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Students: appreciate and explain how composers may transform and adapt texts for different purposes, contexts and audiences, for example, appropriations in popular culture transform and adapt texts for different purposes, contexts and audiences (ACEEN050) investigate text structures and language features related to specific genres for different purposes and audiences (ACEEN052). EN11-5 thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and analytically to respond to and compose texts that include considered and detailed information, ideas and arguments Students: compose critical and creative texts that explore increasingly complex ideas. Of the three texts (the novella and the two film versions), which presents the final scene with the greatest impact? Explain why. Teacher information - Steinbeck deliberately wrote Of Mice and Men as a ‘novel play’ – that is, a novel that could be readily adapted into a play. In fact, Steinbeck himself adapted the novella into a play script for a stage production, directed by George S. Kaufman, which opened on Broadway the same year the novella was published (1937). This production was chosen as Best Play in 1938 by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. Students choose a scene from the novella and write their own play versions. The Wikihow guide cited here outlines steps that might be involved in such a task – students should focus on part 2, ‘Writing the play’, in this resource. It will also be helpful to study examples of play scripts to familiarise students with the conventions of formatting. Wikihow resource showing how to write a play based on a novel: EN11-1 responds to and composes increasingly complex texts for understanding, interpretation, analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure Students: investigate, appreciate and enjoy a wide range of texts and different ways of responding develop creative and informed interpretations of texts, supported by close textual analysis (ACELR062). Exploring connections between and among texts: themes The following activities may be used to explore the themes in this text as well as in other related material Students have already read two essays discussing the idea of dreams in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. In fact, there is a dichotomy of ideas in the novella: dreams and reality. Students research and define ‘dichotomy’ and write notes on this dichotomy as it relates to several characters in the text. Students can use the following table: Examples of texts dealing with the dichotomy of dreams and reality: Mercutio’s Queen Mab
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