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ERIC Number: EJ348247
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Using the GRAPES OF WRATH in the History Classroom.
Mills, Randy
Social Studies Review, v26 n2 p43-48 Win 1987
Maintains that literary fiction may be used to enhance students' understanding of an historical period. Demonstrates how Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH may be used to convey the human side of problems, sufferings, and triumphs that the United States experienced during the Great Depression. (JDH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literature, Secondary Education, Social Studies, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Depression (Economic 1929); Steinbeck (John)