Symbiosis / Relationships
UNIT STANDARDS
Essential Questions:
- What are the benefits of having relationships?
- Are all relationships equal?
- How do relationships support our lives?
- What are the trade-offs in relationships?
- What determines the relationships we have?
- How do class, religion, race, and culture affect our relationships?
- What role does empathy play in mutual relationships?
- What place does a dream/vision have in one’s life/relationships?
Unit Questions for Rhetorical Study of Of Mice and Men:
1. What is the thesis, what is the overall argument the author presents?
2. What did the author choose to study? Why?
3. What is the writer’s purpose? To inform? To persuade? To criticize?
4. Who is the author’s intended audience?
5. How does the writer arrange his or her ideas? Chronologically?
6. How does the writer use diction? (Word choice, arrangement, accuracy, is it formal, informal? Technical versus slang?)
7. Does the writer use dialogue? Quotations? Why?
8. Are important terms repeated?
9. What is the sentence structure of text? Are there fragments, run ons? Is it declarative, imperative, exclamatory? What effect does this have?
10. Does the writer use punctuation to create an effect? Italics, underlining, parentheses? Which marks does the writer use, and when?
1. What is the thesis, what is the overall argument the author presents?
2. What did the author choose to study? Why?
3. What is the writer’s purpose? To inform? To persuade? To criticize?
4. Who is the author’s intended audience?
5. How does the writer arrange his or her ideas? Chronologically?
6. How does the writer use diction? (Word choice, arrangement, accuracy, is it formal, informal? Technical versus slang?)
7. Does the writer use dialogue? Quotations? Why?
8. Are important terms repeated?
9. What is the sentence structure of text? Are there fragments, run ons? Is it declarative, imperative, exclamatory? What effect does this have?
10. Does the writer use punctuation to create an effect? Italics, underlining, parentheses? Which marks does the writer use, and when?
References/Handouts:
The Novel - Of Mice & Men
Assignments & Handouts:
- Notes on The Great Depression
- Drawing of Scene "In the Beginning..."
- Character Chart
- Vocabulary Assignment
- Burn's "To A Mouse" Poem and Assignment
- Focus Question on George's Actions
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