1. What is the best book cover?

2. Look at the various book / DVD covers. What do you think the story is going to be about? What do they reveal about the plot / setting / characters?

3. Look at the various book / DVD covers. What do you think the story is going to be about? What do they reveal about the plot / setting / characters?

4. Look at the various book / DVD covers. What do you think the story is going to be about? What do they reveal about the plot / setting / characters?

5. Look at the various book / DVD covers. What do you think the story is going to be about? What do they reveal about the plot / setting / characters?

6. Look at the various book / DVD covers. What do you think the story is going to be about? What do they reveal about the plot / setting / characters?

7. Look at the various book / DVD covers. What do you think the story is going to be about? What do they reveal about the plot / setting / characters?

8. Thinking about the opening to Of Mice and Men Odd One Out? Answers on post-it notes please.

9. Of Mice and Men – GCSE Literature Draw and label the setting. Consider these questions: 1.What are the most important things in the setting? 2.How could they symbolise something more important? 3.How is the setting like a very famous setting in a very, very famous book?

10. Edenic Setting What do you know about the Garden of Eden? Write for one minute in pairs.

11. Edenic Setting The Garden of Eden was the Biblical home of Adam and Eve. Mankind was created here and it is a place of perfect purity. The Devil, in the form of a snake, tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit from the forbidden tree. As a result of this mankind was cast out of the Garden of Eden and made to live on Earth. Steinbeck evokes the Garden of Eden in the opening to the novel. What is Edenic? Why could Steinbeck be using the Garden of Eden?

12. George and Lennie SameDifferent