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    The document is a photograph from 1936 taken by Dorothea Lange that came to symbolize the struggles of the Great Depression era. It depicts a "Migrant Mother" and her children. The photograph is used to have students empathize with what her experience may have been like - including that she was likely a migrant farmer displaced from the Dust Bowl looking to find work elsewhere with uncertainties around homelessness, hunger, and securing the safety of her children.

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    The document is a photograph from 1936 taken by Dorothea Lange that came to symbolize the struggles of the Great Depression era. It depicts a "Migrant Mother" and her children. The photograph is used to have students empathize with what her experience may have been like - including that she was likely a migrant farmer displaced from the Dust Bowl looking to find work elsewhere with uncertainties around homelessness, hunger, and securing the safety of her children.

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    America in the 1930s: The Great Depression

    This photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 and was known as ‘Migrant Mother’. It came to symbolise and typify the struggles of the
    Depression era for countless individuals in America.

    You will use the photograph as a stimulus for an empathy task about the impact of the Great Depression on people.

    Who is she? Where has she come from? What emotions is she feeling?
    Where is she going?

    What are her immediate priorities


    What are her longer-term fears and hopes? and fears?

    What would your emotions be?

    visit twinkl.com
    America in the 1930s: The Great Depression Answers

    Who is she? Where has she come from? What emotions is she feeling?
    Where is she going? Uncertainty
    Migrant farmer/farm worker displaced by Worry
    the Dust Bowl
    Determination
    Moving from affected states to look for
    work elsewhere

    What are her immediate priorities


    What are her longer-term fears and hopes? and fears?
    Fears – Homelessness, starvation, safety Priorities – finding food and work,
    of her children sheltering her children, finding
    Hopes – finding work, shelter, security transport to next stop
    for her family Fears – hunger, unsafe conditions

    What would your emotions be?

    Students’ own responses.

    visit twinkl.com

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