1. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 1 Free Powerpoint Templates Of Mice and Men Curley’s Wife

2. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 2 TITLE: Curley’s Wife TEPEE We are learning to... Select quotes that can link character to theme Skills for Life: Questioning – how and why? Learning Objectives

3. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 3 You should now have a range of quotes for Curley’s wife. Including a Top 5...

4. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 4 Now we need to write about her... Technique Evidence Purpose Explanation Extension

5. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 5 How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife as a lonely character? 6 sections – perfect! Skilled work will Identify features of Steinbeck’s use of language with some explanation of layers of meaning. Have some links between Curley’s wife and loneliness Excellent work will Have a detailed explanation, with appropriate terminology, of how language and linguistic features are used with a develop perceptive identification of layers of meaning Show sophisticated links to language used about and by Curley’s wife that show her to be a lonely character

6. T The author’s use of language / words / tone of voice is significant. Imagery is significant in this section. The imagery of.... is especially significant in this section. The author uses setting to convey... The characterisation of... is developed in this section. Structurally, this section is significant. E We can see this in the quotation... We hear the character described as... The word... demonstrates this. Arguably, the most significant words are... and... The image of the... is crucial to our understanding. P The author seems to be suggesting... The author is, perhaps, exploring the idea of... The author is explaining, illustrating, uncovering, hiding, illuminating, developing, E The words suggest / imply / convey... This word / phrase / image / character makes me think of... because... This conveys feelings of... because.... The word / image contains several ideas. For example... E The author seems to be exploring the them / idea of... From one perspective we could say... From another we might consider... Developing the interpretation further, we could argue that... This links with..... This idea is repeated when......

7. Steinbeck uses language to show Curley’s wife to be a lonely character. Steinbeck describes the character talking as ‘her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away’ The author seems to be suggesting that Curley’s wife is desperate for someone to talk to. The word ‘tumbled’ suggests the desperation of Curley’s wife to talk to someone as it seems they are falling out without any clear thought. The author seems to be exploring the idea that loneliness makes characters so desperate that this makes them unable to communicate properly.

8. Steinbeck uses language to show Curley’s wife to be a lonely character. Steinbeck describes the character talking as ‘her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away’ The author seems to be suggesting that Curley’s wife is desperate for someone to talk to. The word ‘tumbled’ suggests the desperation of Curley’s wife to talk to someone as though her words are falling out. Steinbeck’s addition of the ‘listener could be taken ways’ also suggests a detachment as Lennie simply becomes a listener, not someone to share a conversation with, and that he will be ‘taken away’ seems inevitable; he forms the function of a listener throughout the novel and alleviates some of the character’s loneliness, but this in turn highlights the bleak loneliness of the characters. The author seems to be exploring the idea that loneliness makes characters so desperate that this makes them unable to communicate properly thereby accentuating their loneliness.

9. How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife as a lonely character? 6 sections – perfect! Skilled work will Identify features of Steinbeck’s use of language with some explanation of layers of meaning. Have some links between Curley’s wife and loneliness Excellent work will Have a detailed explanation, with appropriate terminology, of how language and linguistic features are used with a develop perceptive identification of layers of meaning Show sophisticated links to language used about and by Curley’s wife that show her to be a lonely character

10. Peer assess against success criteria Do not write, ‘yeah, great! Think you should get an R3!’. It needs to be linked to the success criteria. www............................................. ebi................................................ Now improve.

11. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 11 Curley’s wife And she continued to struggle and her eyes were wide with terror. He shook her then, and he was angry with her. "Don't you go yellin'," he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.

12. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 12 Speculate Why does Steinbeck make it difficult for the reader to pity Curley’s Wife? What would he have done if he wanted to the reader to feel sorry for her?