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Biopoem Strategy as Part of a Character Analysis for Of Mice and Men OrganizerBiopoem Strategy as Part of a Character Analysis for Of Mice and Men Organizer
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Biopoem Strategy as Part of a Character Analysis for Of Mice and Men

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Readers of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men will learn much “more than what (is) said to them” as they use the biopoem format and craft a poem about one of the major characters in Steinbeck’s tragic story of Geroge Milton and Lennie Small. The resource includes directions and a template of the biopoem formula.

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biopoems, biographical writing, biographies, poetry, character analysis, characters, of mice and men, john steinbeck

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biopoem, character analysis, john steinbeck, of mice and men, poetry, english language arts
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8th - 9th
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English Language Arts
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Graphic Organizers
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Common Core

RL.8.3 RL.9-10.3 W.9-10.9.a

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