THE GRAPES OF WRATH
What's New? For Teachers For Students Steinbeck and the book The Play
Study guide for a collaborative project
of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and
the University of Alabama at Birmingham
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DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 17:


 ·  In this chapter you see the communal aspects of life on the road developed to a fine art. Discuss the rights, laws, and punishments of roadside camp communities.

 ·  What is the function of music in the roadside communities?

Related web sites:

Authentic songs sung by migrants. Follow this link to hear dozens of MP3 files of migrant workers singing the folk songs they brought west to California in the late 1930s. All part of the Library of Congress' Voices of the Dustbowl collection.

This Land Is Your Land: Rural Music and the Depression - This site by the the University of Virginia, explores the legacy of such famous "Hillbilly" and "country and Western musical pioneers such as Woody Guthrie, The Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff and John Lomax in an informative site.
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America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945