John Steinbeck Webquest
Essential Learnings:
- Students will apply appropriate strategies and skills to understand a variety of texts.
- Students will appreciate that literature provides an understanding of human experience.
- Students will use critical thinking skills to evaluate a variety of texts.
- Students have read, discussed, and analyzed Of Mice and Men.
Procedure:
- Students will use suggested websites as well as internet searches to answer the following questions.
Evaluation:
- Students will be evaluated on:
- answering questions correctly
- answering questions in complete sentences
- showing evaluation and synthesis skills for the last question (must be two or more sentences)
- writing neatly on loose-leaf with a proper heading OR
- typing the answers, double-spaced, NO COPYING AND PASTING (plagiarism)!
- The following websites will help with some answers. You may also use search engines (google or yahoo) to find other answers.
http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
http://www.infopoint.com/mry/orgs/steinbeck/index.html
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novella
Answer the following questions:
- When was Steinbeck born?
- Where did he first attend college?
- What was his first novel?
- What was his job during WWII?
- In what year did he win the Nobel Prize for literature?
- Describe Steinbeck’s friendship with Edward Ricketts.
- Describe the effect of Steinbeck's relationship with Ricketts (how did this friendship impact Steinbeck?). Give at least two specific examples.
- How did Ricketts die?
- For what book did he receive the Pulitzer Prize Fiction Award?
- What is a novella?
- How many times has Of Mice and Men been made into a movie?
- Who was Steinbeck’s second wife?
- How many times was Steinbeck married?
- How many kids did he have? Girls or boys?
- What factors, places, and events impacted Steinbeck’s writing most profoundly? (this question must be in answered in more than two sentences)
