tGOW: 7-9

Character groups: What have we learned? Who have we met? Share away in groups and then report back to the larger group. (Ma, Pa, Tom & Jim Casy) Use iPads, create a shared google doc, and then flash on the screen.

Discussion questions:

1. What is Tom's homecoming like? What does it reveal about the Joad family structure?

2. Three family members have asked Tom Joad if he busted out of jail. What does this reveal about the family? About Tom?

3. At the close of the chapter 9, the family (not the Joads) burns its belongings. Why?
4. What's the significance of the line:"How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?" (88).

5. What animals have we encountered in these chapters? What do they signify/connote?