The Pearl Background and Context Padlet by Caiteyn Mason https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve en-us 2019-04-01 16:16:47 UTC 2019-04-01 16:32:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347268691 John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.]]> 2019-04-01 16:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347268691 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347269228 2019-04-01 16:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347269228 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347269460 2019-04-01 16:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347269460 Colonization in Mexico 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347270011 In 1st Jan, 1519, Herman Cortes tried to conquer the Aztec empire with 500 men. It was the beginning of colonization through the Spanish. In 1st Apr, 1519, Herman Cortes started conquering.]]> 2019-04-01 16:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347270011 Colonization in Mexico 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347270436 Mexico was colonized by Spain. ]]> 2019-04-01 16:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347270436 About the author 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347271330 When Steinbeck was born, his father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was a manager at Sperry Flour mill in Salinas. His mother had been a school teacher, and she was sturdily committed to literature and intellectual pursuits (Steinbeck claimed that he and his sisters were “blooded with culture.”) He had two older sisters, Esther and Beth, and a younger sister, Mary—the sister he was very close to growing up.]]> 2019-04-01 16:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347271330 Famous works 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347271778 His most famous works include Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.]]> 2019-04-01 16:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347271778 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347272343 2019-04-01 16:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347272343 557558 https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347272769 Mexico was under Spanish rule for three hundred years, After a heroic attempt by the remaining Aztecs to defend the city, their new emperor Cuauhtémoc surrendered on August 13, 1521. After the fall of the Aztec Empire, Spain renamed the conquered lands as the Vice royalty of New Spain and ruled Mexico for the next three hundred years.]]> 2019-04-01 16:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/557558/opmo78vvk7ve/wish/347272769