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- Issues, we've all got them: Language arts/visual arts integration
- Students will learn how to deal positively with social issues important in their lives through personal investigation of social issues addressed in literature and art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and English Language Development)
- By Runell Carpenter.
- Eroded land, eroded lives: Agriculture and The Grapes of Wrath (lesson 1 of 10)
- This description is of only the first lesson in the unit, to be taught before students read the novel; thus, its primary purpose is to put this novel in historical context. Toward that end, students will learn about the (unintentional) abuse of soil that allowed the Dust Bowl to be so devastating and extensive. They will also see photographs by Dorothea Lange and others depicting the wasted land and subsequent wasted dreams of thousands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Annie Henry.
Resources on the web
- The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies
- This is a comprehensive resource for information about John Steinbeck, his life and works. It is text heavy and is mostly comprised of lists. A few still images illustrate particular features of the content and there is one slide show that features a series... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: San Jose State University
- Weedpatch Camp
- Information on Arvin Federal Government Camp, the migrant camp on which John Steinbeck based his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, can be found on this site. There are images of the camp and personal reminiscences of those who lived through that... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Dust Bowl Historical Foundation
- North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective
- This website contains information about drought and focuses on North America. How drought is defined, why it causes concern, the history of 20th Century drought, and how paleoclimatology is related to drought are explored in this site. Discover how nature... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
