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ANIMAL FARM

ANIMAL FARM . BY GEORGE ORWELL A LISTENING EXPERIENCE. WHY LISTEN (RATHER THAN READ)? . To hear our language in its polished form To exercise concentration skills Stay focused on story Use “extra” mind space for thinking about the story

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ANIMAL FARM

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  1. ANIMAL FARM BY GEORGE ORWELL A LISTENING EXPERIENCE

  2. WHY LISTEN (RATHER THAN READ)? • To hear our language in its polished form • To exercise concentration skills • Stay focused on story • Use “extra” mind space for thinking about the story • Draw parallels, interpretations, links to your own experiences • To learn vocabulary through context • To learn note-taking strategies • To add a fabulous story to your “Classic Repertoire” • Literature expands our understanding of the world

  3. WHAT? • Two chapters per day • Order of events • Characters • Vocabulary • Analyze how Orwell explores themes • Anti-Totalitarian • Cooperation vs. individual lust for power • Man’s inhumanity to man

  4. HOW? • Note-taking instruction (5 minutes) • Listening (20-25 minutes) • Finish reading online or may check out a book • Online 5-10 sentence paragraph (homework) • Quizzes Wed, Fri, test Tuesday • Spark Notes? • Read silently? • Absent?

  5. How will I be evaluated? • Quizzes • Paragraphs • Test (Tuesday, Jan 13) • Listening behavior

  6. Let’s Begin! • USE YOUR 2-ring BINDER! • Handouts • Notes • Quia Reports

  7. Take Notes – Animal Farm • George Orwell • English author (born in occupied India) • B. 1903 D. 1950 • Born “Eric Blair” • School reports vary • “failed to respect authority” • Wrote 1984 • “Shooting an Elephant” • Journalist

  8. Animal Farm (1944) • “A Fairy Story” • Allegory • A work that can be interpreted to have hidden meaning, often moral or political • Each character “stands for” someone or something • Designed to PERSUADE • Metaphor / symbolism

  9. Anti-totalitarian • (Government that controls its people “totally”) • AF mirrors the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s rise to power • AF warns of dangers of totalitarianism; cautionary tale (allegory often is!)

  10. Russian Revolution • Karl Marx • German philosopher • Co-founder (with Engles) of Marxism • “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” • Predicted that communism (stateless, classless society) would replace capitalism • He was not well known while alive • His ideas spurred the Bolshevik Revolution

  11. Soviet Revolution • 1904 (Bloody Sunday ~ St. Petersburg) • - 1917 • Bolshevik Revolution • February Revolution (Provisional Govt) • Tsar Nicholas II (last tsar of Russia) abdicated • October Revolution • October Uprising • Uprising of the 25th • Displaced Provisional Govt • Put Bolsheviks in power • Civil War from 1917-1922 • Soviet Union - 1922

  12. Players in the Bolshevik Revolution • Tsar Nicholas II • (Karl) Marx (idea man) • (Vladimir) Lenin (Main revolutionary of the Bolshevik Revolution) • (Leon) Trotsky instituted mass executions of peasants sympathetic to opposition • (Joseph) Stalin • Directed armies during the Civil War • Lenin warned that Stalin was becoming too powerful and should be removed

  13. Animal Farm tells the story of animals who rise up and overthrow their farmer, then set about to run the farm cooperatively and fairly.

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