Instructions for class blog postings - "Of Mice and Men"

For each reading in Of Mice and Men, two students will be assigned to post discussion questions. If it is not your day to write a question, then your job is to choose one of the discussion questions and write a response.

Writing Discussion Questions:·
· Entitle your post “Of Mice and Men Ch. __ .” You may include something about your question as well (e.g. “Of Mice and Men Ch. 1: Lennie’s dead mouse”) to introduce your topic if you wish. Type your full question in the body of the post.
· Discussion questions must be posted on the blog by 10:00 p.m. two school nights before the reading is due (e.g. by 10 on Tuesday for reading due Thursday) in order to allow your classmates time to respond.
· You will be graded on your questions. They should be thoughtful, interesting, and designed to provoke excellent discussion and debate!

Writing Responses to the Questions:
· Choose one of the posted discussion questions and write a journal entry – 150 to 300 words – in response. Read what others have written and respond to their thoughts as well as to the original question. Try to be additive, not repetitive; bring new ideas into the dialogue.
· Use details from the book to support your response.
· Proofread your work.
· Post your response on the blog by the beginning of class. Add it to the blog as a comment under the question you are discussing, not as a new post, so that questions and discussion will be grouped together. You can write your response in the Comment box or write it in Word and copy it. Either way, you will need to log into the blog before you can post.
• Responses will be graded for thoroughness, thoughtfulness, clarity, and insight into the book.

For the adventurous who want to try a little HTML in their comments:
· To italicize something, put < i > before what you want italicized and < /i > after it. For example, if you type:
"I think you are an < i > incredible < /i > Guitar Hero player."
then the following will appear on the blog:
"I think you are an incredible Guitar Hero player."
· Similarly, to bold something, put < b > before and < /b > after.

Chapter 1

Lennie and George are a great couple of friends, because I feel like they make a great couple. Even though they may have their differences some times, they still complete each other in their own ways. George is more of the intelligent person especially since Lennie is mentally challenged. Lenny cares about many things, but a lot of times he doesn’t know his own strength. This is evident especially with the whole mouse thing. Even though the mouse was dead and helpless, Lennie still wanted to care for it, and tend to it, because he thought that would be helping, and it might have made him feel good. George does care, but he cares more for Lennie, and things that matter, rather than dead animals.

My initial response to Lenny was that he was a very sweet, pretty dopey person. He also has some mental disability's. He follows George everywhere and thinks of him like his hero. He also is so big and clumsy that he kills things by accident. George seems to get really annoyed at Lenny and wants him there but at the same time wants him to leave him alone. He also is always babysitting Lenny and gets mad that he always gets him in trouble.

Of Mice and Men Chapter One

I had to re-read this section twice because the first time, I was't sure what I had read. But the part about Lennie picking up the mouse as kinda weird. I think he may have some form of mental retardation. He seems pretty sweet though. I think of him as being younger than George becaus George looks out for Lennie. George seems kinda paranoid and seems like he may have had a rough life. He seems to walk around with a dark cloud above him. Whereas Lennie seems to be off in his own world. I think they subtle note of their past in the town was very informative to why they were on the run and what the circumstances of the story are. I already have a pretty good idea about the characters, now I want to find out what happens at the ranch.
Also, I love the part when they talk about their dream future-the rabbit thing is so sweet, especially when Lennie says at the end he wants different colored rabbits.

chapter 1

The story started with describing the environment. It makes me so peaceful and relax.
However, the characters are not just peaceful.
George is always histeric and be too mean to Lennie. He easily lost his temper and he always shouting to Lennie.
Lennie is kind of quiet but has a little idiosyncracy. He wanted to have a pet for mouse but he killed it by an accident.
I thought that George and Lennie are not matching each other, but also they kind of blend each o ther and tried to understand and cheer up.
I am not sure about their past life but I think that they have different personality but they support each other.

Mice and Men characters

Well, when I first started reading the book I thought, "Oh, this is a very nice setting so the characters might be very nice." I guess you can say I was wrong. I felt like Lennie was a little slow and that George was his caretaker. I understood that Lennie was being taken care of by his aunt and then she died, so George started taking care of him. At times I thought George was sweet and then all of a sudden he would snap at Lennie and call him a stupid bastard and what not. I thought Lennie was kind of cute. He wanted a mouse but he kept killing them because they would bite him and he would pinch their heads too hard. I kind of found that disturbing and cute at the same time. I'm liking the book so far and I think it will just get better. I am wondering how it will be at their new job, since Lennie got them "fired" from the last one. I put fired in quotations because they weren't actually asked to leave but they did have to flee, so they couldn't exactly go back to that job. I just hope George becomes a little nicer towards Lennie because Lennie can't help it he is the way he is and you can tell he is trying for George.

Chapter One in Of Mice & Men

I already the book so I already no alot about the characters and in this chapter it seems as though George is extremly bossy and sort of inconsiderate because of the way he treats Lennie. ALso Lennie is really sweet he just has a lot of issues that help you later understand him more as a person. Thats why at this point you can't really make your mind up about these two just yet but as you read further it gets more interesting. Also I did the author did a great job setting us up for the scene in the book because it really helps you imagine everything around you.