1. Common errors with analysis…
Being too narrative/re-telling
Not analysing quotations – make sure you name the technique – never ‘this shows’. What shows?
Vague
Need supporting quotations
Don’t use overlong quotations
Authorial intention

2. George and Lennie and their types of relationship: Master – Dog Father – Son Brotherly Companionship Mutually beneficial Loving We found quotations for these last time… Can you find two that demonstrate George and Lennie have an unusual relationship for the time the novella was written? Think about itinerant workers.
Unusual

3. If you’re targeted a B OR if you want to challenge yourself:
Point – What are you trying to say?
Evidence – Choose a strong quotation from within the text which supports your point. One or two words. Use quotation marks.
Explain – What is the significance of this? What effect does it have on the reader? What does it tell us about the characters?
If you’re targeted a B OR if you want to challenge yourself:
Discourse marker – Links to a further idea OR Extend what you’ve already stated OR Possible alternate perspective.
Further Exploration – Further reasons explained in detail. How does what you’ve said link to the rest of the novel? Is there another point of view? What effect does it have on the reader? How does this create a turning point in the novel?

4. George and Lennie’s relationship
Why does George get angry with Lennie? Do you blame him?
How do you think Lennie feels about George?
When and in what ways does Lennie demonstrate intelligence?
Why do you think George stays with Lennie?
Worksheets Five and Six accompany this slide.

5. DON’T DISCUSS WITH YOUR PARTNER.
8 mins
POST IT.
Bell Work!
Master - Dog
Father - Son
Mutually beneficial
Loving
Companionship
Unusual
Brotherly
You have been given a post it with a relationship type on it. You need to use a blank post its on your desk and find two quotations to support this relationship. One per post it.
DON’T DISCUSS WITH YOUR PARTNER.

6. 5 mins
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ALL – Will understand how to use PEE and choose significant quotations to support your answers.
MOST – Will be able to explore the relationship between George and Lennie using confident and developed analysis achieving band 4.
SOME – May be able to explore the relationship between George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men showing sophisticated and detailed analysis achieving band 5.

7. You’ve already got a good idea of what’s going on.
You’ve already discussed Lennie and George’s relationship.
You understand how unusual they are.
You have seen their relationship demonstrated:
George and Lennie’s dream.
Lennie getting aggressive defending George.
George looking out for Lennie – Curly, work cards, mice.
George being proud of how hard Lennie can work.
George telling Lennie the story over and over.
George sticking with Lennie
Now we need to look at language.

8. George and Lennie’s relationship
2 mins
POST IT.
George and Lennie’s relationship E P
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world”
Unusual ?
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you…”
This exercise is designed to encourage students to think about the novel’s most important relationship. You may in particular wish to prompt your class to consider how George and Lennie’s relationship resembles the parent/child or master/dog relationship.
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If you’re targeted a B then think of two types of friendship your quote fits into.
Work in your pairs!

9. Write in full sentences!
What do we learn about their relationship from the word choices within these quotes:
If you’re targeted a B:
“Poor bastard”
“So you forgot that awready, did you? I got to tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ you’re a crazy bastard!”
“Think I’d let you carry your own work card?”
If you’re targeted a C:
‘Lennie’s closed hand slowly obeyed’
“Good boy”
‘Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly’
Write in full sentences!
10 mins
Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings.

10. Miss Browett’s PEE paragraph.
Describe and discuss the relationship between George and Lennie.
Miss Browett’s PEE paragraph.
Opening - The relationship between George and Lennie is shown as a complicated one; they share a strange, many-sided friendship. This relationship is not only strange due to the huge differences between the men but also within the social context in which the book the book is set.
5 mins

11. Evidence – Steinbeck first uses the character George to show the reader how unusual George and Lennie’s relationship is. George explains how: ‘guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world’.

12. Development – Due to both the characters being so dissimilar and the description of ranch workers as ‘the loneliest guys in the world’ readers may question Steinbeck’s pairing of this unlikely couple. Through the use of the cold, hollow and unforgiving word ‘loneliest’ a sad and lonesome tone is set that remains throughout the novel; George and Lennie are not lonely because of their relationship with each other, however, without each other the reader knows this would be their fate.

13. If you’re targeted a B OR if you want to challenge yourself:
Discourse marker - Perhaps Steinbeck uses this word to show just how cruel the life of an itinerant worker was. The men were not just lonely, but the ‘loneliest guys in the world’. However, there is hope: ‘But not us’. This short sentence shows both how important George and Lennie’s friendship is and how unusual. The reader already sees how fragile and remarkable this friendship is, and perhaps begins to feel a foreboding sense that a friendship such as this is not destined to survive within the harsh climate of the Great Depression.

14. We’ve created the start of an essay...
Opening - The relationship between George and Lennie is shown as a complicated one; they share a strange, multifaceted friendship. This relationship is not only strange due to the huge differences between the men but also within the social context in which the book the book is set.
Evidence – Steinbeck first uses the protagonist George to show the reader how unusual George and Lennie’s relationship is. George describes, almost ‘rhythmically’, how: ‘guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world’.
Explain – Due to both the characters being so dissimilar and the description of ranch workers as ‘the loneliest guys in the world’ readers may question Steinbeck’s pairing of this unlikely couple. Through the use of the cold, hollow and unforgiving word ‘loneliest’ a sad and lonesome tone is set that remains throughout the novel; George and Lennie are not lonely because of their relationship with each other, however, without each other the reader knows this would be their fate.
Discourse marker - Perhaps Steinbeck uses this word to show just how cruel the life of an itinerant worker was. The men were not merely lonely, but the ‘loneliest guys in the world’. However, there is hope: ‘But not us’. This short sentence encapsulates both how important George and Lennie’s friendship is and how unusual. The reader already perceives how fragile and remarkable this friendship is, and perhaps begins to feel a foreboding sense that a friendship such as this is not destined to survive within the harsh climate of the Great Depression.
Point2 - Additionally, this complex relationship is shown to be not only unusual but often difficult. This causes the reader to further question George and Lennie’s relationship.
Evidence2 – Steinbeck reveals the difficulties the friendship causes George on many occasions throughout the novella. George repeatedly airs his frustrations: ‘I never get any peace. If I was alone, I could live so easy’.
TADA!

15. Describe and discuss the relationship between George and Lennie.
15 mins
Task
Brotherly
Companionship
Mutually beneficial
Describe and discuss the relationship between George and Lennie.
Loving
Unusual
Father - Son
Master - Dog
Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings.

16. Peer assessment! A* A B C 5 mins SOPHISTICATED; IMPRESSIVE
Sophisticated interpretation
Sophisticated engagement
Sophisticated and detailed analysis of language and structure
Perceptive and mature comments A
CONFIDENT; ASSURED
Confident and developed interpretations
Engagement with ideas
Analyses language and structure convincingly
Peer assessment! B
CLEAR; CONSISTENT
Clear evidence of understanding
Explain ideas clearly
Able to explore significant elements
Understand features of language C
Some
Shows awareness of meanings
Aware of some of writers ideas
Uses quotations
Make some relevant comments
5 mins

17. How confident do you feel with PEE?
Why?
Not very confident.
In the middle…
Confident!
5 mins