<Write the definitions for the vocabulary items from the chapter. Put them in alphabetical order. You may want to put links to images or websites that help to explain the vocabulary. Your teacher will show you how to do this. The links below are just examples. They do not work.>

<acres - An acre is an area of land equal to 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet. For comparison, a football field is 45,000 square feet, so one acre is a little smaller than a football field.

anguished - anguish is a feeling of great physical or mental pain. The look on Lennie's face would show the mental pain he feels at the thought of George leaving him.

bank - the part of land that meets a body of water

bindle - a small bundle of items rolled up inside a blanket and carried over the shoulder or on the back; a bedroll. See a picture of a man carrying a bindle.>

<Write the meaning of the allusions from the chapter. Put them in alphabetical order. You may want to put links to images or websites that help to explain the allusions. Your teacher will show you how to do this. The links below are just examples. They do not work.>

<Galiban Mountains: a small mountain range situated east of the Salinas River.

Howard street: There is a Howard Street in San Francisco, a city in Northern California (find San Francisico on a map of California). On their travel south from Weed, the two men may have stopped in San Francisco to look for work.

Sacramento: The capital of California, Sacramento is located about eighty miles northeast of San Francisco. Find it on a map of California.>

<Write the meaning of the idioms from the chapter. Put them in alphabetical order. You may want to put links to images or websites that help to explain the idioms. Your teacher will show you how to do this. The links below are just examples. They do not work.>

<in hot water: to be in hot water is to be in trouble.

jungle-up: During the Great Depression, many wanderers (hoboes and tramps) would settle for the night in groups. These areas would be known as hobo jungles. To jungle-up is to camp out for the evening in the company of other like companions of the road.>

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Updated: 10/20/00