1. Of Mice and Men
Day 19

2. Agenda
Read the rest of our novel.
Why the title?
Foreshadowing

3. Free-write
Tell me about a time where you had a difficult decision to make. What did you do in order to decide what should be done?

4. Let’s dive into the text!
Please turn to the bottom of page 51 and wait patiently for further instruction.

5. Significance of Title http://www.essentiallifeskills.net/toamouse.html
While ploughing one of his fields one day, the Ploughman Poet, Robert Burns, happened to disturb a mouse's nest. Upon doing so, he wrote one of his finest and most memorable poems To A Mouse On Turning Up Her Nest with the Plough, more commonly known as To A Mouse. It contains one of the most famous lines ever written by a poet. Below are both Burns’ original poem and a Standard English translation of it.

6. Foreshadowing

7. Foreshadowing
List some events Steinbeck used to foreshadow what happened in our novel.

8. Response writing
What is your response to the novel?