Written assignments over the trial

Click on the picture to view a description of the different written assignments to be completed after the trial.  Remember, you only need to complete the assignment that fits the role you are fulfilling during the trial.

The Trial of George Milton

If you click on the picture below, you will go to a document that explains our entire trial project over Of Mice and Men.  Feel free to print out any part you feel will be helpful to you as we prepare for the trial.

Practice Quiz for Chapters 5 and 6

Here is a link to a practice quiz for chapters 5 and 6.  This will definitely help you study for your reading quiz!!! Just click on the picture to get to the practice quiz.

Link to Study Guide for Chapters 5-6

Click on the picture below to go to a printable copy of the Chapter 5-6 Study Guide. The study guide was distributed in class on Friday, Nov. 15.

We will be going over it on Monday, November 18.  You must be through reading the book by then.

 

 

Links to practice quote quizzes

Click on the quotation mark pictures to go to interactive quote quizzes over Of Mice and Men.  You can take these as many times as you like for practice before our quiz in class.  Each time you load the quiz, the question order and answer order changes.

 

 

Chapter 4 Study Guide Link

Click on the picture below to go to a printable version of the study guide for Chapter 4.  I gave these out in class on Wednesday, Nov. 13.  If you did not get one, lost yours, or were absent feel free to print it.  We will be going over this on Friday.

A Few More Due Dates

Wednesday, November 13 – Be through reading Chapter 4

Thursday, November 14 – Be through reading Chapter 5; Study Guide for Chapter 4 due today; Reading Quiz over Chapter 4

Friday, November 15 – Be through reading Chapter 6; Study Guide over Chapter 5 due today; Reading Quiz over Chapter 5

Monday, November 18 – Study Guide over Chapter 6 due today; Reading Quiz over Chapter 6

Friday, November 22 – Quotation Test over entire book

Final Assessment / Project – Tuesday, November 26

Study Help for Chapter 3 Reading Quiz

Click on the picture below to go to an interactive quiz over Chapter 3.  You can take it as many times as you like.  When you are done, you click ‘check’ at the bottom of the page and your paper will be scored.  Then you can try correcting yourself until you get all of the answers correct.  If you practice on this several times, you should do really well on the quiz on Tuesday, 11-12-13.

Links to some worksheets we have done over Of Mice and Men:

  

Found Poem – Samples

Below are some examples of the “Found” Poems.  DO NOT plagiarize and try to copy these for your own assignment.  Write your own!!!  These are here just to show you some ways to write these poems. The first example is in the context of our novel, Of Mice and Men.  The second example is not in that context at all.  Both are great. 

Mindy Wara
April 3, 2011
The gnawing sound did not alarm Lennie
until he felt the prick
of the mouse’s teeth sink into his hand.
He instinctively squeezed.
The snapping noise echoed in his ears
as he reluctantly pried open his his fist.
He stroked its sleek, greasy gray head
as if he were denying it had ever happened.
Silence fell as he delicately placed the freshly crushed
mouse in his left pocket,
picked up some sticks,
and headed back to camp.
The sound of his heavy footsteps died away
as he came out of the night and into the clearing
and rejoined his friend,
as if nothing had happened.

 

 

Waiting for Father's Day
Mindy Wara
April 3, 2011
The raindrops rippled on the edge of the deck
as I stood outside of the screen door of my father’s house.
My sister and brother waited in my crappy red convertible
on the darkening pavement staying dry.
I knocked twice. He wasn’t home.
Silence cut through the rain.
I jogged back to my car. Drenched.
I wrung out my gray sweatshirt
before taking my place behind the wheel.
The keys in the ignition lay silent.
I leaned my seat back and stared at the ceiling.
A minute passed, and another minute.
They felt like hours in my soggy socks and shoes
as they lightly rested on the peddles.
The silence came into the car.
It crept in from outside.
The snapping noise of Megan’s seat belt snapped me back to life.
The cool worn leather of the steering wheel seemed to pulse
under my hands as I gripped harder. Finally tired
of waiting I smashed the palm of my hand into the horn.
A gnawing sound bleated from the car, harsh, brittle,
and telling of the car’s age.
The lights of the house finally flipped on
as he came out of the night and waited by the door.
We reluctantly spilled out of the car
and shuffled to the house with our gifts,
the wrapping paper growing damp with every soggy step.

Notes over Point of View from November 6

Click on the picture below to go to a printable copy of the notes over point of view that were taken in class on Wednesday, November 6.

Chapter 3 Study Guide

Here is the link to the printable version of the study guide for Chapter 3.  We will be working on this in class on Friday.  If you would like to get ahead, feel free to print this yourself and begin working on it.  If you lose your copy, this link is here for you to print yourself another study guide. Just click on the picture of George and Lennie to go to the study guide!

 

Chapter 3 Information / Discussion Questions to Think About!

The following questions do not have to have written answers.  You will need to be able to discuss them intelligently in class on Wednesday and Friday (November 6 & 8).  I will post a study guide for Chapter 3 very soon.  Be watching for it! The study guide is due on Thursday.  On Thursday, we will be checking the study guide. We will be having a reading quiz on Friday followed by a discussion of Chapter 3. We will also have group time on Friday to read our completed poems.

Chapter Three (part I)

• (Page 39) Why does George put himself down when talking to Slim?
• (Page 40) What is the correlation between smarts and niceness?
• (Page 41) Does George trust Slim? Why?

• What are Carlson's reasons for shooting the dog verses Candy's reasons for not wanting to shoot the dog?
• How are Candy and his dog similar?
• Who is being literally silenced? Who is being metaphorically silenced? How? By who?
• What effect does the personification of silence have on this scene?
• What does this say about how Whit thinks/feels about work?
• What does this say about George and Lennie and how they feel about their work?

Chapter 3 (part II)

• (Page 51) Why does Curly's wife spend so much time around the men? What is she looking for?
  • Do you think she will find whatever she is looking for from any of the men on the ranch?
  • Who is most likely to fall for Curly's wife?
• Why do minor characters, even Susy the prostitute, and the dog Lulu, have names, but not Curley’s wife?
• (Page 56) George and Lennie's dream of owning their own land is becoming a reality. Lennie is obviously very excited - he has been waiting for his rabbits for a long time. How might George honestly feel about his dream actually being in reach?
• (Page 58) When George and Lennie are talking about their dream, Lennie reacts violently to the hypothetical idea of the cat hurting the baby rabbits. What do we learn about Lennie through his reaction?
• (Page 59) We discussed the parallels between Candy and his dog and now Candy sees this parallel himself and wants to join George and Lennie on their potential land. Why does Candy want to join George and Lennie - who he just met - so badly?
  • How does George feel about letting Candy in on his dream?
  • Why does George decide to let him in on it?
• (Page 61) We have seen George lie before. Why does he choose to keep the dream and Candy's involvement from the other ranch hands?
  • Why does he choose to keep it from Slim who we have seen him confide in before?
• (Page 62) Carlson suggests Curly's wife has no place outside of the house. What does this say about his opinion on women? What does this say about the 1930's opinion on women?
  • Has this opinion changed since the 1930s? How so? How is is similar?
• (Page 64) Who has the most power and influence on this ranch?
• (Page 65) Respond to Lennie's reaction to the fight.
  • Would Lennie have fought back if George had not told him to?

Found Poem Exercise

Click on the picture to go to a printable document with the instructions for the Found Poem exercise.  I will put some examples of poems up later in the week, so keep watching!  Your poems are due on Friday, November 8.

Character Notes through Chapter 2

Click on the picture below to go to a printable version of the notes we took in class on Monday, November 4.  You are responsible for this information.