Sunday, December 1, 2013

Monday: "Smile or Die" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Today we will start class with this video.

Use the following guiding question to respond to it:  What words or phrases stand out to me?  

Last week we read Steinbeck's essay "The Harvest Gypsies."  Many of you asked this question after reading it:

Why has this family given up?  

With your partner, reread the text, looking for evidence that suggests why the family Steinbeck describes seems to have lost all hope.  Then, see if you can note a connection between the essay and the video.

Starting the book:

Today we will read as much as we can of Chapter 1 in Of Mice and Men.  Your task today is to gather details in the text that tell you important information about the two main characters George Milton and Lennie Smalls.

When we finish tomorrow, you and your partner will try to come up with a good text-specific question to ask about any detail in Chapter 1.

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