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My Courses Of Mice and MenWeek Two

Mercy and Old Age

Chapter Three
Read Well · Think Well · Write Well
A margin note
The habit of attention: when the scene with Candy's dog turns hard to read, don't skim past it — slow down. Mark the one line you least want to sit with. That's usually the one that matters.
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Print your handout Your week's work lives on paper
Print the Week 2 handout
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Watch the lesson A short introduction to this week
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Enter into the Great Conversation Help, enrichment, and ideas to sit with

This is where the week opens outward — toward other thinkers, other art, and the help you need to do your best work.

This Week's Image

Christina's World

Andrew Wyeth, 1948. A woman in a dry field, looking toward a distant house. Look for sixty full seconds before reading anything about it. Hold it beside Candy.

Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth, 1948
Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World, 1948 · Museum of Modern Art
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This Week's Capstone

Following the Thread

This week, write a letter from your character — 200 to 300 words, in their voice, to someone they love or miss or wish they could speak to. Stay in their words, not yours.

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This Week's Lens Reading

The Myth of Sisyphus

Meet Camus, and the Greek story he read differently. A man pushing a stone up a mountain forever — and what one French philosopher saw in it. Honors students continue into Camus's own words.

Open the Lens Reading
Narration Examples

Compare your narration

After you've written your own narration on paper, hold it beside this one. Nothing to submit — this is for your own noticing.

Carlson keeps after Candy about the old dog until Candy runs out of ways to say no, and the whole bunkhouse just lies there in the quiet, waiting for the shot. Afterward Candy says the thing that matters most in the chapter — he should have done it himself, and not let a stranger shoot his dog. Then, for one evening, the dream turns real: Candy offers his three hundred dollars, and George starts talking about the little place like it has an address instead of being a story. Slim gives Lennie one of the pups, and Lennie can hardly hold how happy he is. Curley comes in spoiling for a fight and picks Lennie apart until George says to get him — and Lennie crushes Curley's hand without ever once meaning to, scared the entire time he's doing it. Slim makes Curley agree to say a machine did it. The shot and the dream money happen in the same room, only an hour apart.

What makes it strong: Seven sentences, and every one earns its place. It keeps the chapter's two big weights — the shot and the almost-real dream — and notices they share a room. The last sentence is an observation, not a summary, and it just stops.

See the strong & weak pair on Week One
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Turn in your work Submit your finished pages in Google Classroom

Take a clear photo or scan of each finished section, then submit them to this week's assignment in Google Classroom.

Include: your Narration & Find-It page, your Savoring the Words (Similes) page, and your My Keep page.
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From your teacher Your feedback comes back in Google Classroom
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Delight & Savor