Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Special Projects
 Grouping by interest
• Actors
• Artists
• Writers
• History/Social Studies
• Sports
• Music
 Project Choices
• Do a picture story about 2 scenes from
the story (1-2 People)
• Make a power point presentation about
the story (1-2 People)
• Research projects (1-2 people)
• Do a diorama of the story (1-2 people)
• Do a Trailer Video (4 people)
 Idea # 1 (Actors) Role-play
• Role-play your favorite 2 scenes of
the story, “Of Mice and Men, (4
people)
• Have a narrator who tells the story
• Other students are the characters
• Bring props, clothes, harpoons, etc
• You can change the ending
Idea # 2 Artists and Writers
(2 people, 1 artist/1 writer)
• Do a picture story about the story
• Write story/ Explain what is
happening
• Insert a dialogue when needed
• Draw pictures (any artists here?)
• It can be designed like a comic book
• Use your digital camera’s do make this
picture story
 Artists and Writers
Idea # 3 (2 people)
• Make a power point presentation about
the story
• Your favorite scenes in the story
• Write the story/ Explain what is
happening
• Insert a dialogue when needed
• Download pictures
• Sounds/Animation
• Music
 Remember
• Make it interesting
• Write bullets not books
• No more than 5 bullets per picture
• You need to present not read
• Power Point is an oral presentation
• Not a writing project
• Again use bullets
 Research projects (2 people)
1. The Great Depression
– The Causes
– The important People
– The Dust Bowl

2. About the Author/John Steinbeck

3. Your own ideas
 Life during the Great
Depression
• Do case studies/Eye Witness-Survivor
Accounts
• Explain what life was like
• In the cities
• In the Hoovervilles
• The life on the tenant farms
• The Roaring 20’s-The Boom period
before the Great Fall
 Do Research on a Famous
Person of that Era
• Franklin Delno Roosevelt
• Al Capone
• Henry Ford
• The Roaring 20’s-The Boom period
before the Great Fall
• Prohibition/Bootlegging
 President Herbert Hoover

• The Economic Architect of

• The Hoovervilles
• And The Great Depression
 J. Edgar Hoover
• The Greatest Crime fighter in US
History
• An out of control maniac who
abused his power
• And kept files/dirt on the most
prominent politician/even
presidents
• And dressed in Women’s clothes
 Al Capone

• The big Mafia Boss in

Chicago
• Made millions on Bootleging
• Responsible for the
Valentine’s day massacre
• Made millions on bootlegging
and other
 The Roaring 20’s
• What the life was like
• The Music
• The Fashions
• Compare it to your own music and
culture of today
 Do a Diorama
• This is a diorama of the story
• The story in a box
• One paragraph summary of a scene
• Why is it important
• Two quotations that are important
• Present your diorama
 Internet project

1. Don’t copy from Internet

2. Use Internet as a tool not like
a fool
3. Don’t plagiarize/copy
4. Make it your own
 Movie Trailer
• Of Mice and Men
• Make a trailer shoot (Movie
Preview)
• Important scenes of the book
• Write a dialogue
• Have a narrator/to explain what is
happening (cameraman) (Director)
• Other students are the characters
• Cut and paste ( a book)
• You can change it a little,
• But explain why you do it
 Trailer
• Shoot the scenes with a video
camera/cell phone
• Other students are the characters
• Bring props, clothes, doll, and
arrows, knives, bottles for poison,
etc
• Five people per group
• If you need more later, you can
combine and help each other