ideas for group presentation on mice and men

For Laura, Lexi, and my group presentation, on Mice and Men, our first thought for a writing assignment was to have students write an alternate ending to the book. This assignment would come at the end of the book after we had read the whole thing. This type of assignment would be fun for the students, would force them to be creative, but would also show us that they have a grasp on the book and storyline, and can make something unique from it. The ending would have to be realistic, and completely relate to the story. Nothing like...Lennie gets taken away by aliens haha.

As for a few other ideas, we were thinking of maybe doing something with the history that is taking place in the story and having the students do a writing assignment on that somehow. Ex: maybe showing them a poster or picture of 2 migrant workers back in the 1930s or 40s and having them write about what they think those workers' life was like based on the picture and their knowledge of George and Lennie's experiences.

We probably won't do this unless we can make it more of an assignment, but we were also thinking of having students write about one of their best friends who they are very different from, and explain how they became friends and how they remain friends even though they are very different. We would then have them relate that back to George and Lennie's friendship and see if there are any similarities. This would give the students a fun assignment to do, but they would still be analyzing the characters in the book and their relationship to one another.