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Of Mice and Men Intro. Today’s Schedule. OBJECTIVE : improve writing skills and reading comprehension making predictions and analyzing different texts Title WordWeb Intro to Big Questions for Of Mice and Men Intro to setting of the novel time period and location. Creating a Word Web.
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Today’s Schedule OBJECTIVE: improve writing skills and reading comprehension making predictions and analyzing different texts • Title WordWeb • Intro to Big Questions for Of Mice and Men • Intro to setting of the novel • time period and location
Creating a Word Web Of Mice and Men
What are Big Questions (BQs)? • Big questions will help us be more effective readers • Connecting to our own lives • Ask questions as we read • Making inferences (asking why and predicting) • Summarize ideas and concepts
What is our Big Question? • Are we responsible for one another? • What do you think this means? • Who, if anyone, should feel we responsible for? • Who, if anyone, should we not feel responsible for?
Am I My Brother or Sister’s “Keeper”? • What do you think it means? • Are you your brother’s keeper or sister’s keeper or friend’s keeper? • Why or why not?
Our Characters They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. George Lennie