Steinbeck's World
What is the full name of the author we are studying today?
What is John Steinbeck
This book depicts the destroyed dreams of migrating workers
What is Of Mice and Men?
What are vivid descriptions that create mental pictures?
What is imagery?
Who is presenting this presentation
Who is Mikey Cuellar
Steinbeck won this prestigious literary award in 1962.
What is the Nobel Prize?
This book describes the tough struggle of a family moving away from the Dust Bowl.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
What are objects or ideas representing deeper meanings?
What is symbolism?
What is the time range for this presentation
What is 10-12 Minutes
What is the award Steinbeck received in 1964.
What is the US Medal of Freedom?
This book illustrates episodes from the life of a boy facing reality on the ranch.
What is The Red Pony?
What is the arrangement of words and sentences?
What is syntax?
This Presentation counts as 2 grades: A Major Grade and a _____
What is a LSC Final Exam
Steinbeck's early life in this state influenced the settings and characters in many of his famous novels.
What is California
This book features a fisherman whose unexpected riches (a pearl) bring him destruction.
What is The Pearl?
According to the presentation, what is the overall purpose of imagery in Steinbeck's works?
What is to reveal how external events control characters' lives?
The instructions advise you to avoid doing this too much, especially with plot, but instead to provide interesting glimpses.
What is summarizing?
What are some of the personal interactions and environmental effects that molded Steinbeck's belief about external powers controlling human lives?
What are poverty, social injustice, and the Dust Bowl?
What are the four specific books by Steinbeck mentioned in this presentation?
What are Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Red Pony, and The Pearl?
What are the three specific literary elements that Steinbeck uses to craft fate, according to the presentation?
What are imagery, symbolism, and syntax?
Do you know what a book is? Spell It
What is IT