E10+A+-+September+21+-+25

=Monday, September 21= = = =Tuesday, September 22= = = =Wednesday, September 23= = = =Thursday, September 24= > Lennie > Candy > Crooks > Curley’s Wife > What is Steinbeck trying to tell us? > When we write about an author’s theme = = =Friday, September 25=
 * ===Vocab quiz tomorrow===
 * Today's warm-up
 * Choose 4 words from the list:
 * trade your 4 words with someone else
 * Write sentences using the four words you're handed!
 * ===Discuss MLA formatting, reasons===
 * ===Turn in pics if you haven't===
 * ===No-name assignments taped to white board===
 * ===If you find one:===
 * ===write your name on it===
 * ===turn it in to the gold box===
 * ===Get quizzes back.===
 * ===If you dispute a score===
 * ===Circle the proble===
 * ===turn in to gold box===
 * ===Discuss book, but not the end!===
 * ===What do we really know about Curley's Wife?===
 * ===Work in groups on finding quotations about dreams and loneliness===
 * ===Vocab quiz!===
 * ===Open book quiz on whole book!===
 * ===Title of the book: Of Mice and Men===
 * ===from a Robert Burns poem from 1785===
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mVBQXoZqIo&safe=active
 * ===Time for thinking:===
 * ===what do the mice, the puppy, and Lennie have in common?===
 * ===what do you think about the end of the book?===
 * Socratic Seminar
 * ===What makes a good question?===
 * Levels of questions
 * ===Always have the text available===
 * ===Easier to support your point===
 * What do you have to say about this book
 * ===especially the ending!===
 * What questions do you have? What do other people think?
 * ===Did you turn in your question card from yesterday's Socratic Seminar?===
 * ===Strange Fruit===
 * ===Foreshadowing===
 * ===What about the puppy?===
 * ===the mice?===
 * ===When do we first hear about Lennie's grip?===
 * ===Who has power in which situations?===
 * ===Curley's Wife===
 * ===Crooks===
 * ===Lennie===
 * ===Why?===
 * ===End of book notes===
 * Of Mice and Men – end of book notes
 * Starts the story with a dead mouse in his pocket
 * Doesn’t mean to kill mice
 * Then he kills the puppy the loves
 * Then Curley’s Wife dies
 * This is foreshadowing!
 * George sees the pattern
 * The girl in Weed
 * Pattern of holding tight
 * Mice
 * Dress in Weed
 * Curley’s fist
 * Curley’s Wife’s hair
 * George chooses to stop the pattern
 * Has been responsible for his dog for years
 * Has to let Carlson shoot his dog
 * Regrets later that Carlson did the shooting
 * Foreshadowing
 * Adds himself to George and Lennie’s dream
 * Hopes the dream can keep going
 * Steinbeck showing racial prejudice
 * Lead to real loneliness
 * Dream doesn’t last for Crooks
 * Can’t go in the bunkhouse
 * Can play horseshoes
 * Because it’s outside
 * Childhood on a farm in California
 * Had to learn about prejudice
 * The real world, as he grew up
 * He scares Lennie (George might be hurt)
 * Crooks never has power with anyone
 * Just trying it for a minute
 * Wants someone to know lonely he is
 * Just as he starts to accept the Dream
 * Curley’s Wife threatens him with death
 * Forces him to drop the new dream
 * Steinbeck showing possible woman’s loneliness
 * She’s in the wrong place!
 * Cute shoes!
 * Met a couple of guys with show biz offers
 * Never got the letter about a job
 * Blames her mom, but . ..
 * Talks to Lennie in the barn
 * Because she’s lonely
 * He’s friendly
 * She doesn’t see any danger
 * The reader sees that the puppy shows she should be careful
 * She doesn’t make the connection
 * Why doesn’t she have a name?
 * Steinbeck is showing how trapped she is
 * Men see her only in relation to Curley
 * Curley sees her as property
 * Themes are big ideas from the author
 * We tell each other stories for a reason
 * Friendship can force us to do horrible things for a good reason.
 * People can feel lonely even with other people around them.
 * Dreams never come true.
 * Need to figure it out
 * Will have a topic + something about the topic
 * When you state the author’s theme
 * Make it a broad statement about life
 * Not related to specific characters or plot of the story
 * Must be able to support the theme
 * With evidence from the text
 * Theme shouldn’t be an absolute
 * Better to say:
 * People at the bottom of the social structure often don’t achieve their dreams
 * Don’t say: No one ever achieves dreams.
 * =work on poster=
 * =essay writing notes=