This lesson plan is for teaching John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men" to an upper intermediate English class of 15-16 year old students over the course of a month. The plan involves students working in groups of three to complete reading comprehension and vocabulary activities, discuss the book online, and collaboratively write summaries of the plot in various formats. Key activities include identifying vocabulary from pictures, predicting the story before reading, online discussion during reading, and a group poster or chain story after reading to showcase their understanding of the novel.

1. A lesson plan : Of Mice and Men
• Level: Upper intermediate 1
• Students’ age: 15 – 16 y/o
• Number of SS : 12
• Students work in groups of three to
produce writing and present orally
• Time spent: A month between the reading
of the book and the production of the
activities

2. Before reading
1. Students to read the first part of the introduction.
Make sure they understand that there was trouble
in a town called Weed.
2. Ask them to think about what happened.
• Lennie killed someone.
• Lennie hurt someone.
• Lennie took money from a bank.
• Lennie took money from someone.
• Lennie got into trouble with a girl.
• Lennie started a fire.

3. Working on vocabulary
Warmer: Word poem , for example
Miserable
Inhuman
Civilzation
Experience
A handout with some words and expressions such as
Farmhand, riverbank, throws it away. “living off the fat of the land, ”
etc .
Ask students to find things in the pictures in the book. Then get them
to make a list of five other things they can see in the pictures.
Get feedback from the whole class and then have a class
discussion: What is going to happen in the story?

4. While Reading
• Two weeks to read the book
• Questions and discussion forum on
Edmodo (www.edmodo.com ) whenever
they want to
• Teacher is free to interact with the
students

5. Post Reading
Instructions posted on Edmodo
Students’ production:
A collaborative writing on the plot
A poster on Smore (www.smore.com)

6. https://www.smore.com/7nd5-of-mice-and-men

7. Collaborative writing
• A chain story about the book Groups of 3
• Two suggestions:
– WORD http://pt.scribd.com/doc/236180655/OF-MICE-
AND-MEN-1
– Livetyping http://livetyping.com/893079
• Students suggested to divide into chapters
• Each one wrote a certain number of chapters