Once you have completed your Of Mice and Men Scavenger Hunt, I want you to comment on THIS blog post. Your comment should answer the following questions:
What's something new you learned from your scavenger hunt?
How does this information shape the reading that you've done in Of Mice and Men?
Name one aspect of the story that changed for you from finding out the historical context.
Your comment will be worth 10 points.
Hope Carter Period 7
ReplyDeleteI learned that during the 30s there was a lot of turmoil and people were working really hard for not a lot of money, and prices were higher than wages could afford. It helps becuase I can understand how desperate and in need George and Lennie were, and all the other guys in the camps. They all would work so hard for small amounts of money because it was something. Before it didn't make a lot of sense to me, why they'd travel so far and go through all that work, to work for someone. But now I can understand why they did that and why they were trying so hard to get by.
Amber Johnson
ReplyDelete1. That pricing back then was so strange. You could by an electric washing machine for about the same price of a winter coat, which was only about $30.
2. It helps me connect to the characters to see and feel what life was really like for them back then.
3. I can now see how hard it must have been for George, Lennie, and all the other workers in the book to work so hard and get so little out of it. It showed how hard times were and that even though things were priced cheaply they were payed even less.
Ali Meihls
ReplyDelete1. I learned that prices were so low in this time so people worked for so little.
2. This makes me see how hard George and Lennie had to work just to make a little bit of money in hopes of having a farm of their own one day.
3. My perspective of George and Lennie living on someone else's property changed because I realized they had to do it because they didn't have enough money to go anywhere else.
All straight B.S. Ali.
DeleteTrevor Richardson. P7
ReplyDelete1. I didn't know that Charlie Chaplin ever made a talking film.
2. It gives me insight into the lives and hardships that people in the 30's and 40's went through.
3. Lennie was probably a lot more discriminated against than I thought because of his mental illness becuase people were much more close minded during this era.
What I learned from my savenger hunt is that it is sometimes hard to find information that you need. I also learned that it can be fun to learn about new things in many different ways that you didnt know that you could learn about. The way that it has shaped my reading of mice of men is it gives me a more rounded and heart-breaking feelings that the people had to go through during those hard times. One aspect of the story that changed for me is the actual hardships and struggles that the people had to go through and that they couldn't do nothing about it to change it except wait for the government to change it for them that had to be one of the hardest things that they ever had to do in their life.
ReplyDelete1. I learned that John Steinbeck worked many odd jobs.
ReplyDelete2. This helps me see how hard people back then had to work for their jobs. And I see how little amount of money they earned compared to today.
3. All their hard work doesn't pay off as much as we expect it to today. Their difficult work only paid for meager amounts of food and goods.
Stephanie White, Period 7
ReplyDelete1. I learned that things were really chaotic during the 30's, especially economically. There were high unemployment rates and many people were competing for jobs, money, and food.
2. This information made me understand George's frustration with Lennie a little more. It was hard to get jobs and every time Lennie and George would get a job, Lennie would get in trouble and they would have to leave the job.
3. I was able to see that things were really hard for Lennie and George, they had to live on someone else's land so that they could have shelter and food. They worked for low pay and room and board. This was enough for them to stay alive. This is why they worked so hard to have their own property one day.
Im in pd 7 by the way i didnt put that on top miss clark.
ReplyDelete1. I didn't know that Steinbeck took a excerpt from Robert Burns poem.
ReplyDelete2. Helps me understand what kind of things they were going through.
3. The hard times after the Great Depression.