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Lessons in Survival and Friendship: Exploring The Grapes of Wrath & Out of the Dust

Discover the theme of surviving and forming friendships in canonical text The Grapes of Wrath and young adult text Out of the Dust. Dive into essential questions such as friendship, hope, the American Dream, and more. Uncover the impact of technology, adulthood, and morality in troubled times through engaging lesson plans, assessments, and projects.

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Lessons in Survival and Friendship: Exploring The Grapes of Wrath & Out of the Dust

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  1. Unit Plan Presentation Kathryn Pitchford and Sabrina Watt Engl 3391, Spring 2011

  2. Canonical Text:The Grapes of Wrath

  3. Young Adult Text:Out of the Dust

  4. Why pair the two?

  5. Essential Questions • What is surviving? Living? • How are friendships formed and developed? How is friendship exemplified? • What does it mean to have hope? • What happens when technology replaces people? • What is the American Dream? • What does it mean to be an adult? A leader? • Are there times when negative actions are justifiable?

  6. Trials, Tribulations, and Trauma in a Troubling Time • Lesson Plans • #1- Leaving Misery for the “Promised Land” • #2- The Advertising Agency: Entrepreneurs or Heartless Wretches? • #3- The End of a Journey • Assessments • The Grapes of Wrath Final Exam • Essay- Politics in the West • Project- Journal Writing Assignment

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