You can have your metaphorical rabbits with these great lesson plans.
(Since you’re here for a lesson plan, I’ll make it easy for you: Of Mice and Men Imagery Handout or this Characterization Lesson Plan in OMM Handout.)
They had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the other. Both were dressed in school administrator skirts and in school administrator coats with brass buttons. Both carried black, shapeless binders and both carried a string of red pens slung over their shoulders. The first administrator was small and quick, ready to mark you down for every little mistake. Behind her walked her opposite, a huge woman, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.
Luckily you had these Of Mice and Men lesson plans, an entire unit of Of Mice and Men lesson plans, so you wouldn’t get the proverbial shot in the back of the head after crumbling up your review and throwing it across the principal’s desk.
These 10 lesson plans are just a small sample of what’s in this 91-page pdf Of Mice and Men unit plan. This thing is awesome. All you’ll need to do is make copies and do your thing.
10 Of Mice and Men Lesson Plans I’ve Actually Used in a Real Classroom with Real Students
Here are 10 lesson plans for Of Mice and Men that will help you dominate the classroom and buck barley with the best of them.
- Of Mice and Men/Great Depression Research Assignment. This is an excellent intro to the novel and the time period. Just click the link and you’ll be ready to go.
- Steinbeck Biography and Migrant Workers handout. Use these informational articles to teach reading for information skills. Instead of just answering questions like we all did in 1985, instruct students to highlight where they found the information and be prepared to discuss it.
- The OMM Goals Lesson Plan. Lennie and George have dreams, dreams that get crushed like a giant man crushing the neck of a young girl with curls in her hair. Help your students to set goals and establish a plan that’s a little more detailed than borrowing money from a crippled swamper.
- Rhetorical Precis with Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Here’s a man who understood the power of a dream.
- Animal Imagery in Of Mice and Men Lesson Plan. Lennie is described frequently by animal imagery. Animals on a ranch get slaughtered. Lennie goes to a ranch.
- Foreshadowing in Of Mice and Men lesson plan. I recommend a chart for this one. Read chapter 1. Identify specific examples of foreshadowing. Make a prediction.
- Characterization Lesson Plan in Of Mice and Men. Creating a handy chart to keep track of the individuals on the ranch helps students identify methods of character development and keep track of important characters. If you click on the characterization link and scrolled down a bit, you’ll see a free chart download in MS Word.
- Found Poem. A found poem uses exact words from a literary work to express the work’s theme.
- Of Mice and Men Setting and Structure. Analyze the circular plot structure in Of Mice and Men and feel really smart.
- Allegory in Of Mice and Men. Reading Of Mice and Men as an allegory provides a deeper understanding of the novel’s themes.
Last Updated on February 3, 2021 by Trenton Lorcher
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