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My Reflective Piece

By Joe O Bruadair

My group and I, ( Danny, Oscar, Aodhán and Steven) had the theme of “dreams” for our project. I had thoroughly enjoyed working on this project with my classmates. I had joined the group late because I had been sick with the flu the week we started. Even with that small space of time I had enjoyed this class work.

The methods we used in making this project were a few excellent ones. For the photograpy, it was usually from google images after searching the words “Of Mice and Men,” or even “Of Mice and Men storyboard.” For the bibliographies we went through the history of our iPads and found all the links to the notes and images we had the pleasure of using.

The thinking behind the animoto was just a few short from greatness. Danny, “the animoto master,” had taken the images and the notes from the storyboard and had added them into the animoto with music and cool slides.

I thought a lot things worked well making this project and a lot of the things didn’t. But I will start on the positives.

Things that worked well in this project is that everyone on my group had put in an effort, which I think was greatly on the shoulders of “padlet” as it was quite accessible to everybody and was very easy to use. I thought that nobody was getting in anyones way and that we could work at our own desk without leaning over each other and what not. I thought the bad thing about this project was that we had too much time to do it. We just procastinated for quite a long time at the start and I believe in this instinct it would be better for it to be shorter. As for me at least, I work better under pressure.

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Reflection

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Aodhán English

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The Reflection                   Danny Ó Fionnáin          Theme:Dreams,                                                                                                        Lennie and George’s dream, the American Dream

In the Animoto story that the group that I was in did, we looked on the Of Mice and Men novel. We also used google images to add images to the Animoto.

For this assignment we used pictures and wrote a lot about the dream Lennie and George have in the novel. The dream they had in the novel was to own a small farm with a few animals and Lennie would’ve tended the rabbits. George didn’t think it would happen but then Candy came and offered money and suddenly the dream became visible. The small farm with a few animals is the American Dream for Lennie and George.

We also used a number of websites which include, rebecaray.com, cliffnotes.com, wikipedia.com and shmoop.com. We also used a bit of humor in the Padlet. The main thing we did was the storyboard. We told the story in a shorter context.

I liked doing this Padlet work because it was joyful to complete. The Animoto I think was the funnest task because it was fun choosing the music, background and pictures. I enjoyed this task also because of the group work, I enjoy working in groups.

There was a lot of tasks assigned in this Padlet. We put up a story board, Animoto and pictures about the novel and the American Dream. Not to mention all of the extra things me and my group put into the Padlet.

I think that the group work worked well in this in this Padlet but I I’d think my group could improve a bit on communication on it because the other groups seemed to be talking a lot more than us.

That was my reflection on the book Of Mice Of Men. Goodbye.

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The significance of dreams in Of Mice and Men. Even though the life of the ranch workers dream for a better life. George and lennie dream of owning their own land, which is also called the American dream. But George and Lennies friendship is what keeps the dream alive and makes it possible.

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She dreams of becoming an actress on broadway but she can’t because she has married Curley but she would’ve loved to have been an actress.

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American Dream

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An live off the fatta the lan'," Lennie shouted. "An have rabbits." The hope of ownership of a farm gives George and Lennie something to work for and to hope for; it is their version of the American Dream.

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The dream a the start of the novel seems like an unachievable goal and as though it would never happen. As the novel progress it seems that it could happen if a few years went by uneventfully. It would have taken them a significant amount of effort to achieve it yet they might have persevered. This is until Candy overhears them. . .

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When Candy finds out about George’s dream he joins them in their effort to acquire a small farm. The fact that Candy has a sizeable amount money means that the dream becomes an achievable goal in their minds. As a result when the dream collapses due to Lennie killing Curleys wife ,Candy is saddened. The reason this is a major turning point is in addition to a vastly larger reserves it also increases their gain per month by half. This means that they need to wait a third less time. This also means that they could instead work actually acquiring land and setting up instead of waiting and they would still have something to fall back on if it went badly

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George and lennies dream is to own  a small relatively insignificant farm somewhere nice enough to settle down and relax at. This is what is driving them throughout the novel. What they hope to have is a small house, some animals and some land to their name. Also they would be able to have a social life and enjoy life. One of the major things to have would be a rabbit hutch and an alfalfa patch to grow feed for the rabbits. They also wanted a variety of farm animals as well as a nice enough home.

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RebecaRay.com
Cliffnotes.com
Wikipedia.com
Shmoop.com

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The book Of Mice And Men. Also Google Images. https://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/WorstHardTimes_Notes9-16.html