BonnieThe classroom smelled like...I don't even know.I walked into Human Odyssey a few minutes before the bell. The room was already half full with students scattered around the circle of desks. Some were on their phones, some were talking while some were staring at the board like it held the answers to questions they had not thought to ask.Ms. Rivera walked in carrying a stack of papers."Good morning," she said. "I hope you all brought your brains today because we are doing something that will make them hurt.""Today we are talking about the Dust Bowl," she said. "Does anyone know what that was?"A hand went up. A boy named Marcus. He was quiet most of the time but he knew his history."It was a period of severe dust storms in the 1930s," he said. "It affected the Great Plains and It caused a lot of people to lose their farms and move west.""Good," Ms. Rivera said. "That is the textbook answ
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