For the past week, the class and I have been working on our layered curriculum that we are using to express how we feel and what we have learned form our novel Of Mice and Men. I have been working on a poster about what Lennie is always thinking about. I have been making several images to correspond with Lennie's thoughts and ideas. The images represent some things he has encountered, things that George has told him not to forget and there are even a few images based on what he wants in the future. I have also been working on an essay that will help explain the animals and the relations that they have with our characters in the novel. It is a hard essay due to the fact that I need to find a quote from the book to give the twenty facts some substructure. Today in class we went through the proper structure of an essay and what we will be marked on. We will be finished working on our layered curriculum on Tuesday, March 18th 2014.

by Marissa Waatainen

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Reflection

March 11

The novel "Of Mice and Men" in my opinion was an extraodinary novel that was extremely well written especially when it came to the descriptions! John Steinbeck turned the most simpliest things into  something beyond recognition in my daily life. How he described the hills, this changed my thoughts on how I looked at the hills and mountains in B.C . The novel itself gave me new ideas on how to describe more descriptively in the stories I write also on how to add more of a backbone to my stories rather then starting strong and slowly fading away from the story. Also to include the fact that John Steinbeck experienced most of the things he wrote about for example; Lennie was handicapped and Goerge put up with him even though Lennie made his life much more complicated. John himself worked with a handicapped person and yet put up with his handicapped co-worker so in result to me atleast it added more of a "oomph" to reading the story the fact that he experienced it just made me want to read the novel more! Overall the book itself is really really good even though literature novels aren't my thing.

Refection of Aaron McLachlan

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I chose to do a drawing of Lennie because I decided to show my artistic ability by not tracing the picture of Lennie but copying the same idea as the picture I printed. I decided to also sketch the picture because Ive never sketched a picture in my life and decided to try something new. My other reason why I decided to draw Lennie over every other character in the book is because Lennie, in  my opinion is one of the most concentrated character in the book despite the fact that George is just as or slightly less important. Finally, the last reason why I decided to draw Lennie is because I felt it was easy marks considering I have a strong passion for drawing.

by Diego Carvalho

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Last week we finished reading the novel Of Mice and Men, I thought John Steinbeck used really descriptive words which helped make his vision clear of what the town and the people looked like. He put volumes of details in to the appereances and the personality traits of the characters so when we watched the movie the characters were like what Jonh Steinbeck had described of them in the novel. An example of a descriptive scene is when he describes the Salinas River that George and Lennie arrive at on their way to the ranch. In this scene Jonh uses loads of imagery, he uses visual, audio, flavour, scent and kinesthetic

The Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gablian mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees --- willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs amoung them.

by Kaitlyn Clowes

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