Mr. Torbert Of Mice and Men Key Quotations Packet
Directions for Using Quotations Packet Effectively
Pre-Reading:
1) Read quotations before reading the chapter.
2) Circle vocabulary that you do not know and define those words.
3) Ask questions and make predictions based on the quotations.
While Reading:
1) Stop and take notes when you encounter quotations in the text.
2) Identify the context (S.A.T.S. -- Speaker / Audience / Tone / Situation) for each quotation.
3) Take notes or ask questions about greater significance of quotation.
After Reading:
1) Use quotation numbers to guide in-class note-taking. You never have to write out the whole
quotation. Just use the number.
2) Use quotations packet to find textual evidence for in-class work and for writing assignments.
3) Use quotations packet to efficiently review for quizzes and tests.
Chapter 1 (Pages 1-16):
1) "The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.
Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind
him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping
shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws”
(Steinbeck 2).
2) "Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up
his knees, embraced them, looked over to George to see whether he had done it just right”
(Steinbeck 4).
3) "George’s hand remained outstretched imperiously. Slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to
bring a ball to its master, Lennie approached, drew back, approached again. George snapped his
fingers sharply, and at the sound Lennie laid the mouse in his hand” (Steinbeck 9)
4) "God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no
trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go
into town and get whatever I want” (Steinbeck 11).
5) "You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the
country all the time. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to
get you out” (Steinbeck 11).
6) "I’d find things, George. I don’t need no nice food with ketchup. I’d lay out in the sun and
nobody’d hurt me. An’ if I foun’ a mouse, I could keep it. Nobody’d keep it away from me”
(Steinbeck 12).