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?