The Grapes of Wrath - Scrapbooks and Artifacts

Lesson Five: Museum Exhibition

As a culminating activity, students create a museum exhibition that shows a meaningful juxtaposition of artifacts, interview, and text that supports theme. The exhibit should focus on a particular theme or issue uncovered in the character interview.

Possible formats for the exhibit include collage, PowerPoint, iMovie, multi-genre essay, journal, photo-essay, or scrapbook.

Museum exhibitions should include the following elements which show how material artifacts act as literary symbols that support a specific theme from The Grapes of Wrath:

1. Exhibit narrative of at least ten sentences summarizing the exhibit's contents and theme.
2. Ten artifacts from the American Memory collections described in the The Grapes of Wrath.
3. Museum-like caption for each artifact.
4. Text reference for each artifact.
5. Bibliographic entry for each artifact. (For information about citing online sources see Citing Electronic Sources.)
6. Fieldwork Data Collection Survey from interview with character.
7. Museum Exhibition Evaluation.