Day 29

English 101 Day 29

1. Chapter 20
   
   1. Ma Joad
      
   2. Jim Casey
      
   3. Tom Joad
      

      
      

2. For your second essay
   
   1. What is your main idea?
      
   2. How will your story's details support this main idea?
      
   3. Rough Draft Due Next Wednesday bring 4 copies
      
   4. 3-6 pages
      
   5. Departure, Journey, Arrival
      
   6. Experience
      
      1. Moves, roadtrips, psychological?
         
   7. Observation
      
      1. Your parents/grandparents coming to the valley, state, country
         
      2. Other
         
   8. Imagination
      
      1. Muley, Willy Feely, Ivy Wilson, Connie, Noah, One Eyed Man,
         
      2. Now?
         
      3. Future? What if GW plays out like Gore says? I'd like to keep it on Earth, and without wizards, I'd say.
         

         
         

3. Read Chapter 21
   
4. For your third essays 18, 19, 21,
   
   1. Second largest population of DB migrants are in the YV
      
   2. Okies/Mexicans (or SE Asians or Chinese or…)
      
      1. Reasons for leaving
         
      2. Difficulty of the journey
         
      3. Treatment upon arrival
         
      4. Housing
         
   3. Corporate farming v. small farmer
      
      1. Packing houses? Canneries?
         
      2. What do we know about this?
         
      3. Rainier Fruit, for example
         
   4. Global Horizons, Express Personnel , farm labor contractors
      
   5. Robots in the orchards
      
   6. Labor Unions v Owners
      
      1. Snokist, Washington Beef, Washington Fruit, Congdon, Teamsters in 1990's
         

   
   

5. Weedpatch
   
   1. Utopia, "no place"—perfect place, ideal society.
      
   2. What makes Weedpatch a Utopia?
   3. Why not end here?
      
6. Monday—I'm not going to talk. You should bring something to type/save to
   

H/W: Chapter 24, 25, first half of 26