Of Mice and Men Narrative Assignment

Post date: Dec 21, 2017 1:22:8 AM

Of Mice and Men Extension Narrative Writing Assignment—Rewriting a Scene

*****Limit yourself to 20 minutes for this task.

*****Take this home and bring it back Thursday if you don’t complete it in class.

*****Use your own notebook paper.

One writing task you will be asked to complete on this year’s Milestone EOC in American Literature is to write a narrative that either extends beyond the ending of the text you are given or changes the point-of-view. In this assignment, you are asked to do that with a scene from Of Mice and Men.

Task: Go back to the fight scene at the end of chapter three (pp. 61-64). As written, Steinbeck tells it using a third-person narrator who is fairly detached from the action, just describing what occurs.

Retell this scene, changing the perspective to a first-person narrator who is actually part of the scene. This would include Carlson, Candy, Curley, George, Slim and Lennie.

As you write, you should utilize narrative strategies that the state’s test graders will be looking for such as:

· Characterization (development of characters through physical description, dialogue, actions, reactions of other characters, etc.)

· Dialogue between characters—remember to use quotation marks around what is said and to start a new paragraph, indenting, each time the speaker changes.

· Showing the action through vivid description of what characters do—don’t just tell what they do, show how they do things and what they do.

· Describing the setting with imagery that puts the reader there.

Here is a link to the book if needed: http://www.scuc.txed.net/webpages/twhitson/files/complete%20novel.pdf