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Dust Bowl
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "Grapes of Wrath" Banned in Kern County 
 Brief essay on the August 22, 1939, decision of the Kern County (California) Board of Supervisors to ban this Steinbeck novel in the county's public schools and libraries. The article first appeared in "Californian Historian," June 1994. http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/banned.html Topics: Agriculture, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Librarianship, Literature & Books, Social Issues Last updated Dec 18, 2008 "The Grapes of Wrath": Present at the Creation Looks Back on John Steinbeck's Epic
Background information on the Steinbeck novel and an audio file on "the story behind the creation of one of America's literary landmarks" for the NPR program Morning Edition. Features an audio file of Woody Guthrie's 1940 song "Tom Joad" and a video clip of the "I'll Be There" scene from the 1940 film based on the novel. From National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/grapesofwrath/ Topics: Agriculture Last updated Mar 2, 2008 1930's Dust Bowl
A brief description of the Dust Bowl in the Oklahoma Panhandle community of Boise City, Cimarron County, with pictures of "Black Sunday April 14, 1935. The dust storm that turned day into night." Excerpted from The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression by Paul Bonnifield. On the website of the Cimarron Heritage Center in Boise City, Oklahoma. http://www.ccccok.org/museum/dustbowl.html Topics: Agriculture, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Weather Last updated Aug 20, 2009 Book-a-Minute Classics: The Grapes of Wrath
A humorous synopsis of Steinbeck's classic novel. http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/steinbeck.grapes.shtml Topics: Agriculture, Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Creating Dramatic Monologues from "The Grapes of Wrath"
Lesson plan for a project to help students understand "the universal nature of Steinbeck's characters' struggles and some of the complex forces affecting their lives." Designed for use in 9-12 grade classrooms, it has project tips, discussion questions, and additional resource suggestions including Web links. From DiscoverySchool.com. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/grapesofwrath/ Topics: Agriculture, K-12 Education, Lesson Plans Last updated Dec 11, 2007 Death in the Dust
"Three years before publication [in 1939] of his masterpiece 'The Grapes Of Wrath,' John Steinbeck visited squatters' camps in California. To mark the centenary of his birth, we print [in 2002] this account ... of the misery that he witnessed." From the Guardian Unlimited, the website of the British newspaper The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/feb/02/johnsteinbeck.socialsciences Topics: Last updated Aug 7, 2008 Discussion Guides: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl
Questions to ponder while reading three of John Steinbeck's novels. From The Great Books Foundation. http://www.greatbooks.org/library/guides/the-grapes-of-wrath-of-mice-and-men-and-the-pearl.html Topics: Agriculture, People Last updated Oct 12, 2009 The Dust Bowl
An exhibit "featuring Documentary Photographs from the Farm Security Administration file and Companion Photographs taken in the late 1970s by Bill Ganzel," with "texts adapted from oral history interviews with Dust Bowl Survivors." Includes learning activities for students and lesson guides for teachers. http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/ Topics: Agriculture, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, Weather Last updated Dec 19, 2008 Dust Bowl Days
Lesson plans for teaching students about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression "through photographs, songs and interviews with people who lived through the Dust Bowl." Designed for grades three to six. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=300 Topics: Agriculture, History, Lesson Plans, Photograph Collections: History, United States History, Weather Last updated Dec 19, 2008 Dust Bowl Migration Digital Archives
This digital collection features "a series of fifty-seven oral history interviews that ... focus on residents who migrated to the San Joaquin Valley from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas between 1924 and 1939." Full interview transcripts are accompanied by a Dust Bowl migration bibliography and a selection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) photos. From California State University Bakersfield Library; oral histories developed by the California Odyssey Project. http://www.csub.edu/library/special/dustbowl/dustbowl.shtml Topics: Last updated Apr 13, 2009 The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter by chapter plot summary, a list of the major characters, maps of the Joad family's journey, and links to background material for John Steinbeck's epic novel of the 1930s migration of farmers from Oklahoma to California. Contains a few dead links. Created and maintained by a Steinbeck enthusiast. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html Topics: Agriculture Last updated Oct 30, 2007 The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
This review of the movie adaptation, directed by John Ford, of the John Steinbeck epic novel includes a plot summary, samples of dialog, comments on the background music, and a cast list. http://www.filmsite.org/grap.html Topics: Agriculture, Film, Movies, & Video Last updated Aug 23, 2005 The Grapes of Wrath Study Guide & Essays
A summary and analysis of the John Steinbeck novel, featuring a list of characters, essays, and information about the author. From GradeSaver ClassicNote, a collection of literature study guides "written exclusively by Harvard [University] students." http://www.gradesaver.com/the-grapes-of-wrath/ Topics: Agriculture, Literature & Books Last updated Mar 11, 2009 The Grapes of Wrath: Film, Film Vs. Book, Route 66
This site has a brief discussion of John Ford's film of John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," a comparison of the film to the book, and a short history of Route 66. From a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/Frontpage.htm Topics: Agriculture, Automobiles, Film, Movies, & Video, U.S. History By Place Last updated Feb 25, 2004 Learning Guide to: The Grapes of Wrath
This guide from Teach with Movies gives some background information on the historical context of the 1940 movie based on the John Steinbeck novel. It has a list of discussion questions and suggestions for other readings and movies on the depression era. Designed for use with ages twelve and above. http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/grapes-of-wrath.html Topics: Agriculture, Film, Movies, & Video Last updated Apr 2, 2002 Migrant Workers Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Photographs documenting conditions in migrant labor camps in California's Imperial Valley, taken in February and March of 1937 under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html Topics: Agriculture, Labor, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated Dec 19, 2008 New Deal Network
A research and teaching resource devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. At the core of the NDN is a database of more than 20,000 photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents). Features an annotated list of online resources for teachers and students. Searchable. Note: the site is being maintained, but "additional content is no longer being developed at this time." http://newdeal.feri.org/ Topics: Agriculture, Correspondence, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Dec 19, 2008 North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective
Information "to explain how paleoclimatic data can provide information about past droughts and about the natural variability of drought over timescales of decades to millennia." Includes maps that display droughts of the 20th century (including the Dust Bowl); data for the past 500 and 2,000 years; and even earlier information derived from pollen, charcoal, and lake level changes. From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought/ Topics: Agriculture, Regions of the World, Weather Last updated Mar 16, 2005 PinkMonkey Literature Notes on The Grapes of Wrath
Features information on the setting, characters, plot, themes, mood, background, and literary/historical aspects of the John Steinbeck novel. Also includes chapter summaries with notes, study questions, and bibliography. From PinkMonkey.com . http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGrapes01.asp Topics: Agriculture, Literature & Books Last updated Apr 3, 2002 Surviving the Dust Bowl
This site examines the combination of farming techniques, economic conditions, and an eight-year drought (1931-1939) in the southern plains of the United States that led to giving the area the name "The Dust Bowl." The people involved, the results of the drought, and the various government remedies to the situation are also covered. A companion to the PBS program of the same name, a part of The American Experience series. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/dustbowl/ Topics: Agriculture, Weather Last updated Nov 1, 2009 Visions In the Dust: A Child's Perspective of the Dust Bowl
This classroom guide will help students understand "Dust Bowl history through the eyes of a child. Using Karen Hesse's Newbery Award-winning Out of the Dust as an introduction...students have the opportunity to identify with the personal experiences of youth in the 1930s. In addition, students examine primary source materials of the period to correlate the fictional text with actual visual, auditory, and manuscript accounts as found in the [Library of Congress] American Memory collections." http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/dust/intro.html Topics: Agriculture, History, United States History, Weather Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-41
A "collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera. ... [Includes] dance tunes, cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance and play party calls, camp council meetings, camp court proceedings, conversations, storytelling sessions, and personal experience narratives" of Dust Bowl refugees. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/ Topics: Agriculture, Emigration & Immigration, Internet, Labor, Music, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Woody Guthrie
This site has a biography of the singer/songwriter and explores his roles as Dust Bowl balladeer, American folk hero, and postmodern hero. http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s/RADIO/woody/introframe.html Topics: Agriculture, Musical Genres, Musicians Last updated Feb 25, 2004 Woody Guthrie and The Grapes of Wrath
A study plan to help students explore common themes between Guthrie's music and Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, and to appreciate the music and the novel as "works of art and historical documents." Aimed at teachers to use with students in grades 10-12, this is part of a larger website of lesson plans from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. http://www.rockhall.com/teacher/sti-lesson-9/ Topics: Agriculture, Lesson Plans Last updated Apr 16, 2007 Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
Theis foundation holds the archives of this prolific songwriter, singer, and folklorist of American history. Best known for "This Land is Your Land" and his Dust Bowl Ballads, Guthrie also wrote songs for children, unions, and his politically radical group the Almanac Singers. This site has a biography, many digitizations of his original notebooks, a discography, and other publications. http://www.woodyguthrie.org/ Topics: Agriculture, Music, Musical Genres, Musicians Last updated May 26, 2002 |
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