Free write: There are the Okies and the native Californians. There are the migrants, those who were migrants (beaten down by the false promises and now returning to their land), and others. Society as the Joads know it is fractured and filled with us and thems, insiders and outsiders, the others.
Like the Joads, we all have felt on the inside and on the outside. Reflect on and write about a time when you were"the other", the outsider. Who put you there? How did it feel? In contrast, reflect on and write about a time when you "othered" some one. Why did you push someone to the outside? In reflection, how do you feel about your actions?
Discussion Questions:
1. What effect does the nightly camping have on the people heading for California? How does it give them strength and power? In what way does the night camp influence the identity of the migrant people?
2. What is the Joads' first view of California? What impressions of California do the father and son from the Panhandle provide?
20-30 minutes of in-class reading
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