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 24:


 ·  Explain the landowners' plot to destroy the Weedpatch camp.

 ·  What is the idea behind the "turkey shoot" proposed at the end of the chapter?

Related web sites:

More recordings from The Library of Congress collection "Voices of the Dustbowl." Both of these are from the Arvin FSA Camp, August 1941:
  • The Camp Council listen to an MP3 filediscusses speed limits, and plans for a Saturday Night Dance.
  • An unknown man provides music for dancing with an a cappela listen to an MP3 filerendition of "Old Dan Tucker."
Saturday night dance
Rothstein, Arthur. “Saturday night dance. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California.” 1940. America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945