You can expect to see these questions on an upcoming quiz. Answer these in your Reader’s notebook.
1. What is the Dust Bowl?
2. What’s the Depression?
3. What is the setting of the novel?
a. California is known as….
b. Soledad means….
4. What are itinerate workers?
5. Describe John Steinbeck’s background.
6. What are some themes in Of Mice and Men?
7. What is important to know about the role of women and minorities back then?
8. What is the importance of treatment of those with learning difficulties and the elderly?
9. What is naturalism?
10. What is some of the controversy about the novel?
Each class began reading the book today.
HW:
- Finish Ch. 1 and be prepared for a short reading quiz.
- Punctuating Dialogue Wksht.