Lesson Plan

Loc: The Grapes of Wrath: Voices From the Great Depression

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By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, young scholars create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing evidence of the colloquial speech used by the migrants and the issues affecting their lives. Using Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941 and Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, students select photographs and use the sound recordings of voices of the migrant workers to create captions, letters, and/or songs based on these primary sources. This activity can be used in connection with a unit on the Great Depression, and specifically on The Grapes of Wrath.

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