Overview: You will pretend to be a child living during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In your journal, you are to write about how the events of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl are affecting you and your family's lives. Make sure that you describe what life is like and what your thoughts and feelings are about having to live through these big events.
Your journal should include information or details about how the economic situation of the Great Depression and the environmental catastrophe (disaster) of the Dust Bowl affected the life of an ordinary American, in this case, an American child.
Directions:
You will be a child growing up during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
(Remember, your journal or diary must be based on factual things that were going on
at the time.)
Include the following information within your journal:
Male or Female Child
Age
Family Details -- only child or from a large family?
Live in a rural area in a very small town, on a farm, or in an urban area?
Daily details about what living your life is like during the Great Depression and/or
Dust Bowl
Worries or concerns that you and your family would have
(CAN SOMEONE HELP ME WITH THIS PLEASE I NEED THIS AND MT GRADE WILL GO UP PLEASE SOMONE HELP ME
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Use your imagination, and dive in. If you want someone to check over what you write, be sure to post it here.