Grapes...
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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Grapes...
This your forum for discussion. Although I will toss in questions, I will expect you to be the main contributors to the blog. You are expected to post and comment at least twice (1x each) every time we are in the lab as a class. Naturally, you are required to keep comments germane to the novel and to treat your classmates' opinions with respect. Have fun.
Grapes...
Grapevines
- Rage-The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Save this link--it will be part of a writing prom
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Comic - Steinback stuck on the Title Page
- Migrant Labor Camp Photographs
- Big Rock
- "Dusty Old Dust"
- Guthrie lyrics
- Dust Bowl Refugee
- Dust Bowl Era Footage
- Songs to Lighten the Mood
- Blowing Down The Dusty Old Road
- Al Capone's Photo Gallery
- children + depression = sadness!
- Kelsey's Photos
- Vanessa's link
- Running from the Dust
- Pictures From the Dust Bowl Era by Dorthea Lange
- Helpful Guide to Book
- Dorothea Lange pictures
- A Depression Art Gallery
- Dust Bowl Slide Show o.O
- Depression Photo Essay
- A site about Woody Guthrie
- Dust Storm Disaster Lyrics
- Dust Can't Kill Me
- Dust Bowl Migration
- #4
- Everything you need to know and more
- #2
- Excerpts from "The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression"
- dustbowl pics
- "Tom Joad" by Woody Guthrie
- Pictures From the Dust Bowl Taken by Dorthea Lange
- Actual Dust Storm Footage From The Dustbowl Era
Assignments and Reading
- Done by Friday
- Chapter 28 by May 2
- Final Projects due May 21
- Gaia or Gaea. Look them up. Think about it.
- Through chapter 25 by April 30
- Through 22 by Friday, April 27
- While you are on the computer today, look up myth of Antaeus.
- Through 21 by April 25
- Through 19 by April 23
- Add a link
- Through chapter 13 by Monday, April 17
- Chapters 6-8 for April 9
10 comments:
Yeah I noticed that.
I thought it was pretty interesting because Steinback is telling the story of Tom Joad and of the croppers but they are not combined... yet.
I think it is very effective.
I like all of the effort Steinbeck puts in to describing all of the small details. Even though he takes large amounts of the book to describe very small details, it gives you a good sense of the feeling of the book and the setting Steinbeck's is giving the book.
I noticed, and thought it was boring.
He seems to like to talk about rape and sex a lot. Is that absolutely necessary??
Yeah I began noticing that in chapter two...he described the HUGE truck and the exhaust. The clothing...every little detail about the yellow shoe....blah blah blah...it gets repetitive and annoying at times but like christof said it is nice because it does give you a good sense of the scene and the life style pf the people in the book.
yea, i think its cool that, like bella said, he is sort of telling two different stories that will soon combine into one. i don't know that i liked the whole turtle chapter, or all the painstaking details...but i think overall, it will be effective.
I think it was kinda cool that the guy that ran over the turtle seems to be the guy that picked up Joad.
Or maybe it just seems like it.
I also noticed that Steinback is very obsessed about machines... why is that?
I agree with fool killer. I was bored out of my skull.
Repetitiveness, in my opinion, is awfully dry. And THAT MUCH description sort of makes me want to kill myself.
I'm just sayin'.
So Steinback is reminding me of Charles Dickens with vivid descriptions up the kazoo. Its interesting because it makes you feel like you are there, in the middle of the dust bowl. I felt like chapter five was saying the same thing over and over and over though.
Yes, I noticed the description. I think it's extremely effective, and the pathos is doing an incredible job of setting the stage. This story is supposed to be about a family of immigrants who are forced from their lands. It only makes sense that pathos would be used. I like Steinbeck's style.
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