The Grapes of Wrath

Chapters 1 - 10

Tenant Farming- Oklahoma in the '30s

• • American Memory: The Library of Congress

    • • America from The Great Depression to WWII

      • Tenant Farmer, Oklahoma

Farming

• • Farming in the 1930s

  • Farming life before the tractor

Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources

• • Novel Excerpt: Chapter 3, The Grapes of Wrath - "The Turtle" - p.766

Chapters 11 - 20

Traveling Route 66

• • What’s a babbitt?

  • What’s a con-rod?

  • Time Magazine: "A Brief History of Route 66" by Christina Crapanzano

Explore the Health and Poverty Connection

• • What’s “black tongue”?

  • What’s pellagra?

Chapters 21 - 30

Migrant Workers- California in the '30s

• • Weedpatch Camp

  • American Memory: The Library of Congress

    • • Drought Refugees in CA

      • Drought Refugees in California Migrant Camp

      • Migrant Mother