This is a webquest for the novel "Of Mice and Men." It is designed for
grade 10 college prepatory students. The Massachusetts Curriculum Framework
Standards that this lesson covers are as follows:
Standard 1: Discussion- Students will use agreed-upon rules for informal and
formal discussions in small and large groups.
Standard 2: Questioning, Listening, and Contributing- Students will pose
questions, listen to the ideas of others, and contribute their own
information or ideas in group discussions or interviews in order to aquire
their knowledge.
Standard 3: Oral Presentation- Students will make oral presentations which
demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the
iformation to be conveyed.
Standard 8: Understanding a Text- Students will identify the basic facts and
main ideas in a text and use them as the basis for interpretation.
Standard 9: Making Connections- Students will deepen their understandinng of
a literary or non-literary work by relateing it to its contemporary context
or historical background.
Standard 11: Theme- Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of
theme in a literary work and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
Standard 12: Fiction- Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge
of the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from the text
to support their understanding.
Standard 19: Writing- Students will write with a clear focus, coherent
organization, and sufficient detail.
Standard 24: Research- Students will gather information from a variety of
sources, analyze and evaluate the quality of the information they obtain,
and use it to answer their own questions.
Standard 27: Media Production- Students will design and create coherent
media productions (audio, video, television, multimedia, Internet, emerging
technologies) with a clear controlling idea, adequate detail, and
appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and medium.
