1930s: Hard Times for Workers and Farmers

1. 1930s: Hard Times for Workers and Farmers CHC2D8 Ms. Gluskin

2. Can Hard Times Make People Stronger? • https://www.nfb.ca/film/twilight_of_an_era • NFB film Twilight of an Era, 1934-1939 • Words: Wessels Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s. Grasshoppers were a plague in the 1930s. 2003. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/pests_02.html (March 19, 2014).

3. Word Feelings • Positive or negative words? • Swarm, severe, drought, bleak, abandoned

4. Dust-Bowl Map

5. Dust Storm

6. Soil Turns to Dust Drifted soil near Cadillac, Sask., 1937: a common sight during the Great Depression The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Great Depression. 2006. http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/great_depression.html (March 19, 2014).

7. Vocabulary 92-93 • Exports (noun) = what a country sends out for trade with other countries • Raw materials (noun) = resources such as wheat, gold, wood products • Tariffs (noun) = taxes on imports • Prosperous (adjective) = well off • Dust bowl (noun) = an area where the ground is so dry that crops can’t grow and dust storms happen frequently • Bushel (noun) = an amount of a crop (such as a bushel of wheat) • Drought (noun) = a long period of time with less than normal amounts of rain or snow • Severe (adjective) = very bad • Bleak (adjective) = very negative view of the future, with no hope • Swarm (noun) = a large group of insects • Abandoned (adjective) = left without care

8. Dependence on US Economy

9. Drylanders • Watch the film and fill in the worksheet. • https://www.nfb.ca/film/drylanders/

10. Homework • Finish Worksheet on Workers and Farmers and Dependence on US Economy.