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RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
Research the Great Depression. Choose two articles that you are going to work with.
Identify some defining characteristics of the Great Depression that are still relevant today.
Summarize the causes of the Depression. Compare that era to modern American society.
Write a summary of each article and discuss how it supports or contradicts the way the Great Depression is characterized in the novel..
JOURNAL QUESTIONS
What are some characteristics all your friends have in common? What kind of people do you tend to hang out with?
Describe a time you wanted to end a friendship/relationship but were unable to.
Describe a time you were bullied by someone. Describe a time you bullied someone.
Describe a time you accidentally hurt someone.
ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Write your own interpretation of what happens between Crooks and Lennie.
How does Steinbeck use Crooks’ life to help explain the relationship between George and Lennie?
How does what Crooks say to Lennie help explain why George will come back?
Discuss in small groups what happens when Lennie is alone in the barn in chapter five. How did he kill the pup?
What does this tell you about how Lennie responds to what is right and wrong?
What does he think when he kills the pup? What does he do?
What does his killing the pup tell you about what is likely to happen when Curley’s wife comes in? Why does this change?
How does he kill her? Why?
What does he think and do after he kills her?
When we see Lennie at the pool in the next chapter, why does Steinbeck have him imagine Aunt Clara and the rabbit?
What does this tell us about Lennie? Does he really believe what he has done is wrong?
Is George right when he says,“He never done this to be mean”? Why does Lennie do it?
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