The Of Mice and Men Philip Allan Literature Guide Teacher Resource Pack provides teachers with all the support they need to teach Of Mice and Men in the context of the new GCSE English Literature specifications. This classroom-based resource is for use throughout the GCSE course to help consolidate students' knowledge, learning and appreciation of the text and will leave students better prepared for their exams.
Covering all aspects of the novel, a whole range of higher- and lower-tier interactive activities, plus extension tasks for homework, can be used before, during and after students have read the text. Once students are familiar with the text, further exam revision activities, tailored to each exam specification, will ensure your students can reach the highest grades. A separate section of activities and advice for students who are studying the novel for the controlled assessment is also included.
This fully photocopiable pack will:

- save hours of preparation time - provide an invaluable source of thoroughly researched material - create opportunities for a more student-centred learning approach - provide a solution to specialist staff absenceThe pack comes with free access to a website where teachers can share teaching ideas and download extra materials, plus a free CD with PDFs of the whole pack to enable printing out the activity sheets as an alternative to photocopying.
Other pack titles available in the series are:

- Lord of the Flies - To Kill a Mockingbird - A View from the Bridge - An Inspector Calls - Pride and Prejudice - Romeo and Juliet - Anita and Me - The Woman in Black - AQA Anthology: Moon on the Tides (Conflict and Relationships)Each of the packs in the series has been produced in conjunction with a Philip Allan Literature Guide (for GCSE), written for students as a course companion and revision tool. The ISBN for the Philip Allan Literature Guide (for GCSE): Of Mice and Men is 978-1-4441-0872-9.

This book is part of a book series called Philip Allan Literature Guide .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 200 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Hodder Education .

By Caroline Bentley-Davis, Najoud Ensaff, Steve Eddy, Matthew Tett, Gareth Calway and Nicola Copitch

This book has the following chapters: Introduction Background 1 The title of the novel 2 The Depression and the American Dream Plot notes and activities Section 1 The pool in the river Section 1 George and Lennie make their entry Section 2 The bunk house Section 2 Curley's wife and Slim Section 3 George and Slim, Candy's dog Section 3 The dream farm and the fight Section 4 Lennie visits Crooks Section 4 Crooks has more company Section 5 Death in the barn Section 5 The end of the dream Section 6 Full circle Structure notes and activities 1 Structure 2 Structure plan (version 1) 3 Structure plan (version 2) 4 Structure plan (version 3) Whole-text activities Character 1 Character sheet 2 Lennie: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 3 Lennie: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 4 Lennie: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 5 Lennie Small 6 George: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 7 George: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 8 George: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 9 George Milton 10 Candy: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 11 Candy: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 12 Candy: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 13 Candy 14 The boss 15 Curley: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 16 Curley: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 17 Curley: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 18 Curley 19 Curley's wife: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 20 Curley's wife: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 21 Curley's wife: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 22 Curley's wife 23 Slim: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 24 Slim: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 25 Slim: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 26 Slim 27 Crooks: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 28 Crooks: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 29 Crooks: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 30 Crooks 31 Carlson: matching character traits with evidence (version 1) 32 Carlson: matching character traits with evidence (version 2) 33 Carlson: matching character traits with evidence (version 3) 34 Carlson 35 Character review 36 Character relationships 37 Character relationships as shown by a key scene: the fight 38 Character references 39 Acting the part Themes 40 An overview of themes in Of Mice and Men 41 Theme quotations (version 1) 42 Theme quotations (version 2) 43 Loneliness 44 Friendship 45 Shattered dreams 46 Injustice 47 The working man Style 48 Style preview 49 Setting and atmosphere 50 Dialogue 51 Description 52 Viewpoint 53 Imagery 54 Symbolism Exam practice 1 Higher and foundation tiers 2 Assessment Objective 1 3 Assessment Objective 2 4 Assessment Objective 4 5 Breaking down and interpreting the question 6 Planning 7 Essay openings 8 Essay development 9 Essay endings 10 Using quotations and referring to the text 11 Writing in an appropriate style 12 What you won't get marks for 13 Commenting on a passage 14 Passage-based question: grade C answer (version 1) 15 Passage-based question: grade C answer (version 2) 16 Passage-based question: grade A* answer (version 1) 17 Passage-based question: grade A* answer (version 2) 18 Essay question 1: grade C answer (version 1) 19 Essay question 1: grade C answer (version 2) 20 Essay question 1: grade A* answer (version 1) 21 Essay question 1: grade A* answer (version 2) 22 Essay question 2: grade C answer (version 1) 23 Essay question 2: grade C answer (version 2) 24 Essay question 2: grade A* answer (version 1) 25 Essay question 2: grade A* answer (version 2) Homework 1 What the text reveals about George and Lennie (Section 1) 2 The bunk house (Section 2) 3 The silence (Section 3) 4 Evidence (Section 3) 5 Evidence (Section 4) 6 What we learn about Lennie (Section 5) 7 Structure (Section 6) 8 Who says it? (whole novel) 9 Review the whole novel 10 Writing an exam essay (1) 11 Writing an exam essay (2) Teacher notes and answers Background Plot notes and activities Structure notes and activities Whole-text activities Exam practice Homework