July and August 1935 Out of the Dust

Which phrase best represents July and August 1935?

• There is no place like home

• The grass is not always greener on the other side.

• Don't be too busy to show you care

• In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right.

Which word best describes Billie Jo when she makes the decision to return home?

• resigned

• solemn

• accepting

• confused

For Billie Jo to be happy with her decision to return home, she tells her father he must make some changes. List two of them.

How does Billie Jo's trip on the train change her feelings about home?

Sequence the following events in order fro July and August 1935

• Billie Jo rides the train with a dirty

  stranger who takes her biscuits.

• Billie Jo hops on a train going West.

• After Billie Jo awakens from the dream,

  she decides she is not going to sit around and

  watch her father die from cancer.

• Billie Jo has a dream that playing the

  piano is a peach and comfort that her ma left to

  her.

• Billie Jo sees a girl she recognizes as the

  train goes by a migrant camp.

Read the passage from "Homeward Bound"

"Getting away, it wasn't any better. Lonelier than the wind. Emptier than the sky. More silent than the dust, piled in drifts between me and my father.

The type of figurative language being use is____________.

Write an example of a simile below.

1. 1. Read the last lines of "Gone West" below.

"I have seen the camps of dust-bowl migrants along the tracks. There was one girl. I saw her through the slat in the boxcar. She stared up at the passing train. She stood by the tracks watching, and I knew her."

1. 2. Answer the question: Even though the author doesn't say who the girl is, you can infer that the girl is a migrant.

Does she have the life Billie Jo thought she would? Explain using a quote from the text.