Today’s Objectives

• Connect themes- OMM and “To a Mouse”• Analyze diction in OMM• Discuss and analyze imagery

• Closing Task: Sunlight chart

Warm-up

• Read the poem on the handout and answer questions 1-3 on your warm up sheet (please do NOT write on the handout).

• Discuss its thematic connection to the novella.

Circular plot- comparison

• Read the opening of chapter 1- just the first two paragraphs where the setting is described. Then, read the first six paragraphs of chapter 6, where the river is once again described.

• Make a T-chart with your group in which you compare the diction used in each description. How do certain words change the mood?

Imagery

• Steinbeck was known for his simple yet powerful imagery. There are several types of imagery used repeatedly in the text: trees/leaves, animal, sunlight/darkness, etc.

• We will track the use of sunlight imagery through the text.