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Warm-up:. You will need one piece of paper. Look at your card and the name of the character on it. This is your character. Write down your character as the title on your piece of paper. You want to fold your paper so that you have 2 columns. Agenda:. Background Fun Role-play Wrap-up.
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Warm-up: You will need one piece of paper. Look at your card and the name of the character on it. This is your character. Write down your character as the title on your piece of paper. You want to fold your paper so that you have 2 columns.
Agenda: Background Fun Role-play Wrap-up
Animal Farm: Why are we going to read this? Allegory Satire
Allegory: a symbolic story Remember: a symbol gives additional meaning to things. Heart = love Brain = intelligence An allegory is a story that has additional meaning throughout the entire plot. Everything actually means more and the reader or the audience must figure it out.
Animal Farm: allegorical farmyard tale satirizing government It’s about the pitfalls of government and mankind
Just Checking… Why are we really learning about Animal Farm and why is it important?
Let's look at the government of Russia in 1905. Who are you? Tsar Nobility Middle Class Proletariat
In 1905, the economy was run under feudalism. What does that mean again? • Meanwhile, the rest of the world (like England and the US) was thriving under industrialization
If you are the Tsar… • You are the king • You make the rules and laws of the country • You don’t get paid because you don’t have to pay for things • You use money to improve the country and its citizens
If you are the Tsar… You live here… Your neighborhood is…
If you are Nobility… • Your job is to collect money from the workers • You make $433,000 a month • You give your opinion to help make rules and laws. • You own fancy things
If you are Nobility… This is also your neighborhood… You live here…
If you are Middle Class.. • You are doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, professors, etc. • You have nice homes • Some of you live in the same neighborhood as the nobility • You make $400,000 a year
If you are the Proletariat… You work in the fields You make $20 a month
If you are proletariat… There is no running water Your children work too
If you are Proletariat… • There are 16 people to an apartment • 6 people share a room • You are the workers of the country • If it was not for you, no one would eat
Tsarism is a Monarchy: government ruled by king or queen and passed down through family. Who does this type of government benefit? Is it fair?
Some people had other ideas to end the inequality • Karl Marx, in 1847, wrote his Manifesto. • He argued that the workers should revolt and that property and wealth should be redistributed fairly. • People should contribute what they could and, in return, receive enough to support themselves.
Karl Marx hoped for a Utopian society without any inequality • “Utopia” is a term for an ideal society. • In Greek, this word means “no place.” What do YOU think the Greek meaning forshadows?
In 1917, the workers did uprise • The communist Bolshevik party eventually took power. • The Bolsheviks were led by Vladimir Lenin. Russia became the USSR. • This new government, led by Lenin, owns everything, but provide education, healthcare, food, etc. to the people.
If you are the Tsar… You and your family were shot and killed in your basement Sorry!!! • The entire family was told they were going to take a family picture • The girls did not die so they were stabbed • They still did not die so then they were shot in the head
If you are Nobility… You had to get a job… • You neighborhood has been set on fire • You work 14 hours a day • Your wife had to sell all her jewelry for $2 • You now make $30 a month but you get free healthcare and education
If you are Middle Class… You work the same job… • Your life doesn’t change much • You have the same job but you only work 6 hours a day • You now make $30 a month but you get free healthcare and education
If you are the Proletariat… You have the same job but with some changes… • You now work only 14 hours a day • You have no choices over rules and laws still but you love your new ruler • You now make $30 a month but you get free healthcare and education
Lenin was so loved by the people that he was embalmed and put on display after his death in 1924.
His brain was removed and saved… In 1924, people could go see him and say goodbye They can still do that now, too. Yep, he’s still there!
Stalin vs. Trotsky • After Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky struggled over who should be in power. • Even though it was no longer a Monarchy, Russian citizens still did not get to choose their leader.
Can you guess which is Stalin and which is Trostsky? Who won and who lost?
Trotsky lost. He was exiled to Mexico and eventually assassinated by a Soviet agent. Young Stalin Militant Stalin
Is this the Utopia they dreamed of? • Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. • He was responsible for the USSR becoming a major industrial power. • He also killed or imprisoned millions of people in the great “purges.” • Millions of people who were suspected of being a threat to the party were executed or exiled to labor camps
The End? The Utopian dream was not achieved. Many people were worse off under Soviet rule than they had been under Tsarist rule.
The USSR became a communist society where people were all equal but had no choices and made no decisions. The government made all the decisions. Whether you worked 3 hours or worked 12 hours you still made the same amount. You do not choose how much you work. What are the benefits to this type of government? What are the down sides to this government? Is it fair?
Break up into your roles: • Tsar • Nobility • Middle Class • Proletariat • Construct a poster that is a visual of your life before and after the 1917 Revolution
