A comprehensive and engaging 10-week teaching unit for Of Mice and Men, designed for Year 10 and senior English classrooms. This unit supports students in developing advanced analytical skills through the study of context, language features, text structures, characterisation, and themes.

With a strong focus on preparing students for senior English, this resource guides learners from foundational understanding to sophisticated analytical writing. Students explore the social and historical context of the text while building the skills needed to construct clear, evidence-based arguments.

This is a rigorous, classroom-ready unit that balances depth of analysis with clear scaffolding and engaging activities.

What’s included:
Complete 10-week lesson sequence (fully structured and easy to follow)
Contextual study (Great Depression, American Dream, social values)
Language features and stylistic analysis activities
Text structure and narrative technique exploration
In-depth character analysis (George, Lennie, Curley’s wife, Crooks, Candy)
Theme analysis (friendship, isolation, power, dreams, inequality)
Analytical paragraph scaffolds (PEEL/TEEL)
Exemplar analytical responses (modelled paragraphs)

Each slide deck includes integrated, student-friendly learning activities that actively engage learners, reinforce understanding, and support the development of analytical writing skills.

How to Use
Convert to PowerPoint: Upload the PDF to PowerPoint (File → Open) to automatically convert into editable slides
Use in Google Slides: Upload to Google Drive, right-click, and open with Google Slides
Use digitally or print: Upload to your LMS (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or print for handouts
Canva option: Upload the PDF to Canva to edit, customise, and export as PowerPoint