OMAM: Socratic Seminar

Important Dates Coming Up:

Tuesday, Jan. 31:     

--OMAM Socratic Seminar
Friday, Feb. 3:        

--OMAM Packet due 

Wed., Feb. 8:          

--FD Tribute Speech due
Thurs. Feb. 9:          

--Tribute Speeches begin--this may change. 

HW for tonight (Wed., 1/25) is to begin preparing for next week's Socratic Seminar.

Here are your questions. Please respond to them on a separate sheet of paper (not in your journal). You may be able to cut and paste this chart onto a blank document, but I'm not sure. If not,  you can copy the questions. 

You can respond either in a bulleted list or in complete sentences, but have the question and the response on your page (not just the response).

Questions 2-3-4-8-9 require that you include some references and pg. #'s fromthe text to support your answer. The others are higher level thought questions, so they're more open-ended.

For tomorrow, I expect you to have at least #1-5 finished.

 

Question	From OMAM Text: Ideas & text. refs. w/pg. #’s	Your Personal Connections and Thoughts
1. Was George justified in his actions at the end of the book? Why or why not? What should happen to him legally, if anything?
2. What event earlier in the story foreshadowed Lennie’s death? Was that event justifiable? Why or why not?
3. Each character has a dream. How do the dreams differ from character to character?	George & Lennie Candy Curley's Wife Crooks Whit Others?
4. How and why does G & L's dream change over the course of the book? What makes it stronger or weaker?
5. In the novel, what is the purpose of “the dream”? Connect the idea of “the dream” to loneliness vs. friendship. How does it create loneliness or isolation? How does it encourage friendship?
6. What do the different dreams suggest about class, race, and gender during the  time  the novel occurs?
7. The title, Of Mice and Men, is an allusion to a Robert Burns poem. How is this allusion meaningful in the novel?
8. Analyze Steinbeck’s portrayal of Curley’s wife as the lone female on the all-male ranch. Is she to blame for Lennie’s death?
9. How is Of Mice and Men an allegory (look it up!) ? What does each of the characters represent?
10. Of Mice and Men has a controversial history. It has been repeatedly banned by school boards. Why might this book have been banned? Is such an action justified?	http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/aboutbannedbooks http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/reasonsbanned
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Are you your brother’s (or sister's) keeper?  --To what extent are we responsible for each other? --Are we inherently responsible for people who are less fortunate than we are—personally? As a society?

Here are the Ch. 4 OMAM Q's. Do them in the next JE; don't forget the Q & R.

OMAM                           
Ch. 4  66-83

Vocab:

• averted – turned away
• crestfallen – depressed, dejected
• fawning – flattering,  attempting to please
• mauled – roughly handled

Allusions and Idioms (define):

• booby hatch
• put me in pitchers
• took a powder
• roll your hoops

1. Why is Curley’s wife nameless?
 

2. List three adjectives that describe Crooks.
 

3. What initially brings Lennie to Crooks’ room? How does Crooks react to the visitor?
 

4. Why does Lennie become upset with Crooks?
 

5. Why does Crooks make Lennie believe that George will not come back for him?
 

6. How does Crooks explain to Lennie why he upset him?
 

7. Who comes to visit Lennie, Candy, and Crooks? What is the real reason behind the visit?
 

8. Characterize Curley’s wife as she is presented in the novel. How is the reader supposed
to feel about her?

9.  How does this chapter end? Explain the circular nature of the chapter and what it
implies about Crooks.

10.  Do a Q & R for Ch. 4 in your journal.

Here's the link for vocab, allusions, and idioms.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/index.html

I'm trying to figure out how to embed the mp3 of OMAM onto the blog, but Google is stubborn.
I probably won't figure it out until after 9 PM.

Journal #4: Table of Contents


Journal grading will be later this week. Make sure you're ready!

JE	Left	Right
1	MI Article	MI Q’s and A’s
2	FFA Webquest Worksheet	Cont’d
3	Charly: List of 10	Lit Letter Directions
4	Blog Work: Soc. Sem. Q’s	cont’d
5	Soc. Sem. Info Sheet (white)	Comment/Question Starters (blue)
6	Partner Obs. Sheet for Soc. Sem. (about you)	Open Mind 2012: 10 symbols in color
7	List of 10: John Steinbeck	Movie Notes: “Surviving the Dust Bowl” & “Riding the Rails”
8	RD Fakebook Page: John Steinbeck	“To a Mouse: --Poem & Summary --Glossary & Translation (double flippy)
9.	OMAM Character Chart	OMAM Ch. 1 Q’s
10	OMAM Ch. 1 Q’s (cont’d)	OMAM Ch. 1   Q & R

EXTRA CREDIT! 
I just found out we are short 20 Of Mice and Men books. I'll give you 10 EC points if you purchase your own.

If possible, please get this particular edition:

• Published by Penguin
• ISBN 0140177396 
• (ISBN = International Standard Book Number; it's on the reverse side of the title page with all the publishing info.

If you get your own copy, you can annotate it. Otherwise, you'll be using sticky notes (which you can also use in addition to annotation).

John Steinbeck Fakebook Page

In order to make sure you have a strong sense of who John Steinbeck is and what he believed,
I'd like you to make a fake facebook page for him.


RD due: Monday, Jan. 7, in JE #8/left--pencil is fine; just sketch out the format & ideas


Please wait to do the FD!


I know there are examples of this on the internet, so please use them for inspiration, but practice academic honesty and BE ORIGINAL.


Work from the assumption that everyone is alive (Steinbeck, his friends and contemporaries, characters in his books), and they're carrying on interesting conversations. You'll have to do further research!


Make sure to include:

• picture of JS
• a quote of his that resonates w/you (Try brainyquote.com.)
• accurate historical information that ties in (instead of inventing things)
• friends 
• wall messages? other facebook features?

Here's an example of  a page for Winston Churchill, just to give you an idea.

Webquest: OMAM Background

Explore the links and answer the Q's on separate paper. You can work with a partner at the computer, but please do your own writing so it's in your voice, not your partner's.

1.  "Mass Exodus from the Plains" (read the article):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-mass-exodus-plains/

• What's the name of the novel by John Steinbeck mentioned in this article?
• Describe how the migrant workers were received when they reached California.
• Imagine you've lost the family farm due to severe dust storms. Will you stay and tried to rebuild your life, or will you join the thousands of others packing up for California? Why (or why not)? Write in first person.

2.  Dorothea Lange: 

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

• Who was Dorothea Lange, and why was she important to those who experienced life during Dust Bowl? 
• Write a poem (at least 50 words) about her most famous photograph of this period. It's this one: