John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1937)
Before reading
Blurb from our 2014 Penguin Classics edition:
'I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out there. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody never gets no land. It's just in their head.'
Alternative versions available from Ms Grant:
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During reading |
Source of Chapter Review Questions: Laura Randazzo
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(A) Chapter Review Questions
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(B) Consolidate Understanding of Chapters 1 to 3
(C) Continue Chapter Review Questions
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(D) Consolidate Understanding of Chapters 4 to 6
Finish watching 1992 film
After Reading(A) General Review
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(B) SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT TASK
The Common Assessment Task (CAT) across Year 10 English in Term 1 is an essay on characterisation in Of Mice and Men.
Essay Topic:
How does Steinbeck's characterisation of George and Lennie
affect the audience's response to the end of the novella?
STEP 1
To get started, let's determine your THESIS using a values walk.
STEP 2 Then let's discuss CHARACTERISATION. Whether you realised it while you were reading the book or not, your opinion about the ending was manipulated by the way Steinbeck has constructed George and Lennie as characters. Use your answers to the Chapter Review Questions and the Quotes Wall to fill in these scaffolds (hardcopies will be given out in class). They cover the four main aspects of characterisation:
These e-book versions might help you find quotes more easily:
STEP 3 Before you start writing, let's talk about the STRUCTURE of your essay, referring to the guides to your right. STEP 5
Finally, once your first draft is finished, we'll go through a process of peer critique and self-editing. STEP 6 SUBMISSION is via Turnitin so that a plagiarism check can be conducted. There is a lot of temptation to plagiarise from the internet for a classic and popular text like Of Mice and Men. Turnitin will recognise direct quotes that you take from the novella but these are encouraged! |
DUE DATE:
Thursday Week 8 (24th March) Submit your essay via
Essay Structure
INTRODUCTION 10% 70-80 words BODY 80% 560-640 words Body Paragraph 1 Characters' Appearance 140-160 words Body Paragraph 2 Characters' Actions and Thoughts 140-160 words Body Paragraph 3 Characters' Words 140-160 words Body Paragraph 4 How Others React to the Characters 140-160 words CONCLUSION 10% 70-80 words TOTAL = 700-800 words Paragraph structure
T opic sentence E laboration E xamples (with Evidence) L inking sentence |
Other Recommended Resources
2014 Broadway play directed by Anna Shapiro
National Theatre Live page |
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Stephen Maunder
'Why do children study Of Mice and Men?' |