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Assessment

 * Formative assessment includes class participation, answering to direct questioning, completion of key term work, mark-ups of reading, and class notes.
 * Summative assessment includes creation of Slide presentation (using [|www.slide.com]) to complete work on this lesson and questions on the unit test once overall unit is complete.

Products and Performances

 * class participation and answering of direct questions
 * key terms chart
 * marked up reading
 * summary of reading
 * embedded marked up document
 * embedded images with captions
 * variety of notebook entries

See Student Work page for examples of student work.

Skills

 * vocabulary identification and analysis
 * thoughtfully marking up a text
 * reading comprehension
 * summarizing
 * note-taking, including identification of main ideas and important details
 * historical interpretations and analysis
 * creating a presentation to summarize

Extensions & Modifications

 * As designed, the lesson incorporates a number of aspects to differentiate instruction: images, song, video, maps, and text
 * Potential modifications could include using condensed (edited by the teacher) versions of the texts in order to give shorter readings to students whose education plans, reading speeds, and/or english language difficulties necessiate such.

Materials & Resources

 * Computer for each student (though the lesson could be modified to use paper and pen)
 * Electronic whiteboard, projector, and speaker system, all attached to teacher computer (an overhead projector, transparencies, and CD player could be used instead)
 * Student development of and familiarity with online environments, including creation of a virtual notebook
 * Dust Bowl vocabulary: Drought, Great Plains, Dust Bowl, Migrant, Okie
 * 4 column vocabulary chart: term, definition, importance, image
 * various websites listed below:

WEBSITES
 * http://www.wikispaces.com/
 * wikispaces.com is a site that can be used for students to create their own online notebook
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 * site for one minute video of images and voiceover discussing the dirt storms that created the dust bowl
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 * Map of the Dust Bowl, with migrant path lines
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 * Map of U.S. geographic regions, including the Great Plains
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 * WGBH American Experience Dust Bowl introduction
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 * Woody Guthrie bio excerpt
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 * Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie (song and images)
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 * Pastures of Plenty lyrics
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 * Dorothea Lange biography
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 * Dorothea Lange Dust Bowl photos
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 * WGBH American Experience timeline of the Dust Bowl and related events
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 * Slide.com site for creating presentations

Additonal
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 * Dust Bowl overview with other links and videos from History.com