Grapes...
Monday, April 30, 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
8 comments:
things he saw...
and things he wanted others to see
and things i saw...
I'm not sure. I'm sure we would know for sure if we googled his name and autobiography tho. I'm betting he just saw what was goin on and that it didn't actually happen to him.
I have a feeling that he saw these things, because he described them to vividly.
I definitely get the feeling that he saw them...and bella, I agree. These are things he definitely wanted to bring to the attention of others. Why else would he write about them? (don't tell me it was for entertainment purposes. I really find nothing 'entertaining' about it, so that point seems rather moot to me.)
During the Great Depression, Steinbeck was a student. He was given a job "counting dogs" to help him make it through school (one of FDR's programs). I think he was able to see a significant amount of devastation, which led him to write this book. I also know he exaggerated a lot, but I still it he saw a lot of bad things.
THink about the turtle chapters, thebroad brushstrokes of humanity--yse, you are right--Steinbeck DID want to show teh devastation--and if teh generalities were not enough to seel his point, then you have areal family with characters with you whom you sympathize--or not--but he gives the suffering names and personalities--and what is the bigger picture he wants us to see? Remember the prompt about the land?
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