I N T R O T O T H E N OV E L L A

OF MICE AND MEN

MONDAY OCTOBER 21, 2013

•What is setting? How can it affect a story? Give an example. 4-5 sentences.

SETTING

•Setting is determining time, place, and tone in fiction. This activity helps you to see that the setting at the beginning of the scene establishes the atmosphere for the scene.

DIRECTIONS:

• Read the following passage from the beginning of the first section. Write down five examples of descriptive language that develop and establish atmosphere of the first section. On your paper, explain how the descriptions you wrote down build atmosphere.

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees- willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of 'coons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark.

• CHAPTER 1 VOCABULARY

•MOROSELY•ADVERB•MOR OSE LY

MOROSELY MEANS…

•sullenly , melancholy

•He morosely walked to ISR after the teacher had kicked him out. •She morosely nodded when her mother said she was grounded for a month.

SHE SAT MOROSELY IN HER ROOM AFTER HER BROTHER YELLED AT HER.

•Bindle•Noun•Bin dle

BINDLE MEANS…

•A sack or package of belongings.

•Many migrant workers in in the 1930’s traveled with only a small bindle.

DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, HOBOS TRAVELED THE COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF

WORK CARRYING BINDLES.

•Imperiously•Adverb•Im per I ous ly

IMPERIOUSLY MEANS…

•Overbearingly, controlling

•My mother imperiously ordered me to go to my room. •George imperiously orders Lennie around.

HIS BOSS ALWAYS BOSSES HIMAROUND IMPERIOUSLY.

•Yammered•Verb•Yamm ered

YAMMERED MEANS…

•to complain peevishly or whimperingly, whine

•The students yammered about their poor grades on the ACE.•I yammered to my friends about how unfair my mother was for grounding me.

THE LITTLE GIRL YAMMERED ALL DAY ABOUT HOW UNFAIR IT WAS THAT

SHE DIDN’T GET AN EXTRA COOKIE.

•Juncture•Noun•Junc ture

A JUNCTURE IS…

•A crossroads or intersection

•They met a juncture and decided to turn left.

THE WERE NOT SURE WHICH PATH TO TAKE WHEN THEY ENCOUNTERED

A JUNCTURE ON THE PATH.

•Lumbered•Verb•Lumb ered

LUMBERED MEANS…

•to walk or move with heavy clumsiness

•He lumbered into the bathroom, half asleep. •The puppy lumbered towards the door but fell before he got here.

THE BABY LUMBERED TOWARDS HIS MOTHER.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2014

•Use each vocabulary word in an original sentence:•Bindle• Imperiously• Juncture•Yammered•morosely

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2014

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23, 2013

•Dialogue is…•One purpose of dialogue is..•Another purpose is…•Dialogue also….•Lastly, dialogue….

FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2013

•So far in Mice and Men…•Some characters are…•Lennie is ….•George is….•One major plot event was…

LITERARY TERMS

DIALOGUE

•A conversation between 2 characters.•In quotations “ “

PURPOSES OF DIALOGUE

•Develops characters•Creates setting though dialect and slang•Reveals important information about plot and conflict•Allows reader to experience things as they happen with the character. •Makes the story more “real”