Agenda – Mon. 10/24 Questions so far? Migrant Workers Narratives Background on John Steinbeck and OMAM While you’re reading ch. 1, consider: Do the characters.

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Agenda – Mon. 10/24 Questions so far? Migrant Workers Narratives Background on John Steinbeck and OMAM While you’re reading ch. 1, consider: Do the characters of George and Lennie seem to echo the voices of the migrant workers’ narratives? HW: (1) Ch. 1 Reading Quiz – Tuesday (2) Ch. 1 Reading Log - Tuesday

Migrant Workers Narratives Part I – Find your classmates who also read your assigned narrative and form a group Together, summarize and discuss your assigned narrative – what ways did the Great Depression impact the migrant workers? Develop a list of main points presented in the narrative Record on the front page of your packet Part II -- Each person will now receive a NEW number Find your classmates who also share your new number and form a group First, briefly summarize the narrative you read Share the main ideas that your first group came up with Record these ideas on the first page of your packet

John Steinbeck Born: Feb. 27, 1902 Died: Dec. 20, 1968 From Salinas, California – 80 miles south of San Francisco A rural community – spent his summers working on ranches near his home, often with migrant workers Dropped out of Stanford University to pursue a career in writing During the Great Depression, lived in a cottage owned by his father near Monterey Famous works: Grapes of Wrath (1939) -- Pulitzer Of Mice and Men (1937) East of Eden (1952) Experienced backlash in his community following the publishing of Wrath Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962

Salinas, California

Migrant Workers Philipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California, Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Migrant Workers Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California, February, Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Of Mice and Men “To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough” - Robert Burns, 1785 But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,* [*by thyself] In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley,* [*often go awry] An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Man is at the mercy of fate and circumstance, and the world around him

Chapter 1 While you’re reading ch. 1, consider: Do the characters of George and Lennie seem to echo the voices of the migrant workers’ narratives? How are George and Lennie similar to the migrant workers in the narratives? How are they different? Reminder: Ch. 1 Quiz & Reading Log – Tuesday!