PRE-READING ACTIVITY--THE LANDLADY

1.What was Billy doing in Bath, arriving for the first time, in Bath one cold evening?

2.What did he ask the porter at the railway station?

3.What attracted Billy to look in the window of the h

ouse along the street?

4.What made him ring the doorbell of the

5.Why was the owner of the house expecting him?

6.What was strange about the names in the guest book?

7.What did the two pets

8.How did the landlady treat Billy

9.What did the landlady offer to Billy?

10.How does your story end?

Period 5 and 6 lesson on 9/14-9/16

Good Afternoon!

I have been told by  my doctor to stay at home for the rest of the week. Baby and I are doing fine.

September 14 & 15 lesson

You will begin reading TWO KINDS on page 90.

You will read this story using the RECIPROCAL TEACHING strategy:

After each page, you are to complete a summary, question and prediction

See you all on Monday.

Honors 10

Complete the Quickwrite on page 5 of your Interactive Notebook. If you run out of space continue onto the next left-side and number it page 5 too.

Of Mice and Men Chapter 5 & 6 Questions

SECTION FIVE

1.  How is Lennie’s treatment of the dead puppy typical of his character?

2.  In what way is Curley’s wife also a dreamer? Is her dream any more realistic than George’s and Lennie’s?

3.  How does Curley’s wife feel about him?

4.  How does she entice Lennie into touching her?

5.  What is the nature of his attack?

6.  How does Lennie react to what he has done?

7.  How does George’s reaction to the murder relate to his belief in the dream?

8.  Compare the reactions of Curley and Slim.

SECTION SIX

1.  Describe Lennie’s state of mind as he goes to hide in the brush.

2.  The description of Lennie’s death recalls another event in the novel. What is it?

3.  What does this parallel/ similarities reveal about George’s motives?

4.  Explain George’s last remarks to Lennie.

5.  Why does George lie about the gun?

6.  Why does Slim treat George as he does?

7.  Explain the significance of the last line in the novel.

June 30, 2015

Agenda

1. OMAM- Friendship Activity

2. OMAM- Foreshadowing Chapter 1 & 2

3. Journal Topic

4. OMAM- Chapter 3 Contextual Vocabulary

4. OMAM- Read Chapter 3 Audio

5. OMAM- Text- Based Questions//Quote Elaboration

6. OMAM- Chapter 3- Character Sketches

June 26, 2015- Character Trait

George

1. practical / impractical

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

2. inattentive / perceptive

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

3. quick-tempered / easygoing

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

4. kind / cruel

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

Lennie

1. mature / childlike

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

2. emotional / unemotional

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

3. shrewd / simple

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

4. eager / reluctant

First Example:___________________________________________________________________________

Second Example:_________________________________________________________________________

OMAM- Indirect Characterization

Steinbeck tells us about his characters in the following ways:

A. He describes their appearances.

B. He shows their actions.

C. He quotes their explanations of their own actions.

D. He quotes their expressions of how they believe and feel.

E. He gives clues from what others say to or about a character

Directions: For each selection from the novel below, use the list in the box above

to identify the method Steinbeck uses to give information about the character(s). Then tell what you learn

about the character(s) from the selection. An example has been done for you

Example: They [George and Lennie] had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one

stayed behind the other.

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________

Selection 1: [Lennie] drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse.

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________

Selection 2: The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________

Selection 3: "Lennie," he said hopelessly. "You'd drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty."

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________

Selection 4: Lennie...imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up his knees, embraced them,

looked over to George to see whether he had it just right.

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________

Selection 5: "I forgot," Lennie said softly. "I tried not to forget. Honest to God I did, George."

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________

Selection 6: His anger left him suddenly. He looked across the fire at Lennie's anguished face, and then he

looked ashamedly at the flames.

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________

Selection 7: Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with

wide sloping shoulders...

Method: ____What you learn_______________________________________________________________