About This Lesson
Use of Dorothea Lange photographs for background knowledge.
Lessons, essential questions, agendas for teaching the novel.
Link and lyrics for the song "Ain't Got No Home" by Woody Guthrie.
Reference to "The Harvest Gypsies," a nonfiction excerpt written by John Steinbeck about the American migrant worker. (use of Cornell Notes) (text attached)
Ranch as community assignment.
Final writing assignment tied to essential questions.