Instructional Video3:06
PBS

American Masters: The American Dream in the Grapes of Wrath

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
For many farmers displaced by the Great Depression and the droughts of the 1930s, California represented the American Dream: a place to find work, to establish a new life, and to provide for their families. The reality they found, as...
Instructional Video5:44
PBS

Documenting the Dust Bowl

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or...
Instructional Video1:35
National Woman's History Museum

Women's History Minute: Dorothea Lange

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Teach young scholars how to, in the words of Dorothea Lange, see life without a camera by looking at her life through the lens of a short video. Viewers are introduced to Lange's life, her work, and some of her famous photographs.
Instructional Video3:19
Biography

John Steinbeck- Mini Biography

For Teachers 7th - 12th
John Steinbeck, called the voice of working-class Americans, is the subject of this mini-biography that includes interviews and images to provide an overview of his life and works.
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PBS

Setting in To Kill a Mockingbird

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Can you understand more about how a person acts by learning about how that person lives? An interactive resource explores the setting of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird with several slides discussing the location, social...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Masters: The American Dream in the Grapes of Wrath

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video [3:06] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream, see the quest for the American dream as depicted in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." Follow the Joad family as they search for work and...
Instructional Video
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Grapes of Wrath

For Students 9th - 10th
A short video [2:52] about where the title for John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath came from.
Instructional Video
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Grapes of Wrath (Las Uvas De La Ira)

For Students 9th - 10th
Delve into the classic Grapes of Wrath in this Shmoop video. [3:27]

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