Resources+for+Research

=*Resources*=

**Tips for Success:** This button lets you go back to the screen prior ||
 * **Online Etiquette** || Appropriate language, tone, all can see ||
 * **Edit** || Tab, just like Microsoft ||
 * **Save** || Lost if not saved ||
 * **Delete some else's work** || Prompt telling you, must cancel yours so as not to overwrite someone else's work ||
 * **Revision History** || Tells us who has done what ||
 * **First name & date** || At the end of your entry if you want credit ||
 * **Resources Page** || *Videos, pictures, research you find to get you started
 * Add to this page if you find great information ||
 * **UNDO Button** || Next to the Preview button - top right

**TODAY'S TASK:**
 * Add an entry to your class page.
 * If you have not read from Chapter 1 yet, go to the "Background Information for Understanding" page and answer on of the questions that your classmates have. Remember the tips above! Ask for help!

=**RESOURCES**=

Here are some places you might consider going for information when attempting to contribute to the wiki for each week. Add more places that you find to help all of us better understand the time and place of this novel!

=**General:**=
 * JCPL Research Database>Literature Resources from Gale>Of Mice and Men**

**California**


 * ** [|California Migration in the 1930s] **


 * **http://www.shgresources.com/ca/timeline/** **Scroll down to the 1920s - 1930s**

The Roaring Twenties
 * **JCPL Research Database>History in Context> search:1920 - images, audio,articles**

= **The Great Depression** =
 * **http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/children_depression/depression_children_menu.cfm**
 * **JCPL Research Database>History in Video> Historical Eras/More> Depression and WWII>America in the 20th Century**

= **The California Dust Bowl** =
 * **[|PBS video] (52 minutes) about The Dust Bowl http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/player/**
 * http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html

= **Migrant workers in California from The Great Depression** =


 * **[|Images]of migrant workers from The Great Depression**
 * [|Migrants in California during the Dust Bowl]

**John Steinbeck**
 * JCPL Research Database>Biography in Context>John Steinbeck
 * [|Biography]