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Part of the poem “Something Lost, Something Gained” and the small part of the “Dust Bowl” article have a connection.  The lines I chose for the poem talk about how there was so much dust covered over the biscuits and the lines I chose from the “Dust Bowl” article talk about how houses and belongings were always dirty, causing people to always be dirty and there belongings to be dirty, which is why a lot of people got very sick.  Keren Hesse did not alter history here because this was true, many people knew that there was dust all over the place but they really thought it would be okay, becaus they thought they were used to it.

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This small part of the “Dust Bowl” article talks about how people’s houses and belongings were always dirty, basically with dust.  There would be dust all over the place.

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Pg.200 (pdf)

These lines are part of the poem called “Something Lost, Something Gained” on page 200.  These lines talk about how even though biscuits were layered with dust the man still ate them.  However, the man eating them is not the important part.  The important part is how there is so much dust on the biscuits.  Since, it was the dust bowl and the dust could not been stopped, people and people’s belongings would always be dirty with dust.

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Part of the poem “Finding a Way” on page 227 and the article “The Dust Bowl” have a connection because the poem is talking about   how Billie Jo’s father is going to plant the rest of the acres in wheat and the small paragraph in the article talks about factors that caused the Dust Bowl and one of the reasons is that they planted crops too often, they would not give the soil a break and since they did not do that, it was one part of what caused the Dust Bowl.  That is how the poem “Finding a Way” and the “Dust Bowl” article have a connection.  Keren Hesse is not altering history because she is basically making the character (Billie Jo’s father) do what was part of what caused the Dust Bowl.

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This paragraph from the “Dust Bowl” article talks about what the factors were that caused the Dust Bowl.   One reason why was because people plowed over all of the natural prairie grasses that kept the soil, when they wanted to plant all the wheat possible.  The second reason why was because people planted crops to often, they would not give the soil a break every now and then.  These are the two main reasons why the dust bowl occurred.

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Pg. 227 (pdf)

These small lines that are part of the poem “Finding
a Way” talks about how Billie Jo’s father was going to plant all of the acres in wheat.

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The small lines from the poem “Blankets of Black” On pg. 166 and the outside source (pbs.org) have a connection between the two because they both talk about how the dust from the dust bowl could  produce such a high static charge that it would ruin a cars ingnition, making people suffer.  Keren Hesse uses imagery and dialogue as the structure and word choice of the small lines of this poem to show the theme by showing how at times when you think everything is okay and nothing bad is going to happen for once, something might happen the very next minute something very bad might happen.  Also, Keren Hesse did not alter history here because this was true, about the static electricity.

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“The Dirty Thirties”

Then the drought began. It would last eight straight years. Dust storms, at first considered freaks of nature, became commonplace. Static charges in the air shorted-out automobiles on the road; men avoided shaking hands for fear of shocks that could knock a person to the ground. Huge drifts of dirt buried pastures and barnyards, piled up in front of homesteaders' doors, came in through window cracks and sifted down from ceilings.”

(Lines from the oustside source)

These lines are from the website PBS.org.  These lines show how powerful the dust was.  It was so powerful that it caused static charges in the air.  Causing a lot of vehicles to be ruined.

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This is a picture of  part of the poem Blankets of Black.  This is about how static electricity could not start the cars/trucks anymore making them not no help.  This was due to one thing, the dust.

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The small lines from the poem “Loosing Livie” on page seven and the outside source I found from pbs.org are similar because pbs.org talks about how so many people moved away from the area of where the dust bowl was.  It says how by 1940 2.5 million people moved out of the Plain states (where the dust bowl was occurring.) Plus, this relates to the lines I specifically chose from the book because at that time a lot of people were moving and Billie Jo’s friend was moving.  I think the author Keren Hesse was not trying to alter history because a lot of people were moving at the time Livie was moving.  However, not everyone made it to the destination they wanted to be.

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-mass-exodus-plains/            {(source)

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-mass-exodus-plains/            {(source)

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“In the rural area outside Boise City, Oklahoma, the population dropped 40% with 1,642 small farmers and their families pulling up stakes. The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California.”  (Lines from the outside source)

These lines are showing how so many people moved to California or anywhere else except where the Dust  Bowl was due to how dangerous it was.  However, not everyone made it alive, trying to go somewhere else.

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Some lines of the Poem Losing Livie (Pg.7)  

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Some lines of the Poem Losing Livie (Pg.7)  

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These couple of lines are about how Livie is moving away.  At that time many people moved away to be away from the Dust and be safe.

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This shows how people were in poverty when the dust bowl was happening.  Since, the dust bowl was ruining families crops, no one was making money. The author Karen Hesse was not altering history there because a lot of  people were in poverty and the unemployment rate was very high.

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This is text from the poem Mr. Hardly’s Money Handling On page 17. 

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This is text from the poem Mr. Hardly’s Money Handling On page 17. 

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This is about how the family(ma) does not have enough money to really buy a present for his wife

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This is article is about how refugees were moving from Oklahoma and how there was a lot of economic crisis and unemployment.

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Both the poem “Beat Wheat” and the text from the passage “On Drought Conditions” have a connection because they both talk about how a lot of  wheat is getting withered or blown away. Plus, more and more wheat  is dying because there is not rain everyday.  In addition the article talks about how families have not only lost wheat but a lot of other crops.  Kernel Hesse is not altering history here because this was true.

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Here is a picture of an article that was about FDR sating stuff about how so many families have been loosing wheat.

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Here is a picture of a poem that talks about how a lot of wheat is going away.

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These are some lines from the “Dust  Bowl” article that takes about how bad the weather was, during the dust bowl

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Connection 1

Both the text from the article “The Dust Bowl” and the poem “Breaking Drought” have a connection because they both are talking about how bad the whether was and how there was all types of whether except rain.  The article goes a bit more in detail and explains everything but does not talk about the rain and the poem talks about when the rain came.  However they both make a connection.  Keren Hesse is not altering history because the weather was n the book was the actual weather that was in real life.

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(Pg.34)

This is a picture of a poem from the book.  The poem is called “Breaking Droughts.”  The peom talks about how there was all types of weather during the dust bowl but there was never rain.

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In the CommonLit article "The Dust Bowl," the author Jessica McBirney mentions that many families would move west to find more work and shelter from the dust during the time period. She also states that it was difficult to find jobs in California because the U.S. was going through an economic crisis.

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Both passages discuss moving out west as a means of surviving the Dust Bowl, however, the poem does not give much detail about Livie's move or the outcomes of the move. The nonfiction article makes me wonder if Livie's family found work out west or if they were just as stuck as they were in Oklahoma among the dust. How successful was moving for families? How often was this move made during the Dust Bowl?

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In this poem from "Out of the Dust," Billie Jo talks about her best friend moving away. Livie's family was headed out west to California "where the wind takes a rest sometimes" and Billie Jo finds that she is jealous that Livie gets to essentially leave the dust and hardships behind her.

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ADD EXPLANATION HERE OF HOW THE FICTIONAL PASSAGE DIRECTLY RELATES TO THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE (WAS ANYTHING ALTERED IN THE NOVEL? HOW WELL DID THE AUTHOR DO AT USING HISTORY IN THIS PASSAGE? ETC.)

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ADD TITLE HERE ABOUT HISTORICAL REFERENCE BEING MADE

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ADD TITLE HERE ABOUT HISTORICAL REFERENCE BEING MADE

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ADD ANNOTATION OR PERSONAL REFLECTION ABOUT BOOK SNAP/PASSAGE HERE

ATTACH A PHOTO OF PASSAGE OR BOOK SNAP (COULD BE FROM OUT OF THE DUST OR A NONFICTION ARTICLE ABOUT THE DUST BOWL)

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ADD ANNOTATION OR PERSONAL REFLECTION ABOUT PASSAGE AND CHARACTERS

ATTACH A PHOTO OF PASSAGE/BOOK SNAP

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1. MAKE A COPY OF THIS PADLET by clicking [REMAKE] in the top right corner.
2. Read "Out of the Dust" and notice both fictional accounts (moments focused on the characters) and historical accounts (moments focused on the Dust Bowl as a historical event).
3. Take photos of memorable passages that directly connect the two topics.
4. Use padlet, photo editor tools, piccollage, seesaw, etc. to create "book snaps" marking important information.
5. Upload  your book snaps to this padlet and add additional annotations to explain your thinking.
6. (DO NOT COMPLETE UNTIL END OF NOVEL) Add a final post with your overall analysis of the standard by answering the following question: How does the author of "Out of the Dust" compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period? How does the author use fiction and alter history?