John steinbeck biography powerpoint middle school

Of Mice and Men

Objectives

Students will apply knowledge from multiple subjects to demonstrate mastery of the themes in Of Mice and Men.

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Overview

Passport to Literacy is a cross-curricular project developed at Merryhill School in Milpitas, California, where each grade level chose a work of literature and did a variety of projects related to that novel.

The Merryhill middle school students took on John Steinbeck’s classic book, The Red Pony.

The theme of the project was to examine life on a farm in the 1930s and today. The students broke up into several teams, and each worked on a different aspect of the project.

John steinbeck biography powerpoint middle school

The sixth-grade class composed and illustrated original poems based on farm/ranch life in The Red Pony. The seventh-grade students (under the direction of the math teacher) researched prices of everyday farm items, wages, and land prices.

They then calculated and graphed the rate of change in those values over the last seven decades. Th