Of Mice and Men literary analysis organizer (key included)

This graphic organizer forces students to look at key passages, identify literary elements and consider how literary elements help illuminate the significance of a passage.

Students take their answers and go through the steps of gathering information, creating a statement and constructing a body paragraph that requires students to give evidence. You can use this activity as part of the planning process for a broader literary analysis paper on the novel. This activity requires students to create a topic sentence that sets up their paragraph. This is a great activity to help students learn the initial process of literary analysis.