Of Mice And Men Close Reading And Text Dependent Questions

Students analyze Of Mice and Men using key skills for college and career readiness. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck and first ublished in 1937. It chronicles the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers as a teenager in the 1910s (before the arrival of the Okies that he would describe in The Grapes of Wrath). The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse", which reads: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley". (The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.) While it is a book taught in many schools, Of Mice and Men has been a frequent target of censors for vulgarity, and what some consider offensive and racist language; consequently, it appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century.

Aid students in analyzing this well-known story about friendship and loss. Encourage them to depict the struggles that Lennie and George face in their relationship by completing rigorous yet fun activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. Readers will enjoy analyzing this title while reveling in the life lessons they take away from it. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will walk away with after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. Written to support this well-known novel, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature.

Students analyze Charlotte's Web using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.

Of Mice and Men: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities designed specifically for this classic novel by John Steinbeck. This valuable resource guides teachers in a rich and deep exploration of the text with ways to add rigor with complex literature. Readers will enjoy their analysis of this story while evaluating its themes of friendship and loss through close reading, text-based vocabulary practice, and fun activities and lessons. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the story, and close reading activities require students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages for deeper analysis. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build an in-depth understanding of this classic tale.

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We live in an age of economics. We are encouraged not only to think of our work but also of our lives in economic terms. In many of our practices, we are told that we are consumers and entrepreneurs. What has come to be called neoliberalism is not only a theory of market relations; it is a theory of human relations. Friendship in an Age of Economics both describes and confronts this new reality. It confronts it on some familiar terrain: that of friendship. Friendship, particularly close or deep friendship, resists categorization into economic terms. In a sustained investigation of friendship, this book shows how friendship offers an alternative to neoliberal relationships and can help lay the groundwork for resistance to it.

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