1. Fish Bowl
Of Mice and Men

2. Fish Bowl Rules (review)
Only one person speaks at a time.
Participants must use cues such as body language and eye contact to determine when it is appropriate to speak.
If two people start to speak at the same time, one must yield.
All participants look at the person speaking.
Questions can be asked of other participants in the inner circle to motivate them to join in.
Disagree politely.
State your ideas and support them with evidence.
Respond to the comments of other participants by agreeing or disagreeing and offering additional evidence.
Record notes, quotations from the text(s), statistics, etc., that support your ideas and opinions.
The teacher or seminar leader does not participate in the discussion except to provide a new question or to terminate an irrelevant or inappropriate line of discussion.

3. Rubric Explanation (review)
Note the expectations on the rubric:
State and identify issues to be discussed
Use foundational knowledge
Elaborate & explain
Provide reasons, evidence, etc.
Invite other people to contribute
Challenge the accuracy of your companions’ statements

4. How to Fishbowl Set-up (review)
Only people sitting in the inner circle may speak.
Everyone must speak. If you don’t, you get a 0.
If someone from the outer circle has something to say, he or she sits in one of the two side desks.
Said participant may stay as long as he or she has something meaningful to share.
Outer circle participants must take notes.

5. Question 1
What is the relationship between dogs and people in Of Mice and Men? Look at and beyond the plot to deeper meanings.
Curley’s wife
Lennie
Candy
Remember textual support

6. Question 2
Why does George have to give up the idea of the dream farm once Lennie kills Curley’s wife? Was the farm ever a real possibility?
Remember textual support

7. Question 3
Does George have the right to kill Lennie? Legally? Ethically? How does Steinbeck’s treatment of Lennie’s murder color the way the reader interprets the event? What does George’s action suggest about justice – within the play and in the world as a whole?
Remember textual support

8. Question 4
What is the relationship between social status and being able to attain one’s dreams in Of Mice and Men? How likely are people to achieve one’s dreams, according to the text, if he or she does not begin in a place of privilege?
How likely is someone to achieve his or her dreams if part of a marginalized group?
This question is for us and our time.

9. Wrap-up
For homework, reflect on the discoveries we made in class on Of Mice and Men.
Due tomorrow: double-spaced, at least 250 words, and typed (printed in black ink) or written in blue or black ink.