1. Hand in 20 quotes for points (10 points). Go to the following links to find the quotes.
2. "The Grapes of Wrath"--why did Steinbeck give the book this title?
Find more good quotes at these sites if you don't already have 20:
Three-fold cord
Quizlet quotes
Quotes superimposed on images--nice
Sparknotes Jim Casey and Tom Joad
Schmoop Jim Casey quotes
Cliffnotes on Jim Casey
There are countless quotes at this site: Goodreads, Grapes of Wrath
3.Extra credit to students who read the ending of the novel and take the Honors Class test.
Pages 281-313 on Monday and Tue/Wed and have a quiz 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
4. Dorothea Lange photos
5. In groups of four, answer one of the following two-part questions. Use at least four of the quotes that you have written down to support your assertions. Each questions has two parts. Answer the first part and then the second part. One paper, all four names. 25 minutes to write as much as you can. This is an in-class assignment, not homework.
Steinbeck musings (not in the novel):
OPTION1: "I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor membership in literature"--Steinbeck
- --What is wrong with mankind (as man is portrayed in the novel) and what will it take to perfect this world, according to Steinbeck?
OPTION 2: "I wonder how many people I've looked at in my life and never seen"--Steinbeck--
- Why don't we look at people? What does seeing a person properly entail?
Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck
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