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  1. What did you think of the panel discussion in Barton Hall? And how was your small group discussion on Monday?
  2. Ch 30: "She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously."
  3. Ch 29: "No work until spring. No work. And if no work--no money, no food."
  4. Ch 28: "I'll be ever'where--wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there...."
  5. Ch 27: "Try for God's sake ta save a little money! Winter's comin' fast. They ain't no work at all in California in the winter."
  6. Ch 26: "We got to do somepin," she said....Now don't none of you get up till we figger somepin out....You set here an' get busy!"
  7. Ch 25: "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
  8. "They's change a-comin'. I don' know what. Maybe we won't live to see her. But she's a-comin'. They's a res'less feelin'...." (p. 345)
  9. Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange: http://bit.ly/3vDBUi
  10. "Well, what the hell can I do?" Pa demanded. "I can't starve so's you can get two bits." (p. 339)
  11. Ch 24:"Know what you an' me's gonna do? We're a-goin' to that dance, an' we're a-gonna set there an' watch...an' you can hear the music...."
  12. "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." The Bible, Old Testament, Song of Solomon, 2:1.
  13. The Grapes of Wrath movie -- ReThink Review: http://bit.ly/wuJWf
  14. Visit the real "Weedpatch Camp" at http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/.
  15. "These three in the evening, harmonica and fiddle and guitar. Playing a reel and tapping out the tune...." (p. 329)
  16. Ch 23: "The migrant people looked humbly for pleasure on the roads."
  17. "Get to the store. I want beans an' sugar an'--a piece of fryin' meat an carrots...Tonight--we'll have--something nice. (p.324)
  18. Check out the new August issue of Vanity Fair: http://bit.ly/ugNyB
  19. Follow the Joad's journey on Cornell's Grapes of Wrath Google Map: http://bit.ly/10weHa
  20. Ch 22: "There," said Ruthie. "Them's the toilets. I seen 'em in the catalogue."