(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Humans/
American settlers and drought
exciting and joyful to uneasy and foreboding
Catherine Hattrup enjoying
a quiet afternoon at her grandmother’s house. Then
a “terrible black cloud” approaches.
explains the consequences of removing
prairie grasses
They stayed
They were hurt
landscape and environment of the Southern Plains
before and after white settlers arrived there
chronological
They faced financial problems
changing but thriving
Black Sunday
Catherine is an optimistic person
protected the soil and prevented it
from drying up and blowing away
Sequence of Events
They left the plains
By the late 1800s, much of the Southern Plains had been transformed.
Catherine Hattrup
By 1935, tens of thousands of people had abandoned their farms . . .
farmers on the plains were hit especially
hard by the Great Depression
By describing Catherine Hattrup’s experience and by
providing descriptive details of the storm
Problem and Solution
scorched and drought-ridden
Farmers learned how to farm in a way that was kinder to the Earth and protected the land.
just as the soil was being ruined by
the drought, the settlers’ dreams of a better life were
also being ruined