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Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.

TEXT: OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
LEVEL: 9th-12th
TOTAL: 200+ slides/pages
→ Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included

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LITERATURE PLAN CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped

★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity (→ print : → digital)
– answer thematic questions to get students thinking about the novel
– 11-pages/slides activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Google Earth Introduction Tour (→ print : → digital)
– John Steinbeck’s hometown, Soledad, the Gabilan Mountains, the final scene with Lennie and George…they even get to see much of it in 3D zoomed in to the street view. It’s rockin awesome.
12-location 3D tour across the California farming valley
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9

★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc (→ print : → digital)
– organize the 6 parts of the plot
– 2-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
– Suggested Answer Key Provided!

★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict (→ print : → digital)
– Students analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 2-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
– Suggested Answer Key Provided!

★ Characters Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 4-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3

★ Symbols (→ print : → digital)
– Students analyze 9 different symbols in the story
– 12-page bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow (→ print : → digital)
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide PowerPoint will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Figurative Language Activity (→ print : → digital)
– analyze and complete 39 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 5-page bundle (3 parts)
– Similes vs. Metaphors
– Figurative Language Analysis
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Symbols
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4

★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts (→ print : → digital)
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 22-question PowerPoint
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1

★ 12 Comprehension Pop Quizzes (→ print : → digital)
– a 5-question pop quiz for each of the 6 parts of the novel
* 26-slides of PowerPoint Quizzes
* 12-pages of Printable Quizzes
– The purpose of these is so students who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and students who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.10

★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment (→ print : → digital)
– 90 vocabulary words from the novel
– three 30-question lists & quizzes
– 12-page Bundle includes list of words, quiz, and answer keys
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4

★ Essay and Speech (→ print : → digital)
– 3 response to literature essay options for students to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 6-page bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1

★ Movie vs. Novel Analyzer (→ digital)
– 2-page Worksheet
– Students compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy! Now go live off the fat o’ the land.

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OTHER OF MICE AND MEN EXCITEMENT
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