1. A story of The Great Depression
The Grapes of Wrath
A story of The Great Depression

2. Quick Write Write down 3 things you know about the Great Depression
Causes
Effects

3. The Great Depression Causes 1920’s economy not in balance Debt
Speculation on the rise
Overproduction slows industrial growth
Stock market crash-- October 1929

4. The Dust Bowl “Plant more wheat! Wheat will win the war!”
4 million acres of grassland turned into wheat
New technology--tractors
Wheat prices fell in early 1920’s

5. The Dust Bowl Severe drought No grasses to protect topsoil
Included eastern Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas
“Black blizzards”
60% of Dust Bowl families lost their farms
Thousands of families moved west
No relief for these families until WWII

6. The Dust Bowl

7. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Grew up in Central California
Went to Oklahoma and rode with Dust Bowl migrants to California

8. The Grapes of Wrath Lived with migrants in Hoovervilles
Pleaded for a more tolerant help for migrants
Considered a novel of protest/social document

9. The Grapes of Wrath
The story of the Joad family moving from Oklahoma to California
Lots of extra material not included in family struggle
Intercalary chapters
general picture of the society
Background of the Dust Bowl, about Route 66, selling property, etc.
Support for the narrative; historical information

10. Depression Pictures Take a look at the picture
Write for one minute in poem style about
Sights
Sounds
Tastes
Feelings
Mood, etc
When the minute is up, fold the paper over so only the last line is showing; pass to your right