Outline of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy

Of Mice and Men | LitCharts Author Bio Full Name: John Steinbeck Date of Birth: 1902 Place of Birth: Salinas, California Date of Death: 1968 Brief Life Story: John Steinbeck grew up in and around Salinas, California. Key Facts Full Title: Of Mice and Men Genre: Novella (short novel) Setting: Salinas and Soledad, California during the Great Depression in the early 1930s Climax: Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife Protagonist: Lennie Small and George Milton Antagonists: Curley Point of View: Third person omniscient Historical and Literary Context When Published: 1937 Literary Period: Modernist Novel Related Literary Works: John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie were perhaps the two most famous chroniclers of the Great Depression. Related Historical Events: When the stock market crashed in 1929, an already awful situation for farmers and farm workers got considerably worse.

Reader Idea | Debates on Persuasive Language That Extend Outside of Class - NYTimes.com#more-103641 The New York TimesFrom left, The Times’s columnists Maureen Dowd, David Brooks and Gail Collins. A teacher in Georgia, Randy Fair, uses their columns in class to discuss the art of persuasive language.Go to the Opinion section » Here is another in our Great Ideas From Readers series. If you’ve used The Times for teaching and learning and would like to see your idea featured on our blog, write in and tell us what you’ve done. Teacher: Randy Fair Institution: Milton High School, Milton, Ga. Grade or Level of Students: Secondary (ages 14-18) Idea: Using The New York Times’s Opinion section to teach columnists’ devices in their art of persuasive language, and to create debate on their topics — in and out of class. Why We Chose It: Classroom conversations, inspired by Times articles, that are so lively that students are still debating the issues long into the night? What Mr. In my Advanced Placement Language class, I use an editorial each week in an activity we call “Rhetoric Friday.” — Randy Fair