Extend your Learning @ Bishop Justus

Miss L. Hamilton

Extend your Learning @ Bishop Justus

Lesson 2Of Mice and Men

LQ: Am I able to make a variety of effective notes

about chapter 1?

Homework to extend learning... Homework to extend learning... Homework to extend learning... Homework to extend learning... Homework to extend learning... Homework to extend learning... Homework to extend learning...

Miss L. Hamilton


Homework Reminder: In pairs research an area of 1930s America and be ready to present your information during Monday’s lesson:Dust BowlHoovervillesItinerant WorkersAmerican Dream Wall Street CrashGreat DepressionSteinbeck’s early life

Due: Monday

Literary terms: onomatopoeia, misogynistic language, animalistic imagery, colloquial abbreviated dialogue, innuendo, well-chosen adverbs, proleptic irony, extended

metaphor, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, racist language Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, reveals, illustrates,

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LQ: Am I able to make a variety of notes about chapter 1? LQ: Am I able to make a variety of notes about chapter 1? LQ: Am I able to make a variety of notes about chapter 1? LQ: Am I able to make a variety of notes about chapter 1?

Good Progress: I will be able to analyse the language Steinbeck uses to present themes or characters

Excellent progress: I will be able to analyse the language Steinbeck uses to present themes or characters using sophisticated

terminology

Outstanding progress: I will be able to analyse the language Steinbeck uses to present themes or characters using

sophisticated terminology and understanding different layers of meaning

How much progress will you make today?


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highlightsStarter: Terminology test…Do you know what all of the literary terms below mean?

Any you don’t know write in your glossary in the back of your book!

Choose yellow(B), green (A) or blue (A*)

Don’t forget to throw a few terms from above in!


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highlightsGroups of four – each has the followingfocus while we read…How does Steinbeck present…

Theme: friendshipTheme: isolationTheme: dreamsTheme: violenceTheme: disabilityCharacter: GeorgeCharacter: Lennie

As we read, note the quotations that you think are effective… EXTENSION:

Can you identify any literary technique

Steinbeck is using in your quotations?


40


Main Task:

Continue reading Chapter 1

Don’t forget to add to your notes...



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EXTENSION:Can you identify any

literary technique Steinbeck is using in your

quotations?


40


Group Reflection:

Choose the six most impressive quotationsfrom your group and label the technique(6 mins)

FEEDBACK –

While we feedback – other groups prepare to argue or extend if asked to!



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EXTENSION:Can you identify any

literary technique Steinbeck is using in your

quotations?


40


Can you, as a group, write a “PERFECT PARAGRAPH”

Key ingredients:P ointE videnceT echniqueE ffectR eader



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Excellent progress: I will be able to analyse the language Steinbeck uses to present themes or characters using

sophisticated terminology

Outstanding progress: I will be able to analyse the language Steinbeck uses to present themes or characters

using sophisticated terminology and understanding different layers of meaning

A* EXTENSION:Can you embed more than one quotation to build an

argument?


40


Peer assess paragraphs



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Excellent progress: I will be able to analyse the language Steinbeck uses to present themes or characters using

sophisticated terminology



A* EXTENSION:Can you embed more than one quotation to build an

argument?



Excellent progress: I will be able to analyse the language Steinbeck uses to present themes or characters using sophisticated

terminology



Self-assess learning today

Miss L. Hamilton


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