Animal Farm Anticipation Guide and Pre-Reading Material Directions: We will read each of the following statements at the beginning and at the end of our unit on Animal Farm. Read each statement and circle the number that corresponds with how much you agree. We will see if your opinion changes after the novel. 1. Strongly Disagree 2. Disagree 3. No Opinion 4. Agree 5. Strongly Agree Before Reading: After Reading: 1 2 3 4 5
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no say‚ but you think that is okay. On Animal Farm‚ that is reality. The animals rebelled against the humans on their farm and took over‚ everything was good at first‚ but soon‚ the pigs became power hungry. They needed to be in charge‚ and Napoleon‚ the leader‚ became so attached to his power‚ he was willing to sacrifice other animals life‚ to simply stay in charge. The system of checks and balances used in the United States could have helped Animal Farm prevent Napoleon’s abuse of power by not
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Corruption’s Effects on Life The rebellion in George Orwell’s satire Animal Farm may have sounded appealing to the animals at first -never having to work for humans again- but they didn’t see the challenges and corruption in front of them. This book focuses on allegorizing the rise of Joseph Stalin and Soviet Communism. Readers are able to pull different biblical themes and perspectives out that should convict us as believers. A strong theme in this book is corruption‚ and Orwell conveys its effects
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“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. In many cases‚ a historical significance used in literature can be very effective and can be used to get an event or message across using symbolism and metaphors. George Orwell’s novel‚ Animal Farm‚ incorporates both a children’s read of talking animals taking over a farm and the historical horrors of the 1900’s. One of the many underlying events that the book includes
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Animal Farm assessment SOCRATIC SEMINAR Congratulations! Your thorough reading has allowed you to participate in the final assessment‚ which will be a Socratic seminar. Briefly‚ a Socratic seminar is a formal discussion technique in which students generate and respond to high-level questions and use the text in support. The format of our Socratic seminar will be as follows: Tuesday We will use a specific technique known as a “fishbowl discussion” and will use an “inner circle” and
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“Animal Farm”‚ a novel by George Orwell‚ is used as a fable to represent the events leading up to the Russian Revolution through animal perspective. A fable is a story with animals as characters that portray a moral. I will prove to the reader that “Animal Farm” proves a moral through its fable structure; power is something that most people can’t handle‚ and when in the wrong hands‚ it can completely ruin and destroy lives. In “Animal Farm”‚ the animals need a leader to lead them out of their laboring
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Animal Farm: Political Issues Eric Arthur Blair‚ better known by his psuedonym George Orwell‚ is an English author commonly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been highly acclaimed and criticized for his novels‚ including one of his most famous‚ Animal Farm. In a satirical form‚ George Orwell uses personified farm animals to express his views on stalinism in the novel Animal Farm. Throughout Orwell ’s early novels‚ democratic socialism kept the author from total despair of all
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for the power from the other animals. Both have their strengths and weaknesses that make them unique as candidates for power. The animals of Animal Farm must pick the candidate that best suits their needs and keeps the animals more powerful than the humans. Snowball is very inventive‚ he strives to make new innovations on the farm. For example‚ “He talked learnedly about field drains‚ silage‚ and basic slag‚ and had worked out a complicated scheme for all the animals to drop their dung directly
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Orwell’s Animal Farm: Summary of Characters Stalin’s five-year plan was made to upgrade Russia and bring it current with the rest of the world within a five-year period. In Orwell’s book Animal Farm‚ Napoleon - Snowball thinks up the idea of constructing a windmill which looks like it is designed to bring the farm up to current technology. In both cases‚ Stalin and Napoleon come off trying to sell their ideas with the impression that it is to better the lives of the people and the animals
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destructive force. In the book Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ Old major sparks the rebellion by making a speech explaining to the animals about how much of a better life they would have if they rebelled against Mr. Jones. After the rebel happens the pigs learn to read and write. With what they learned‚ the pigs make 7 commandments and write them on a “tarred wall in great white letters.” Throughout the book‚ the pigs break and rewrite the 7 commandments many times. Animal Farm’s society falls apart because
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