Yr 10 English: Of Mice and Men

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https://www.steinbeckintheschools.com/historical-context/1930-1940

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/04/crash-1929-wall-street-what-the-great-depression-reveals-about-our-future

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/dust-bowl/

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/grapes-wrath/

https://depts.washington.edu/moving1/dustbowl_migration.shtml

https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/great-depression

https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/state-of-the-american-dream/churchwell-history-of-the-american-dream

https://time.com/3879426/the-american-way-photos-from-the-great-ohio-river-flood-of-1937/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/21/end-of-the-american-dream-the-dark-history-of-america-first

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/18/great-depression-photography-art-exhibition-chicago#:~:text=In%201937%2C%20Margaret%20Bourke%2DWhite,flooding%20in%20Ohio%20River%20valley.

https://www.artic.edu/articles/467/worlds-highest-standard-of-living

https://asmadrid.libguides.com/c.php?g=679335&p=4841628

https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/literary-arts/john-steinbeck--the-grapes-of-wrath/chapters/the-dust-bowl-migrants/

https://www.loc.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-workers-from-1940-to-1941/articles-and-essays/the-migrant-experience/

https://www.leapinfo.org/advocacy/history-of-disability-rights/1930s

https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/topics/disability-history

https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/lesson/1231/Reading%204%20The%20Intellectually%20and%20Physically%20Disabled%E2%80%94Of%20Mice%20and%20Men%20in%20the%20Great%20Depression.pdf?rev=4253

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0393-8

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/race-relations-in-1930s-and-1940s/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/n-word-became-atomic-bomb-racial-slurs

https://www.adl.org/resources/lesson-plan/n-word-its-history-use-and-impact

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/ground-1936/