The goals of this Grapes of Wrath supplement and reading-writing exercise are:
- to exercise and improve students’ observation skills by teaching them to observe body language, dialect and gestures without judgment;
- to help students recognize the role body language plays in character sketches (word portraits);
- to help students “read” character through habits of speech and manner of dress;
- to show students the use and value of non-generic, descriptive verbs in delineating character;
- to write word portraits (using Steinbeck’s character sketches as models) with well chosen descriptive verbs that are based on careful observations that they have made and recorded.
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