Transcript The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
Introduction to the Novel
September 30, 2014
• Today:
• In two separate stacks
– Turn in the reflection WITHOUT the article.
- Turn in the journals.
• Quiz over chapters 1-6
• Complete Reading CBA
• Complete the writing section of the CBA
9/29/14
• Welcome to the first day of a new six weeks.
• Staple your journals for chapters 1-6 and turn
them in to the box.
• Staple your response to the article “Is the
World Going Nuts”
• Today: CBA
• Quiz over Chapters 1-6 on Tuesday!!!!
October 1, 2014
• CBA ESSAY
• COMPLETE YOUR PLANNING ON THE PROMPT
PAGE. WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED, STAPLE THE
PROMPT BEHIND ESSAY.
• USE THE REMAINDER OF CLASS TO WORK ON
YOUR JOURNALS
• BRING THE GRAPES OF WRATH
EVERYDAY!
Warm-up: Read the first and last
paragraph from Chapter 1
• Discuss with a partner how the author uses
the resources of language, such a point of
view, selection of detail, and tone, to convey
the ravages of the Dust Bowl
Introduction
• Written during the Great Depression
• Everywhere people lost their savings,
homes, and means of earning a living.
• Especially hard hit were the farming areas
of the Midwest.
• Poor farming practices had depleted the
soil, and it became less capable of
supporting the individual families who
farmed their small sections of it.
• Agriculture changed
drastically because
markets and prices for
crops declined.
• Small farms were
consolidated into larger,
and more profitable
units.
• Tractors, other machines,
and day laborers
replaced mules and
family labor.
• Independent farm life,
which had developed the
area and dominated it
during the 1800s,
dwindled.
• In the mid-1930s there were
severe droughts and erosion
of the dry soil by strong
winds.
• This created a “Dust Bowl” in
the states of Oklahoma,
Texas, Kansas, and Colorado.
• The small farmers, now
tenants and sharecroppers,
were uprooted from the
homes and farms which had
belonged to their families for
many years.
• By the tens of thousands these
victims of depression, drought,
and dust headed west to seek a
better life in the fertile fields of
California.
• They found themselves as much
victims there.
• Work was scarce, wages were low,
and they were resented, resisted,
and repressed by the residents.
• Their attempts to better their lives
were branded as Communism, a
system much disliked and feared
by many Americans of the time.
• Reaction to The Grapes
of Wrath was immediate,
and ran to extremes of
praise and condemnation.
• The novel strongly
exposed social injustice
and called for social
redress; but many people
denounced it as
Communist propaganda.
• People in California and
Oklahoma charged it was full of
exaggerated lies about the
conditions and treatment of the
migrants in their respective
states.
• A Congressman from Oklahoma
denounced the book, on behalf
of the people of his state, on the
floor of the House of
Representatives as “a dirty,
lying, filthy manuscript-a lie, a
damnable lie, a black, infernal
creation of a twisted, distorted
mind.”
• Copies of the book were
symbolically burned in a
town in Illinois by order of
the Library Board.
• Ironically, the waiting list for
the book at this library was
longer than for any other
book in history.
• The burning order came in
the same week the book had
its largest sales in seven
months.
• The general public
embraced The Grapes of
Wrath.
• It became a best-seller
shortly after publication and
has been in print and widely
read continuously since that
time.
• The story was also made
into a successful major
motion picture starring
Henry Fonda.
• A crowning accolade for the
novel was the award of the
1940 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction to Steinbeck.
Notes Activity
You suddenly have to leave your house or apartment. You must
leave your belongings behind, and, aside from a few clothes, you
can take only four of your possessions. What would you take? In an
email to a friend, identify these possessions. Then explain what
those items mean to you and why you chose as you did. Include
your feelings about the items you had to leave behind and any
anger, frustration or sadness you felt.
Vocab
Look up and write a sentence using each word. Sentence must relate to The
Grapes of Wrath
• Prodigal
• Dissipate
• Truculent
Day 8
Conversational: of or relating to a conversation; casual and informal; the way
two friends would talk in a private conversation.
Reflective: Given to contemplation; relating to or characterized by deep
thought; basically, to be reflective is to be thoughtful, to think of your own
actions and those of others.
Cynical: distrustful of human nature and motives; to believe that everyone is
only looking out for him or herself. To believe the worst in people.
You know, Bob isn’t really a bad guy. Sure he is something of a braggart, quick
to embellish his own accomplishments, but it’s a kind of desperate
embellishment, an attempt to mask his enormous insecurity. Besides, he’s a
good father and a generous soul, someone who will do anything for his friends,
from floating a loan to fixing a fence. Of course, one might have to endure his
explanation of international banking or the impact of fencing on the cattle
industry, but all in all, his heart is in the right place. (You could probably go one
of two ways on this one, but I think one tone predominates)
AP Language Analysis
Analyze the article for the following:
1. SOAPS
2. Rhetorical Strategies
a. Appeals (ethos, logos, pathos)
b. Style (diction, syntax, details, imagery, tone, etc.)
3. Why did the author choose these strategies for the particular audience, occasion, and/or purpose?
a. This is the analysis part! Without this, you are merely summarizing the text.
b. Think about these questions:
i. HOW do the rhetorical strategies help the author achieve his/her purpose?
ii. WHY does the author chose those strategies for that particular audience and for
that particular occasion?
Make a paragraph connecting all the above:
Example: Novelist, Amy Tan, in her narrative essay, “Fish Cheeks,” recounts an embarrassing Christmas Eve
dinner when she was 14 years old. Tan’s purpose is to convey the idea that, at fourteen, she wasn’t able to
recognize the love her mother had for her or the sacrifices she made. She adopts a sentimental tone in order to
appeal to similar feelings and experiences in her adult readers.
October 3, 2014
• Day 9
• Resigned: having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do
anything about
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• Callous: showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others; to
be unconcerned with other’s feelings.
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• Remorseful: filled with deep regret; to be very, very sorry.
• Sentence(s) Identify the two separate tones, one for each sentence.
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• Well, Son, you may not have made the team but I’m really proud of your
effort.
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• Son, in the big scheme of things, no one really cares who made the Deer
Park Junior High basketball team, especially not the B Team.
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