Group Activity- Of mice and men

For the 2 assignments, we decided to do an alternate ending project where they have to creatively come up with a different way to end Of Mice and Men. We thought this would be a fun way to get students to want to write and break away from the typical essay format where students may dread to write. The other assignment that we thought of was bringing in photographs of the times and having them talk about the historical context from the book. This takes place in the 1940's and we want to describe the economic times and the life of a migrant worker. Bringing in the photography can put a mental image in their minds and also have them educated of what was going on in the outside world besides simply on this farm.