Short Stories on your Blog...Extra bits to deal with!

Added bit - as you write your story...Can you include something, even just a little something that relates to our theme of "beauty"?  Could it be a character's name? Could some part of the description of your characters, or setting include "beauty"?  Could it be included in your title? 

HOW TO Add A Creative Commons Image from Flickr on Your Blog

  by  Moyan_Brenn (back soon, sorry for not commenting)

To do this we used two websites:

1) We started our search at search.creativecommons.org (to find images we can legally reuse).

2) We used imagecodr.org to get the HTML code to paste the image with attribution on our blogs.

3) On our  blogs FIRST we clicked the HTML button to paste the code then COMPOSE to write our blog posts.

Final Thoughts...about Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

Question:  What will you remember the longest about this story?  Did you find anything humorous in the story?  Which part was the saddest?  The most surprising?  The most thought-provoking? Did you learn anything from the book – about the Depression, about California, about ranch life, etc? 

Historical Information - The Dust Bowl

John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize speech!

"Livin' off the fatta the lan"...

George, Lennie and Candy all share the dream of owning their own farm.  For each one, however the dream, is a little different.  Explain why having their own farm (or ranch) is attractive to each character:  (See p. 56 - 61).  Explain in PEACE format.
  

What are your thoughts so far?

To infer:

1. in·fer

   inˈfər/

   verb

   gerund or present participle: inferring

   1. 1.

      deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

As we're just finishing up Chapter Two...respond to the following question.  "If you were to empty either George or Lennie's pockets at this point...what are three items that you would likely find?   Explain how these three items reflect that character's personality.