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Of Mice and Men - In Plain English
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Of Mice and Men - In Plain English

Everything Your English Teacher Wants You to Know
Created byEamonn O'Brien
Last updated 4/2022
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Literary Analysis of the text
  • Plot, Theme, Character Analysis, Context
  • Key ideas, concepts and interactions of the story
  • What Middle and High School English teachers want their students to understand

Course content

8 sections • 24 lectures • 5h 7m total length

  • Introduction1:25

    Learn to decode books by unpacking context and character development, understand why events unfold, and participate confidently in class discussions with clear insights.

  • Why Read Literature?3:24

    Develop critical and analytical reading skills through literature, and learn to decode language and ideas to understand human beings, psychology, and the human condition.

  • Context3:26

    Place literature in its historical, religious, and philosophical contexts to understand the author's era and the world that shapes the text and its meaning.

  • What We Look for When Reading Literature7:47

    Explore how to read literature by focusing on character, setting, conflict, imagery, and figurative language. Analyze context and theme to understand the human condition and how authors craft meaning.

  • Getting to Know Characters2:27

    Explore how a text reveals who the characters are, what drives them, and why they act. Develop an emotional connection by empathizing with protagonists and antagonists and understanding sympathy.

  • Connotation vs. Denotation5:07

    Learn how denotation and connotation shape readers' emotions by using adjectives and imagery to make characters feel, smell, hear, and fear, not just see.

  • Annotations20:27

    Learn annotation to identify what's important, slow your reading, and take margin notes to connect pages and ideas. Use underlines, boxes, and highlighting to mark what's unusual, foreshadowing, and relationships.

  • How to Analyze Literature12:49

    Learn to analyze literature by following clues across scenes, assembling evidence to reveal author intent, such as George and Lennie's love and Crooks' struggle.

Requirements

  • Access to a copy of the book (any version is fine).
  • A basic understanding of the structure of fiction literature (i.e. plot, literary devices (e.g. imagery, simile, metaphor), etc))

Description

This course is a page by page literary analysis and literary deconstruction of the classic Steinbeck novel “Of Mice and Men,” taught by a Middle and High School English teacher with over 15 years of classroom teaching experience. This is the information I teach my students in my English classes. It is an entire English class walking you through the analysis and deconstruction of the book, step by step, page by page, line by line, with the emphasis on making it understandable.


The introduction includes a contextual discussion of the historical time period of the novel to help you make sense of what is happening and why, as well as an understanding of the meaning of the title.


Each chapter includes a plot summary, an in-depth analysis of the characters and the story as a whole, as well as a write-up of critical quotes and an explanation as to why they are important. Focus is given to understanding how and why information is relevant and important, and how it relates to other parts of the story.


In addition, the course is taught with an emphasis on noting and understanding the key ideas, concepts and insights that a Middle or High School English teacher is looking for you to gain from reading and analyzing the text.

Who this course is for:

  • Middle School, High School, College students, or adult learners
  • Anyone who want to understand the deeper meaning behind the book
  • Anyone who is reading the book for a class but doesn't really understand what the teacher is talking about

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