1. Work in pairs. TWO topics per group.
  2. 4 classes* to prepare.
  3. 5 minute presentation, maximum (60 sec. window).
  4. Both partners’ contributions must be obvious.
  5. Consider the best medium to share ideas.
    • Screen-based presentation?
    • Handouts? Materials must be in my possession by end of class 2.
    • You may share more information than you present.
    • Make sure you provice citations for your research.

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    1.Great depression – financial collapse.

    2.United States (and Canada) and “the dirty thirties”.

    3.Displaced farmers – “harvest gypsies” & California.

    4.Immigrants in California, 1930’s.

    5.Salinas valley, 1930s & now.

    6.Steinbeck himself – tie to Of Mice and Men?

    7.Steinbeck’s other works – patterns in topic, situations?

    8.Steinbeck’s writing style.

    9.“Isms” – racism, sexism,  ableism, in early 1900s.

    10.The novella as a literary outlet.

    11.“To A Mouse” by Robbie Burns.

    12.John Steinbeck and the Modernism literary movement(?)

    –Unifying themes, ideas. Contemporaries?

    13.Why is Of Mice and Men considered a classic?
     

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