1. INTRO TO THE NOVELLA OF MICE AND MEN

2. MONDAY OCTOBER 21, 2013 What is setting? How can it affect a story? Give an example. 4-5 sentences.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

7. CHAPTER 1 VOCABULARY

8. MOROSELY ADVERB MOROSELY

9. MOROSELY MEANS… sullenly, melancholy

10. 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.

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

12. Bindle Noun Bindle

13. BINDLE MEANS… A sack or package of belongings.

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

15. DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, HOBOS TRAVELED THE COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF WORK CARRYING BINDLES.

16. Imperiously Adverb ImperIously

17. IMPERIOUSLY MEANS… Overbearingly, controlling

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

19. HIS BOSS ALWAYS BOSSES HIMAROUND IMPERIOUSLY.

20. Yammered Verb Yammered

21. YAMMERED MEANS… to complain peevishly or whimperingly, whine

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

23. THE LITTLE GIRL YAMMERED ALL DAY ABOUT HOW UNFAIR IT WAS THAT SHE DIDN’T GET AN EXTRA COOKIE.

24. Juncture Noun Juncture

25. A JUNCTURE IS… A crossroads or intersection

26. They met a juncture and decided to turn left.

27. THE WERE NOT SURE WHICH PATH TO TAKE WHEN THEY ENCOUNTERED A JUNCTURE ON THE PATH.

28. Lumbered Verb Lumbered

29. LUMBERED MEANS… to walk or move with heavy clumsiness

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

31. THE BABY LUMBERED TOWARDS HIS MOTHER.

32. MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2014 Use each vocabulary word in an original sentence: Bindle Imperiously Juncture Yammered morosely

33. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2014

34. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23, 2013 Dialogue is… One purpose of dialogue is.. Another purpose is… Dialogue also…. Lastly, dialogue….

35. FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2013 So far in Mice and Men… Some characters are… Lennie is …. George is…. One major plot event was…

36. LITERARY TERMS

37. DIALOGUE A conversation between 2 characters. In quotations “ “

38. 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”