Dust+Bowl+Literature

Dust Bowl Literature
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//Of Mice and Men// - Online Novella Text (.pdf)
Teaching Ideas: [|Getting Started with //Of Mice and Men//] http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/

Article to use after chapter 1:
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Students 'interviewed' Steinbeck here Analysed text - introduction of Curley's wife - here Here's another you could use: Who killed Lennie Small? Hold a mini-film competition as a post-reading exercise to gauge grasp of themes, character, etc. @http://sitemaker.umich.edu/joshuafriendly/of_mice_and_men_unit_plan Website on friendship The Migrant Experience - Library of Congress
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Dust Bowl Images
http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html [|http://www.life.com/gallery/23118/image/2665346#index/0] [|Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943]

Teenage Hoboes from the Great Depression Video from PBS
=Independent Novel Options that mesh with the themes from //Of Mice and Men://= Crutcher,Chris.//Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes//. Outsiders Moby and Sarah have always supported each other, but when Moby makes the swimming team and begins to slim down, Sarah falls apartand is institutionalized, until Moby can help figure out what's wrong.

Hartinger,Brent. //The Last Chance Texaco.// Feisty Lucy Pitt faces new challenges-and finds acceptance-at a last chance group home for orphans and troubled teens.

Hesse,Karen. //Phoenix Rising.// After a radiation leak in a nuclear reactor, Nyle and her grandmother show compassion for Ezra and his mothe, who are outcasts in their community.

Holt, Kimberly. //My Louisiana Sky.// Tiger Ann is embarrassed by her mentally slow parents and dominated by her strong grandmother, but when Granny dies, Aunt Dorie Kay takes over, and things begin to change for Tiger Ann.

Martin,Ann M. //A Corner of the Universe//. As Hatte turns 12, her life in a small town takes an unexpected turn when she meets her mentally disabled uncle and a carnival comes to town.

Mikaelsen, Ben. //Petey.// Told in two parts, this bittersweet story is heart-wrenching and unforgettable. Born with cerebral palsy in 1920, Petey is diagnosed as an idiot and sent to spend his life in a mental institution, where few people see beyond his grunts and deformed body until 70 years later, when he is befriended by a teenager, Trevor Ladd. The brotherly bond that develops between Petey and retarded Calvin is brought to an abrupt end when the asylum is closed and both men are sent to different facilities.

Paterson, Katherine. //Jip: His Story//. In 1855-56 Vermont, young Jip, an abandoned orphan, befriends the town lunatic, who lives in a cage, and later learns that he himself is half black and is about to be sold as a slave.

Strasser, Todd. //Can't Get There from Here.// The painful stories of several homeless teenagers living (and dying) on the streets of New York City reveal their place in society and their search for some place to belong.