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 19:


 ·  A metaphor used early in this chapter posits the California landowners as Romans. Using your historical knowledge, what are the implications of this metaphor?

·  Why is a fallow field a sin?

·  What are the "three cries of history"? Where else, historically, do you see these insights ring true?

·  Why is it notable that the owners are the ones with "access" to history? What are the implications here?

Related Web Sites:

HOOVERVILLES - From MSN's Encarta multimedia. Photos as well as sound and film clips about the events of the Depression and the 1930's "Hoovervilles."

Hoovervilles - Brief article with links from U-S-History.com

Jimson Weed - "What is Jimson Weed?" from Erlanger's E-Health.com



California fields
America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945