Differentiated Assessment Tasks
after reading "The Grapes of Wrath"
For gifted and talented
1. Prepare a case in a debate between the landowners and the
Okies.
2. Write and deliver a soliloquy as Tom Joad.
3. Prepare a cartoon version of the plot.
4. Design and explain a mural depicting this novel.
5. Develop a lecture (script, overheads, audio) about themes in
this novel.
6. Interview Steinbeck. Prepare a questions agenda and
hypothetical answers by "Steinbeck."
7. Design a webpage for studying this novel.
8. Write a dramatic script of a scene in the novel.
9. Negotiate a challenging task with your teacher.
10. Perform The Ghost of Tom Joad for an audience See
song
lyrics.
For Learning Support students
10. Talk to your teacher on your reading of this novel.
11. Paraphrase selected passages.
12. Do the crossword supplied.
13. Identify and describe the characters on the cover of your Pan
or Minerva edition.
14. Copy out and read aloud selected passages.
15. On a map of the USA, tag the towns the Joads passed through
and on a flag for each, say what happened to them there.
16. Draw a scene in the novel: e.g., a Hooverville, or the Joads'
deserted house.
17. Write a letter to Tom in prison.
18. Compile a collage about turtles. Access various sebsites and
report on your search.
19. Rehearse and sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic and its
parody by Mark Twain
20. Complete the True/False questionnaire:
A "Grapes of Wrath" Questionnaire
Circle whether true or false.
a. The Joads were escaping from the Indians. True/False
b. Pa's father won the land off the Indians True/False
c. The Joads' truck was a Hudson 6. True/False
d. Casy was a member of the Joad family. True/False
e. Noah was damaged at birth by his father. True/False
f. Muley Graves stayed to mind the farm. True/False
g. Sairy Wilson died in ma's arms. True/False
h. The Joads were happy to reach California. True/False
i. Cotton earns more than corn. True/False
j. Roseasharn was the mother of a beautiful daughter. True/False
k. With this novel, Steinbeck earned his Nobel Prize for Literature.
True/False