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Of Mice and Men

By John Steinbeck
While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men (1937), creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal; a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

ISBN# 0140177396
Published by The Penguin Group in 1994
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Curriculum Information For Resource

Snapshot
Grade Level(s):9, 10, 11, 12
Curriculum Areas:History/Social Science
English/Language Arts
Themes/Keywords: 1930's
friendship
Great Depression
loneliness
migrant workers


Vocabulary
morosely, periscope, brusquely, anguished, scourges, skeptically , cultivator, mollified, ominously, slough, derogatory, derision, rheumatism, contemptuously, recumbent

Essential Question(s)
1. Do you need others to talk to survive?
2. Do you have to do what's best for you and those you love even if it's not what you like to do?
3. Even though this book was written in 1937, how does it have anything to say to us?

Discussion Question(s)
1. What does Lenny crushing Curley's hand reveal about each of these two characters?
2. How will George succeed with Lennie at his side?

Extension and Activities
1. Describe the killing of Candy's old day and Lennie's death pointing out any similarities and differences between them.
2. Discuss ways in which John Steinbeck argues that “the best-laid plans of Mice and Men” often go wrong.
3. Take an episode from the book and adapt it in the form of a script or storyboard for a screenplay or video.
Aligned to Standards
California Content Standards
English and Language Arts, Grade Nine
Reading
Literary Response and Analysis
Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes.
Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
ELA.9.3.3. Analyze interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text (e.g., internal and external conflicts, motivations, relationships, influences) and explain the way those interactions affect the plot.
ELA.9.3.4. Determine characters' traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy.
History and Social Science, Grade Eleven
United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.
HSS.11.6.3. Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California.
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