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How Teachers Can Make the Most of “The Dust Bowl”
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How Teachers Can Make the Most of “The Dust Bowl”
The Dust Bowl: Series Overview | Educational Resources | Additional Resources on the Website | About the Author | This lesson offers students a close consideration of the opening chapter of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and serves as the impetus for looking at the purpose of the inner chapters or “generals” as the author referred to them. John Steinbeck’s use of nonfiction sources in writing The Grapes of Wrath is examined to illustrate how they affect the reader’s perception of a novel. Walt Whitman sought to create a new and distinctly American form of poetry. His efforts had a profound influence on subsequent generations of American poets. In this lesson, students will explore the historical context of Whitman's concept of "democratic poetry" by reading his poetry and prose and by examining daguerreotypes taken circa 1850. Next, students will compare the poetic concepts and techniques behind Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," and will have an opportunity to apply similar concepts and techniques in creating a poem from their own experience. In this lesson, students will explore the role of the individual in the modern world by closely reading and analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Reading Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess,” students will explore the use of dramatic monologue as a poetic form, where the speaker often reveals far more than intended.John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters
Created October 12, 2012
Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"
Created September 17, 2012
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Lesson 3: Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue
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