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My grandmother has a word in her language for the smell of rain on dry earth. My English teacher says there’s a word for it in English too — petrichor — but nobody I know has ever said it out loud.
Grandma’s word, she tells me, also means "the moment you know you are home." When she says it, she closes her eyes.
I am trying to write a poem about her for class. Every English word I choose is the wrong size: too small, or shaped like something else. Love is too big and too worn out. Home is a building. Rain is just weather.
In the end I turn in a poem that is only one line long. It is her word, untranslated, followed by my name. My teacher writes in the margin: "I don’t know what this means. I think that’s the point."
In the 1930s, a series of severe droughts struck the southern Great Plains. Winds lifted the dry topsoil into enormous "black blizzards" that blotted out the sun and buried farms in dust.
The disaster was not caused by drought alone. In the decades before, farmers had plowed up millions of acres of native grassland whose deep roots had held the soil in place. When the rains failed, nothing anchored the earth.
Hundreds of thousands of people left the region, many heading west to California in search of work, a migration later portrayed in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.
In response, the federal government created the Soil Conservation Service in 1935, teaching farmers techniques such as contour plowing, crop rotation and planting rows of trees as windbreaks.
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Worksheets › Grade 10 English › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Free Grade 10 English worksheet (Common Core RL.9-10.9): compare "Translation" with "The Dust Bowl" and analyze how each develops its ideas. Skill: Compare texts and evaluate arguments. Level: Grade 10 — also suits Year 11 (UK).
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