Due Today: OMM Chapter 1 Reading Log

1. Monday, 30 August 2010 Due Today: OMM Chapter 1 Reading Log Bell-work: Please get out your writer’s notebook and continue writer’s notebook #1 from Friday. Learning Objectives: You will alienate and isolate others as they alienate and isolate you. You will record biographical information about our author. You will begin to develop a definition of social injustice & the American dream. Agenda: OMM Reading Log Q&A Writer’s Notebook #1: OMM Thematic Quick-writes Writer’s Notebook #2: Social Injustice & The American Dream Alienation Activity Homework: OMM Chapter 2 Reading Log Vocabulary Chart Chapters 1-3

2. Q U O T E L E A D I N Quotation Mark Parenthetical Citations George shows friendship from the very beginning of the novel when he says,“‘Lennie – if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hid in the brush’”(Steinbeck 15). Quote Quotation Mark Period after parentheses. (Author Page #).

3. Writer’s Notebook #1September 17, 2010 Of Mice and Men Quick-Writes • Explain a time in your life when you felt alienated and left out. Use specific details to show what happened and how you felt. • Describe the importance of friendship. Provide specific examples from your own life to illustrate this importance. • Explain a dream you have for your future. What is your plan? How will you accomplish this dream? Why is this dream so important to you? • “The American Dream” is a phrase that you’ll hear a lot during your time in English classes at BCHS and beyond. What does this phrase mean to you?

4. Writer’s Notebook #2September 20, 2010Social Justice & The American Dream • For the second Writer’s Notebook entry, I’d simply like you to paraphrase the definition of two terms. • Social Justice • The American Dream

5. Social Injustice • Social Injustice is a concept relating to the purported unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens and other incidental inequalities. Social injustice arises when equals are treated unequally. Social injustice is caused by certain barriers that prevent full social justice. Some of the major barriers include: prejudice, discrimination, oppression, racism, classism, ableism, ageism, and sexism.

6. The American Dream • The American Dream is a national concept that this country holds a promise of prosperity for its people. In the American Dream, citizens at every level feel that they can achieve a "better, richer, and happier life.“ • The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence which states that "all men are created equal“ and that they have "certain inalienable Rights“ including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.“ • The accuracy and validity of the American Dream is highly debated. • The American Dream has been credited with helping to build a cohesive American experience but has also been blamed for overinflated expectations. • The presence of the American Dream has not historically helped minority groups or citizens in low economic status. Instead, the American wealth structure has often been observed to sustain class differences in which well-positioned groups continue to be advantaged. • The American Dream is often used as a synonym for home ownership since homes have historically been seen as status symbols separating the middle class from the poor.

7. Tuesday, 31 August 2010 Due Today: OMM Chapter 2 Reading Log Bell-work:Please get ready to submit the reading log for OMM chapter 2. Learning Objectives: You will record biographical information about our author. You will select and record important information about the time period of our novel. Agenda: OMM Chapter 2 Review Writer’s Notebook #3: John Steinbeck Biographical Presentation Writer’s Notebook #4: The Great Depression Informational Video Homework: OMM Chapter 3 Reading Log OMM Reading Comprehension Quiz on Block Day Vocabulary Chart Chapters 1-3 due Block Day

8. Writer’s Notebook #3September 21, 2010John Steinbeck • Please select important information from the biographical presentation on John Steinbeck, and record that information in your notebook.

9. Writer’s Notebook #4September 21, 2010The Great Depression • Please record 15 facts you learn from the video on The Great Depression.

10. Wednesday, 22 September 2010 Due Today: OMM Chapter 3 Reading Log Vocabulary Chart Chapters 1-3 Bell-work: Please pick up a handout from the stool on the way to your seat. Also, begin Writer’s Notebook #5. Learning Objectives: You will alienate and isolate others as they alienate and isolate you. You will analyze a song that displays the plight of the migrant farmer. You will apply literary elements to the first three chapters of our novel. You will understand idioms, and determine the meaning of some idioms found in our text. Agenda: Writer’s Notebook #5: “I’d Rather Not be on Relief” Alienation Activity OMM Predict & Apply Plot Elements OMM Vocabulary Chart Chapters 4-6 Writer’s Notebook #6: Idioms OMM Chapter 4 aloud Homework: OMM Predict & Apply Plot Elements OMM Chapter 4 Reading Log OMM Chapters 4-6 Vocabulary Chart

11. Writer’s Notebook #5September 22, 2010I’d Rather Not be on Relief • Please read the song on the handout and answer the questions that follow in your writer’s notebook. Feel free to work with your neighbors.

12. Examples of Idioms • cost an arm and a leg • don’t count your chickens before they hatch • hit the hay • jump the gun

13. Baloney Booby Hatch Nonsense Insane Asylum Whiskey Protecting Someone Figured out A Man’s Wife Get a job in the Movies Corn Cover ‘em up Doped Out Old Lady Put me in Pitchers

14. Right Cross Screwy A type of Punch (boxing) Crazy Trying to Make me Believe Sit Down Hanged or Lynched A Coffin Left or Leave Was an Entertainer on the Stage Sellin’ Me Set Strung up in a Tree Take You Out in a Box Took a Powder Went with shows

15. Friday, 2 September 2010 Due Today: OMM Predict & Apply Plot Elements OMM Chapters 4 Reading Log Bell-work: Please get ready to turn in the OMM Reading Log for Chapter 5 and the OMM Predict & Apply Plot Elements. Learning Objectives: You will apply literary elements to the first three chapters of our novel. You will compare and contrast a film adaptation to our text. Agenda: OMM Predict & Apply Plot Elements Writer’s Notebook #7:OMM Film Adaptation Homework: OMM Chapters 5 Reading Log OMM Chapters 4-6 Vocabulary Chart

16. Writer’s Notebook #7September 24, 2010OMM Venn Diagram