Terry Pruyne's Classes
  • Daily Agenda
  • Introduction
    • 10R: INTRODUCTION
  • The Personal Project
    • Checklist for Personal Project
    • Personal Project information Packet
    • Global Contexts >
      • Examples for the Global Context Question
    • Annotated Bibliography: Personal Project >
      • Example of an Annotated Bibliogrpahy
    • The Presentation: Personal Project
  • What is Civil Disobedience?
    • Pathos, Ethos, and Logos >
      • Pathos, Ethos, and Logos in Leter from Birmingham Jail
    • MLK: Letter from Birmingham Jail >
      • Question for "Letter From Birmingham Jail"
    • Literary Elements in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
    • Thoreau: Where I Live and What I Live For
  • Short Story Unit
    • Science Fiction >
      • Harrison Bergeron >
        • Harrison Bergeron analysis
      • A Sound of Thunder >
        • "Sound of Thunder" analysis
      • All Summer in a Day
    • Short Story Unit: Part II >
      • Lather Research
      • Sniper: Research
      • Sniper Research Paper
    • Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie
  • This I Believe
    • This I Believe: Writing Your Personal Belief
    • This I Believe: Guidelines to Write
    • This I Believe: Philosophy of Life in Songs
    • Thoreau: Where I Live and What I Live For
  • Antigone
    • Antigone: Intro Questions
    • Letter to an Administrator >
      • Letter to an Administrator: sample letter
  • Maus
    • Maus: Chapter 1 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 2 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 3 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 4 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 5 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 6 Questions
    • Maus: Understanding Graphic Novels >
      • Maus: Seven Types of Comic Panels
      • Maus: six Types of Transitions
      • Maus: What is Inference
      • Maus: Videos
      • Comic Book Drawings
    • Maus Project >
      • graphic novel project: Spongebob
      • graphic novel project: A Blade in the Night
      • graphic novel project: example
      • Grading the Maus Project
  • Of Mice and Men
    • Of Mice and Men: Introduction
    • Of Mice and Men >
      • Of Mice & Men: The American Dream
      • Themes in Of Mice and Men >
        • Social Consciousness
        • Lonliness in Of Mice and Men
        • The American Dream
      • Literary Elements in Of Mice and Men
      • Chapter Questions
      • Texas Uses Lenny for Execution Role Model
      • Of Mice and Men: You are a Lawyer
      • Documents: Of Mice and Men
      • courtroom
      • Evidence to Convict George
      • Evidence to Defend George
  • MLA Page Set up and Other Important Info and Links
    • Concession and Refutation
  • Poetry
    • Poetry Terms
    • Poetry: The Wind
    • Poetry: Ex-Basketball Player
    • Poetry: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
    • Poetry: The Whipping >
      • Point of View
      • The Whipping Resources
    • Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening >
      • Frost
    • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
  • Into the Wild
    • Into the Wild: Why a Road Trip
    • Henry David Thoreau >
      • Thoreau Into the Wild Assignment
      • Thoreau in Into the Wild
      • Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College
    • Questions: Into the Wild (Chapters 1-6) >
      • Happiness
      • Aftermath of Into the Wild
  • MLA STYLE EXAMPLE PAPER
  • Help for Passing the Common Core Exam
    • Help for Part I of the New York State Common Core Exam
    • Help for Part II of the New York State Common Core Exam >
      • First Organizer for Part II
      • Second Organizer for Part II
      • Concession and Refutation
    • Help for Part III of the New York State Common Core Exam
    • Literary Terms: Short Definitions for the Commonly Used on New York State Exams
    • Mr. Ruth's Study Guide
  • RHETORIC & EVIDENCE-BASED CLAIMS
    • Political Cartoons
  • Additional Readings
    • Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehreneich
  • Literary Devices Through the Rolling Stones
  • Creating a Brochure
  • 10H: INTRODUCTION
  • Literary Elements
    • Literary Terms: Characterization
    • Literary Terms: Allusion
    • Literary Terms: Theme
    • Literary Elements: Imagery
    • Literary Terms: Conflict
    • Literary Terms: Irony
  • Documenting Sources (Works Cited)

john steinbeck

Others works by Steinbeck include The  Grapes of Wrath (1939), East of Eden (1952),
Of Mice and  Men (1937).

He wrote three pieces called "the California  novels" and Dust Bowl fiction that took place in California. These included In Dubious Battle, Grape of Wrath, and Of  Mice and  Men.

What was the Dust Bowl and what other reasons  were people migrating to California?

What is the American Dream?

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom  includes the opportunity forprosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. In the definition of the  American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller  for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability
or achievement"  regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.
The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the United States Declaration of  Independence which proclaims that  "all men are created equal" and  that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights"  including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Does the American dream have limitations? What if your are Black, Asian, or a woman? 
Who are the richest people in America?

To a Mouse

 
Small, crafty, cowering, timorous little  beast,
O, what a panic is in your little  breast!
You need not start away so  hasty
With argumentative chatter!
I would be loath to run and chase you,
With murdering plough-staff.

 I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
And justifies that ill opinion
Which makes you startle
At me, your poor, earth born companion
And fellow mortal!

 I doubt not, sometimes, but you may  steal;
What then? Poor little beast, you must live!
An odd ear in twenty-four sheaves
Is a small request;
I will get a blessing with what  is left,
And never miss it.

 Your small house, too, in ruin!
Its feeble walls the winds are scattering!
And nothing now, to build a  new one,
Of coarse grass green!
And bleak December's winds coming,
Both bitter and keen!

 You saw the fields laid bare and  wasted,
And weary winter coming fast,
And cozy here, beneath the blast,
You thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel plough passed
Out through your cell.

 That small bit heap of leaves and  stubble,
Has cost you many a weary nibble!
Now you are turned out, for all  your trouble,
Without house or holding,
To endure the winter's sleety dribble,
And hoar-frost cold.

 But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

 Still you are blessed, compared with  me!
The present only touches you:
But oh! I backward cast my eye,
On prospects dreary!
And forward, though I cannot see,
I guess and fear!


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