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The document provides research questions about agriculture, economics, race, the American Dream, women, mental disabilities, and author John Steinbeck in 1930s America to help understand the context of Of Mice and Men. It asks students to present their findings through an A3 mind map including pictures, color, facts, and ideas.

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OMAM Context Questions

The document provides research questions about agriculture, economics, race, the American Dream, women, mental disabilities, and author John Steinbeck in 1930s America to help understand the context of Of Mice and Men. It asks students to present their findings through an A3 mind map including pictures, color, facts, and ideas.

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Of Mice and Men Context Research

Task 1: Research and Information Gathering

Agriculture & Farming


1. What was the Dust bowl?
2. When did it occur?
3. What impact did it have?
4. What were migrant farmers in 1930’s America?
5. What was life like for migrant farmer’s in America in the 1930s?

Economics and Society


6. What was life like in America in the 1920s?
7. What happened on October 29th in 1929?
8. What did this lead to?
9. What were the ramifications of this?
10. What did President Herbert Hoover do to help? Did it help?
11. What were ‘Hoovervilles’?
12. What was President Franklin Roosevelt’s ‘new deal’?

Race and Society


13. How were black people and other ethnic minorities treated in 1930’s America?
14. What is segregation?
15. What were the Jim Crow laws?
16. What is the emancipation proclamation?
17. When did black American achieve equal voting rights?
18. Who were the Scottsboro boys?

American Dream
19. What is the ‘American dream’?
20. Who could achieve the American dream?
21. Why is California and ‘the west’ associated with the American dream?
22. When did Hollywood emerge?

Women and Society


23. What was the position of women in 1930’s American society?
24. What were the expectations of them?
25. How did their role change after WW2?
26. How were women treated unequally in society in the 1930’s?
27. Has the position of women changed in America since the 1930s? How?
28. Read the Ms Luce letter. What do you think Steinbeck is trying to suggest about the character of
Curley’s wife?

Mental Disabilities & Society


29. How were people with mental disabilities treated in the 1930s?
30. What level(s) of social welfare existed in America in the 1930s for those who had mental or physical
disabilities?
John Steinbeck
31. What other books did John Steinbeck write?
32. What were the main themes present in his books?
33. What types of people did he tend to write about?
34. What do you think was the message of his novels, particularly Of Mice and Men?

Task 2: Digestion of Information and presentation of contextual ideas.


Based on your research, create a single page A3 mind-map that demonstrates your knowledge. It should
not just be a sheet of solid text, but it should also contain:

 Pictures
 Colour
 Facts
 Ideas
Your A3 document should show your research and subsequent knowledge of the context that informs and
surrounds Of Mice and Men.
An exemplar-style mind-map has been issued below as one that you could emulate.

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