Free write: The Joad family shows ignorance to many modern conveniences (toilets, showers, etc) and ideas (unions). Reflect on a time when you were ignorant to either a modern convenience or product or idea. What did this ignorance teach you about yourself? Those around you? Who enlightened you? How could ignorance lead to struggles later on in life?
My example: After a water polo game a few years ago, our bus was late picking us up. I don't carry a cell phone with me, so I needed to borrow one of the student's phones to call the driver. A student handed me a phone (a brand new iPhone) on which I could call. There we no numbers, no buttons, no nothing. I pressed the screen a few times but still didn't recognize anything that looked like a touchpad, so I tossed the phone back to the student and asked for a phone with buttons and numbers. This moment still makes me laugh. I still don't carry a cell phone, but I do know how to work an iPhone and other touchscreen items. Who enlightened me? The students who endlessly mocked me for not knowing how to use the phone. As for struggles down the road, I think of my dad. He doesn't own a cell phone, and when he uses mine (a normal, blackberry style phone) he struggles. Of course, he has a iPad. Alas, I do think about the impact of technology or the lack of it in the lives of younger people. Will ignorance hurt people? Will an ver reliance on technology hurt people? There's got to be a happy medium.
My example: After a water polo game a few years ago, our bus was late picking us up. I don't carry a cell phone with me, so I needed to borrow one of the student's phones to call the driver. A student handed me a phone (a brand new iPhone) on which I could call. There we no numbers, no buttons, no nothing. I pressed the screen a few times but still didn't recognize anything that looked like a touchpad, so I tossed the phone back to the student and asked for a phone with buttons and numbers. This moment still makes me laugh. I still don't carry a cell phone, but I do know how to work an iPhone and other touchscreen items. Who enlightened me? The students who endlessly mocked me for not knowing how to use the phone. As for struggles down the road, I think of my dad. He doesn't own a cell phone, and when he uses mine (a normal, blackberry style phone) he struggles. Of course, he has a iPad. Alas, I do think about the impact of technology or the lack of it in the lives of younger people. Will ignorance hurt people? Will an ver reliance on technology hurt people? There's got to be a happy medium.
Discussion
1. What do the events in Chpt 22 say about religion, charity and hard work?
2. Who and what are the "reds"?
3. What role does order, dignity, and pleasure play in the lives of the migrants? Why are the locals trying to strip these things from the migrants' lives?
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