This lesson plan provides ideas for exploring Woodie Guthrie's music while reading John Steinbeck's book The Grapes of Wrath.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, The Grapes of Wrath is one of the most beloved novels in American literature. This site provides fascinating insights into the characters, themes and quotations from the novel.

Describes the causes and the events of the Great American Dust Bowl, when farmland was destroyed through misguided practices, famine set in, and dust storms drove people to desperation.