“This Land Is Your Land”

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Dr. Rob Danin Senior English Language FellowThis Land Is Your Land

1This Land Is Your Land: VocabularyCaliforniaNew York islandredwood forestGulf Stream waters ribbon of highwayendless skywaygolden valleyroamed and rambled followed my footsteps sparkling sandsdiamond deserts

sun came shiningI was strollingwheat fields wavingdust clouds rollingvoice was chantingfog was lifting"No Trespassing"didn't say nothing (anything)steeple freedom highway

2This Land Is Your Land: SightsCalifornia

3This Land Is Your Land: SightsNew York island

4This Land Is Your Land: Sightsred wood forest

5This Land Is Your Land: SightsGulf Stream waters

6This Land Is Your Land: Sightsribbon of highway

7This Land Is Your Land: Sightsendless skyway

8This Land Is Your Land: Sightsgolden valley

9This Land Is Your Land: Sightssparkling sands

10This Land Is Your Land: Sightsdiamond deserts

11This Land Is Your Land: Sightssun came shining

12This Land Is Your Land: Sightswheat fields waving

13This Land Is Your Land: Sightsdust clouds rolling

14This Land Is Your Land: Sightsfog was lifting

15This Land Is Your Land: Sights"No Trespassing"

16This Land Is Your Land: Sightssteeple

17This Land Is Your Land: Sightsfreedom highway

18This Land Is Your Land: Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American novel written by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenet farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought and economic hardship. They were trapped in the Dust Bowl, so the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other Okies , they sought jobs, land, dignity, and a future. (Wikipedia)

19This Land Is Your Land: Oklahoma

20This Land Is Your Land: Folk (Protest) SingersWoody Guthrie (1912-1967), Years active 19301956

Pete Seeger

21This Land Is Your Land: Folk (Protest) SingersLead Belly (Ledbetter)

Alan Lomax (folklorist, political activist)

22This Land Is Your Land: Folk (Protest) SingersBob Dylan

Joan Baez

23This Land Is Your Land: Folk (Protest) SingersPhil Ochs

John Lennon

24This Land Is Your Land: Journeys End

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