Road Trip Information

1. Please have one partner fill out this form.

2. Library Guide

3. Project guidelines

4. Project rubric

5. Random Hardships

tGOW: 1/2 18 & 19

1. Quick Reading Quiz (5 mins)

2. Project Prep (40 mins)

Your first post: You each have one suitcase (think carry-on legal as the car is packed with so much other stuff). This is all you get to move from your home. Everything else will be left behind. What possessions will you put in it and why? Remember, this suitcase includes clothes and belongings.

I would suggest writing your reflection in a google doc first and then pasting it into a blog post. Take a photo of your belongings, you bag, the room you're leaving behind. Get creative and think about how this post will set the tone for the rest of the project.

You will complete this post for homework, so make sure this information is uploaded to your blog and ready to go before our next class begins. And, next class we'll be in the library seminar room.

3. Text Discussion (30 mins)

1. Plot review: what has happened?
2. How has the loss of Noah and Grandma affected the family? Have we seen any of the characters weaken from the loss? Strengthened?
3. In what way do the first glimpses of the Californian landscape fulfill the Joads' dream of the promised land?
4. Tone and language of first three pages of Chpt. 19. What is Steinbeck trying to illuminate about the struggle? About Okies? In what way does Steinbeck hint at the rising anger of the oppressed?

tGOW: 17- 1/2 18

Road Trip Work: Blog creation

Creating a blog

1. Pair up; each partner needs a laptop.
2. ONE PARTNER ONLY -- Go to www.blogger.com
3. Create a limited blogger profile (option on right)
4. Decide on your display name
5. Create a new blog (option on upper left)
6. Pick a blog title and blog address. If the blog address is available, great! If not, come up with a new name.
7. Select your template design (you can always change later)

Sharing permissions

Once the blog is created, the partner who created the blog needs to go to SETTINGS --> BASIC --> PERMISSIONS --> BLOG AUTHORS

1. Add your partner's email address.
2. Partner, accept invitation
3. Original creator of blog, change invited partner from AUTHOR to ADMIN
4. Start BLOGGING!


Blogger Basics

Class Discussion
1. Plot recap
2. Compare/contrast the start of chpt 17 to chpt 12.
3. Language of the paragraph -- "They crawled up the slopes ...." (201).
4. What effect does the second Cali story have on the family? Is their resistance to the story evidence of their strength or their ignorance? Is one better than the other?
5. Noah! What is up with that?
6. Ma's insight bottom of 209. What does she share? What does this reveal about her character?

tGOW: Chpt 16

Group work
Working in groups of 4+, come up with three distinct discussion questions. Three members of your group will need to sign into our socrative class (64674), and post the questions separately into the free response box. Once the questions are posted, the class will vote on which questions we'd like to address. Then we'll start talking.

Some guidelines for your questions
1. One of the questions must be focused on a close reading of a specific passage.
2. One of the questions must be related to a specific character.
3. Make the questions specific, clear, relevant to the reading, and open-ended (Yes/No questions don't do much to get people talking)

tGOW 14 & 15

A little music to get us going .... and some lyrics

Character Groups: check in. What have we learned about your character?

Discussion questions:

1. Chpt 14 repeats the following line:

"The Western land, nervous under the beginning change." (150)

"The Western States nervous under the beginning change." (151)

"The Western States are nervous under the beginning change." (152)

What are the literal differences between these lines? What impact do those differences have on the meanings of these lines? And why repeat this idea?

2. Chpt 15: What causes Mae's prejudice to fade?