You are Cordially Invited to Participate in The Inglewood High School Steinbeck Festival Featuring the Literature of Nobel Prize Winning Author, John Steinbeck June 5-19, 2012 Click here to see the invitation distributed to teachers Choose from Seven Classroom Activities: - Play and Discuss John Steinbeck’s Reading of the Short Story, “The Snake” and attend the AP Chemistry class’ “Specimen Museum”. - Read the Story “Of Mice and Men” to your class. (Or play the student-read version while students read along.) - Read the story “The Pearl” to your class. (Or play the student-read podcast). - Discuss the social/scientific causes of the southern plains’ boom and Dust Bowl-bust leading up to “Black Sunday” in 1945 and the resulting migration west. Watch the PBS Video “Surviving the Dust Bowl” with excerpts from Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” - Watch the movie and discuss “Of Mice and Men” - Watch the movie and discuss “Cannery Row” - Join in working on the school garden, Lawson Memorial Rose Garden or the I-Building Planter Boxes All Activities Include Lesson Ideas and Activities! Please fill out the RSVP form and return it to Ms. Atley in room F1