Matteson ELA



Loneliness ParagraphPrompt: What is Steinbeck’s message about loneliness? Process:Which of the quotes below best convey Steinbeck’s message about loneliness? Complete a Say, Mean, Matter for the two quotes you select. Craft a topic sentence that answers the prompt, provides a road map for the paragraph, and includes at least two feeling* words. Your topic sentence might begin Through the characters of Candy and George, John Steinbeck reveals how loneliness can result in . . . Complete the chart to generate feeling plete a shaping sheet. With the shaping sheet as a guide, type a complete paragraph.*Feeling words convey opinion. To get to opinionated language, list all the unfulfilled, lonely characters. For each, consider how loneliness manifests itself in that character. I’ve completed Curley’s wife as an example. Those words are feeling/opinionated words that make analysis more insightful and powerful. Curley’s WifeCurleyCandyCrooksDesperateInsecureBitterLoneliness Quotes for the paragraph. Choose two – you do NOT have to use the entire quote. Use the most powerful parts. Make sure you identify the speaker of the quote and context.Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. . . . With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us" (13-14).I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him. Chapter 3, page 41When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs" (60).S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick” (72).A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin', he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to measure by. I seen things out here. I wasn't drunk. I don't know if I was asleep. If some guy was with me, he could tell me I was asleep, an' then it would be all right. But I jus' don't know” (73).Paragraph: (8 sentences, includes two chunks)Topic Sentence (opinion sentence that guides the paragraph): Evidence (includes transition, lead in, and quote):For example, Analysis (opinion):This shows thatAnalysis (opinion):This also shows thatEvidence (includes transition, lead in, and quote):In addition, Analysis (opinion):This shows thatAnalysis (opinion):This also shows thatCS (concluding sentence - all analysis & provides a finished feeling): ................
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