Book Detail
Children of the Dust Bowl |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Stanley, Jerry | Illustrator: photographs |
| Title: Children of the Dust Bowl | Date: 1992 |
| Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. | City: New York, NY |
| ISBN, paperback: | ISBN, hardback: 0-517-88094-6 |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): nonfiction, photographic essay | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| The book recounts the migration of the "Okies" during the Great Depression to the camps in California. School Superintendent Leo Hart began the Weedpatch School where children of the migrants escaped the ostracism of the locals in a model learn-by-doing environment. These camps were the basis for John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. The author includes a foreword about the links to Steinbeck's book and a bibliography of archival sources. | |
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| Using the book in conjunction with Grapes of Wrath would provide maps, photographs, and background information. MacLachlan's What You Know First would provide a companion text for less advanced readers. The section on the creation of Weedpatch School could be excerpted for a unit on how we learn. Since the Great Depression is still remembered by older members of families, students could use the book and its use of archival materials as a model to write about how the Depression affected their families. www.amatecom.con/greatdepression.html; www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html | |
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