1. (optional Honors English assignment) Read pages 281-313 of The Grapes of Wrath Monday night and Tue/Wed and have a quiz Thur/Fri over that reading as well as a couple of questions from the movie. The entire novel is available at the following link:
The Grapes of Wrath
You may also have a copy of it at home and many copies are to be found in the library, as well as numerous other very worn out copies that we have in the English department.
You may want to do this reading over the weekend if you think that you will be too busy to get the reading done next week. In the past, students have done surprisingly poorly on this quiz {:^o
2. Grapes of Wrath vocabulary for quiz on Tue/Wed of next week
Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck
bemuse, truculent, perplexity, conjecture, cantakerous, asail, restive, exort
3. Finish the movie
Journal, in class: Write 3/4 page responding to one of the two Steinbeck quotes listed below. You will do this in groups of 3-4 and write 1 paper.
Steinbeck musings (not in the novel):
"I wonder how many people I've looked at in my life and never seen"--Steinbeck
"I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor membership in literature"--Steinbeck