care

8. Dependence on US Economy

9. Drylanders Watch the film and fill in the worksheet.

10. Homework
Finish Worksheet on Workers and Farmers and Dependence on US Economy.