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Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or whether they would leave.
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- Use the resource to launch a study of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath or include in a study of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
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- Add Hoovervilles and modern farming techniques to the list of research topics
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