Final Project Of Mice and Men

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Final Project

Of Mice and Men

Choose two of the following activities for your final project (no more worksheets, but options!).  All work must include good writing practices, must be typed and free of errors.

1.  Write a newspaper article that would appear in the local newspaper the day after Lennie and Curley’s wife are killed.

2. Write the conversation that George has with Slim over drinks after Lennie’s death.

3. React to the novel by writing a poem.  Your speaker might be Lennie or George or another character – or you. 

4. Rewrite a scene as it might have happened if another decision had been made or something else had happened.  For example:

a)    What if Candy had come in while Lennie was patting Curley’s wife’s head?

b)   What if Crooks hadn’t backed down when Curley’s wife turned nasty?

c)    What if the searchers had gotten to Lennie before George did?

5. Add a short episode to the story in which you appear.  (You might be a worker at the ranch, someone George meets in town, a relative of one of the men etc.)  How would you participate in the story?

6. Write a flashback scene to an earlier time that didn’t appear in the novel, but might have – such as Curley and his wife’s engagement or a scene from the days when Aunt Clara was taking care of George.

7. Write a detailed description of a day on the ranch.  Write it as though you are one of workers, you can be a character already in the book or you can be yourself.  You may want to describe what it was like the day George and Lennie arrived or a typical day in the field with them.  You may also want to write about George and Lennie’s last day on the ranch.