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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:
Truthfully, I think we were all reading WAY too far into it. But, that's what analyzing books is for, right?
well...if we think back to what Frank McCormick said, he was not too fond of ripping apart books. However, this is English class, and we have too. I do not think we went too far into it because we did not lose what was going on in the story, if that makes any sense at all.
In a way, both...some was necessary, other stuff just confused me
Hmmm...I'd have to go will 'irrelevant nonsense' for 200, Alex.
I think some of his symbolism was interesting and almost helpful, but then other parts of it were just not needed, and even made parts of it made the story confusing.
it really bothers me when ppl call a great literary classic "irrelevant nonsense." just b/c we don't really understand it, or we get confused, doesn't mean we know what the heck we're talking about. maybe we're just too stupid to get it...
even if we don't get the whole picture with the symbols, thinking about what they could mean is pretty fun. There was this one guy who found the journey to zen enlightenment through the wizard of oz! so we get to do the same thing
I think that a lot of us found the symbolism irrelevant becuase we become frusterated with trying to figure it all out, when the events going on in the book have nothing to do with our current lives.But it is though people analyzing of books that life lessons are learned with out having to actually go though the hard ships are selves. ok that really doesn't make sense but i think you get my point.
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