English 11: Look here for your homework over the break (make sure you read to the bottom of this post)

 English 11

Research Topics Related to Of Mice and Men

Our new unit takes place around the 1930s in California, USA. 

Research one page of notes (TYPED OR WRITTEN) on the following topics nd cite your sources.

Evaluate the sources before you use them.

As much as possible search for information in the 1920s- 1930s of America.

The Great Depression:  

• When was it? 

• Why did it happen? 

• Who was affected? 

• What attempts were made to fix it in America?

Intellectual Disability (formerly Mental Retardation): What is it? 

• What factors cause it? 

• What is/has been public perception toward it?

• What are the different types?

Migrant Workers: 

• Who were they? 

• What type of work did they do? 

• What were the conditions like in which they worked?

• Where were migrations movements (to and from?

Euthanasia:

• What is it? 

• What are the different views? 

• Where has it been practiced? 

• What is the current law in Canada?

Racism: 

• How were blacks viewed in America during the first half of the twentieth century? 

• How were they affected by the Depression? Where did blacks primarily live in America?

• What laws kept blacks oppressed? (Jim Crow)

• What progress blacks made since the end of slavery in America

***We will present this on Tuesday after getting into the opening 'chapter' of Of Mice and Men.

For Monday: read the first section (pages 1-37).

Answer the questions on the handout: uncover the plot (circle the right option), 5Ws+H, Who is this?,

Who said that?, A complicated friendship.