Evidence: (They had no irrigation system, no reservoirs to store water, no canals to bring water to their farms. If there enough rain, they were forced to sell their livestock and farm machinery wasn’t and borrow money.) Claim: (The farmers were caught in an impossible situation.) Evidence: (Farmers were already suffering from the effects of the Great Depression, which had started in 1929 when the stock market collapsed. Depression caused the price of wheat and corn to fall so low that it made growing these crops unprofitable. Many make payments to the banks that couldn’t held title to their land. In 1932, one thousand families a week in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas were losing their farms to the banks.) Claim: (Then when it seemed that things get any worse, they did.) couldn’t Evidence: (The year was 1936. It hadn’t rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle for five straight years. One day the wind started to blow, and every day it blew harder and harder. The wind knocked open doors, shattered windows, and leveled barns.) What does the text mean? Generative Reading Concepts Generalization Application – – Concepts and deviation disorder – Generalization creates Deviation disorder. – Given the concepts that form the generalization, enduring understanding or lesson learned, find most of the evidence in the text that reflects the concepts and the generalization. Deviation: 1931 it stopped raining in the Panhandle. It more than a (“dry farmers”) (In hadn’t rained few drops in the Panhandle for five straight years. The stock market collapsed. One day the wind started to blow, and every day it blew harder and harder.) Disorder: (When there enough rain, they were forced to sell their livestock and farm machinery wasn’t and borrow money from the bank. Cornstalks in the fields shriveled from the sizzling heat. Shoots of wheat dried up and fell to the ground. 1932 one thousand families a week in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas were losing their farms to the banks. The wind knocked open doors, shattered windows, and leveled barns.)
Evidence: (They had no irrigation system, no reservoirs to store water, no canals to bring water to their farms. If there wasn’t enough rain, they were forced to sell their livestock and farm machinery and borrow money.) Claim: (The farmers were caught in an impossible situation.) Evidence: (Farmers were already suffering from the effects of the Great Depression, which had started in 1929 when the stock market collapsed. Depression caused the price of wheat and corn to fall so low that it made growing these crops unprofitable. Many couldn’t make payments to the banks that held title to their land. In 1932, one thousand families a week in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas were losing their farms to the banks.) Claim: (Then when it seemed that things couldn’t get any worse, they did.) Evidence: (The year was 1936. It hadn’t rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle for five straight years. One day the wind started to blow, and every day it blew harder and harder. The wind knocked open doors, shattered windows, and leveled barns.) What does the text mean? Generative Reading Concepts – Generalization – Application Concepts – deviation and disorder Generalization – Deviation creates disorder. Given the concepts that form the generalization, enduring understanding or lesson learned, find most of the evidence in the text that reflects the concepts and the generalization. Deviation: (“dry farmers”) (In 1931 it stopped raining in the Panhandle. It hadn’t rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle for five straight years. The stock market collapsed. One day the wind started to blow, and every day it blew harder and harder.) Disorder: (When there wasn’t enough rain, they were forced to sell their livestock and farm machinery and borrow money from the bank. Cornstalks in the fields shriveled from the sizzling heat. Shoots of wheat dried up and fell to the ground. 1932 one thousand families a week in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas were losing their farms to the banks. The wind knocked open doors, shattered windows, and leveled barns.)
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