
English I
Of Mice and Men Web-based Class
Activity
- Go to the http://www.heinemann.co.uk/windmill/sbeck.shtml
web site and, using this web site, answer the following
questions:
- What was the original title of John
Steinbecks Of Mice and Men?
- What happened to Steinbecks first
manuscript of this work?
- For what kind of audience did Steinbeck
originally write Of Mice and Men?
- In what year did Steinbeck actually have a
completed written manuscript for Of Mice and
Men?
- At what time of day or night did Steinbeck
usually write?
- What was the name of Steinbecks
agent?
- When, specifically, was Of Mice and Men
published?
- How many copies had the book sold by the end
of its first two weeks of publication?
- When Of Mice and Men was made into a
Broadway play, how many times was it performed?
- What literary prize did Steinbeck
win?
- Go to the http://monte.mvhs.srvusd.k12.ca.us/~mleck/mice/california.html
web site and click on "Map of California." Using this web site,
answer the following two questions:
- In relation to the San Francisco Bay Area,
where is Weed located&endash;north or south of the Bay
Area?
- In relation to the San Franciso Bay Area,
where is Salinas located&endash;north or south of the Bay
Area?
- Go to the http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/nobel.html
web site and, using this web site, answer the following
questions:
- In his 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech,
Steinbeck speaks of his intention&endash;during the
speech&endash;to behave like what animal? Why?
- What does Steinbeck say literature is as old
as?
- Who does Steinbeck call his "great
predecessor"?
- What, according to Steinbeck, qualifies a
writer for "membership in literature"?
- What New Testament apostle does Steinbeck
quote in this speech?
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