Of Mice and Men KS3 SOW (21 lessons, high ability)

This is a 21 lesson (230+ slides) SoW, covering a variety of reading and writing skills. There are interleaved reading and writing tasks with a full range of exemplars. The final assessment of the unit is a comparative essay between ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. The final assessment could easily be adapted to be just about OMaM or to compare with other texts.

The scheme explores the following sets of skills and ideas:

• The significance of social, historical context on literature.
• Marxist and feminist approaches to literature.
• The relevance of Biblical allusions/Christianity on Western literature.
• Comparison of two thematically linked texts, building to a comparative essay between Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Developing the full range of writing skills, emphasising variety of sentence structures, techniques and tone.