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Activity Overview


John Steinbeck is well-known for painting detailed pictures with his words. Choose some selections from the novel where Steinbeck uses detailed descriptions of the landscape. Choose six lines from the description that are especially vivid. Use Storyboard That’s Photos for Class search function to find pictures that highlight the images captured in these lines. Then, create a storyboard for your selection!


Cell 1

“The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the gray country.”


Cell 2

“The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects.”


Cell 3

“And the crops changed. Fruit trees took the place of grain fields, and vegetables to feed the world spread out on the bottoms: lettuce, cauliflower, artichokes, potatoes - stoop crops. A man may stand to use a scythe, a plow, a pitchfork; but he must crawl like a bug between the rows of lettuce, he must bend his back and pull his long bag between the cotton rows, he must go on his knees like a penitent across a cauliflower patch.”


Cell 4

“The moving, questing people were migrants now. Those families which had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, who had eaten or starved on the produces of forty acres, had now the whole West to rove in… Behind them more were coming.”


Cell 5

“And all the time the fruit swells and the flowers break out in long clusters on the vines. And in the growing year the warmth grows and the leaves turn dark green.”


Cell 6

“Over the high coast mountains and over the valleys the gray clouds marched in from the ocean. The wind blew fiercely and silently, high in the air, and it swished in the brush, and it roared in the forests.”



Template and Class Instructions

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Student Instructions

  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. Choose lines from the book that show describe the landscapes in detail. Write these in the description boxes.
  3. Using Photos for Class, choose pictures that highlight the images captured in these lines. Drag them to the correct cell.
  4. Save and Exit

Lesson Plan Reference

Common Core Standards
  • [ELA-Literacy/RL/9-10/4] Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone)
  • [ELA-Literacy/W/9-10/5] Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10)
  • [ELA-Literacy/L/9-10/5] Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings

Rubric

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Rubric
Proficient
5 Points
Emerging
3 Points
Beginning
1 Points
Explanation
The descriptions are clear and at least two sentences.
The descriptions can be understood but it are somewhat unclear.
The descriptions are unclear and are not at least two sentences.
Illustrations
The illustrations represent the descriptions using appropriate scenes, characters and items.
The illustrations relate to the descriptions, but are difficult to understand.
The illustrations do not clearly relate to the descriptions.
Evidence of Effort
Work is well written and carefully thought out.
Work shows some evidence of effort.
Work shows little evidence of any effort.
Conventions
Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are mostly correct.
Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are somewhat correct.
Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are mostly incorrect.





Image Attributions
  • _MG_0201a • markbyzewski • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
  • Drought • Bert Kaufmann • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
  • Field of Sourgrass • }{enry • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
  • 'Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California' • National Media Museum • License No known copyright restrictions (http://flickr.com/commons/usage/)
  • Picking cotton Peoria AZ • Mennonite Church USA Archives • License No known copyright restrictions (http://flickr.com/commons/usage/)
  • Tractors • Phil_Parker • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
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