Week 23 Oklahoma Studies Weekly

It can be useful to learn about history through ______________.

• only reading about it in textbooks and other history books

• guessing the things that happened and imagining what they were like

• only researching historical events on the internet

• talking to people who lived through and remember historical events

What are some events that you will learn about this week?

• the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

• the Statehood of Oklahoma and the Dust Bowl

• Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory

• the Great Depression and Great Recession

To have experienced the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, a person would have had to be alive in ______________.

• Oklahoma

• this century

• the 1800s

• the 1930s

What are centenarians?

• people who are over 100 years old

• mythical creatures who are half horse and half man

• people who arrange interviews with other people

• journalists who interview older people

Why would it be useful to use a camera to record an interview?

• It would help you sell the video

• It will allow you to share the video with the person who you interviewed.

• It will help you accurately remember the information the person shares.

• It will allow you to go back and review the mistakes you made.

Why would people keep articles from old papers or journals?

• They do not clean up their house often.

• They lost them in the past and suddenly found them.

• They saved them to use in crafting activities.

• They can help them remember events from the past.

What could farmers do in the winter to help prevent erosion?

• save money for crops that they would plant in the spring

• grow plants that would keep the topsoil in place

• plan to leave the area due to upcoming difficulties

• stop plowing the land that used to grow crops

What was so bad about the "worst hard time" during the Dust Bowl?

• Crops would not grow in the winter.

• Water flooded all of the crops in Oklahoma.

• The wind blew so fiercely that people could not plant crops.

• Crops died even in the summertime.

Why were dust storms called black blizzards?

• The clouds of blowing dust looked black as they came across the plains.

• The temperature dropped when the dust clouds came through the plains.

• The dust coated everything and made the whole plains region look black.

• The dust storms created a difficult time for everyone living on the plains.

What did Woody Guthrie do?

• He was a traveler.

• He was a politian.

• He was a musician.

• He was a writer.