Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck

SCORE Cyberguide
Aset of four lessons on Steinbeck's life and times, the history of migrant labor, mental retardation, and characterization which was prepared for students in Advanced Level ESL or Sheltered English.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/mice/micetg.html

Create a Steinbeck brochure
A webquest on Steinbeck’s life and times
http://cuba.k12.nm.us/webquest/steinbk.htm

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Text of speech in which Steinbeck "consider[s] the high duties and responsibilities of the makers of literature." http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/nobel.html

Essay/Response Topic: Has Steinbeck met the duties of a maker of literature as he defines them with Of Mice and Men? Explain your answer with specific reasons and specific references to the text.

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Voices from the Dust Bowl: an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

Group Assignment: Create a portfolio portraying the life of migrant workers which includes various medium as well as personal response and explanations for choices made.

"To a Mouse" by Robert Burns http://www.emule.com/poetry/dispoem.cgi?poem=394

Something That Happened a brief adaptation from a recent biography which provides interesting information about the original title of OMAM, Something That Happened
http://www.heinemann.co.uk/windmill/sbeck.shtml

Class Assignment: Discuss meaning of poem and how it relates to themes in the book; also discuss as it relates to information on original title (SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED) and idea of non-teleological world (and religion).

Of Mice and Men: The Author, Times and Issues
Poway High School teacher’s site with lots of historical and cultural links
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusdphs/bwhitcom/index.htm

Monte Vista High School site on OMAM includes links: About John Steinbeck; Migrant Workers Article; Interview with George Milton; Map of California; History of Salinas; "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns (audio)
http://monte.mvhs.srvusd.k12.ca.us/~mleck/mice/

Of Mice and Men Newspaper Project
High school teacher’s Internet research guide for a student newspaper
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/itec815_f98/lfranson/lfresources.html

MGM/UA Site on OMAN Sinise movie, mostly graphics
http://www.planetx.com/sinise/mice/

Resources: use as a resource and example for student (and teacher) portfolios/newspapers/research.

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