Wednesday, 31 May 2023

EF 7 11 Class 24- Animal Farm Ch1

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Return Test#3

Optional RW for a bonus point

SENTENCES!

·      Continue Animal Farm

AF Ch1

·      Talk about “” more, option

·      HW   Prepare AF Ch2- read, make notes for the thought questions

 

Thursday

·      Animal Farm Ch2

·      Continue adjective clauses- exercises from homework

 

Friday

·      Animal Farm Ch2

·      Quiz#2- 10 sentences complex sentences- adverb clauses, adjective clauses

 

Monday

·      Animal Farm Ch3

 

Tuesday

·      Animal Farm Ch3

 

Wednesday

·      Test#4 Animal Farm Ch1-3 Paragraph with “ ”

 

 

 

 

Test#3

Who was a better role model for the students, Mr. Wei or Mr. Obi?

 

STRUCTURE

Grabber- Use a grabber! 7 ways

Topic sentence- refers to the question, gives a clear controlling idea

Supporting sentences- give reasons, give evidence *3 is the magic number, “ “ quoted text

Concluding sentence

 

MAIN AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT

1.    Quality of the sentences: SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX

If you master these sentence types, you will be ready for any writing in English.

vf- verb forms     punc-punctuation , . ;

2.    Phrasing- authentic English

 

This is all opportunity to improve.

 

 

QUICK TIP:

Don’t start sentences with SOBA. It’s too casual for school writing.

 

And then Mr.Wei apologized. XXX

But he refused to listen to the elder. XXX

 

Then Mr.Wei apologized. After that, Mr.Wei apologized.

Immediately afterwards, Mr.Wei apologized.

 

However, he refused to listen to the elder.

Unfortunately, he refused to listen to the elder.

Unfortunately for him, he refused to listen to the elder.

 

Title of a novel – underline or italics

Animal Farm Animal Farm

In the beginning of Animal Farm, Old Major is the leader of the animals.

 

Title of a short story  “”

“I Confess”

In “I Confess”, Mr. Wei is a very good role model for his students.

 

REVIEW of ways to do grabbers/hooks:

1.    funnel

2.    anecdote

3.    historical

4.    fact/statistic

5.    question

6.    quotation

7.    idiom/saying

 

 

Mr. Wei is a strict and work hard. XXX

Mr. Wei is strict and works hard. parallel adj verb

Mr. Wei is strict and hardworking. parallel adj adj

 

Mr. Wei is a strict and hardworking teacher.

 

Mr. Wei is strict, and he works hard. COMPOUND

 

Mr. Wei, who is strict, is a hardworking teacher. COMPLEX- adj cl

Mr. Wei, who is a strict teacher, works hard. COMPLEX- adj cl

Mr. Wei is hardworking because he is such a strict teacher. COMPLEX- adv cl

Mr. Wei works as hard as he does because he is such a strict teacher. COMPLEX- adv cl

 

SIMPLE       COMPOUND       COMPLEX

 

“Chapter 1 Thought Questions”, p.c.

Get into small group(4-5 people)

 

Assign questions 1-8, then assign each group one character for question

 

Q2               majestic(adj) majesty(n)- royal, like a king or queen

                     wise, respected, “highly regarded”

Q3               “miserable, laborious, and short”

                     misery(n)- unending suffering

                     labour(n)- hard work

                     “slavery”

 

 

l  foreshadowing in Old Major’s speech

Major foreshadows whole story “we must not come to resemble [Man]… do not adopt his vices” (6)

-this is a hint of what is to come- foreshadowing

 

·      Read last bit of speech. pp5-6

“Marx Excerpts”, p.c.

Compare to Karl Marx quotation

“The immediate aim of the Communists is the... overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, [and] conquest of political power by the proletariat...  [T]he Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things...  They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.  Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.  Proletarians of all countries, unite!”

different translations from German “Workers of the world, unite!”

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx

 

                     Class discuss: Are these ideas similar?  How?

 

Marx -  proletariat overthrowing the bourgeoisie, calling for unity of all workers

Old Major – animals overthrowing humans, calling for unity between all animals

 

- equate the character of Old Major with Karl Marx

 

l  Notes for question 9

 

         Characters                      Characteristics

 

  Mr. Jones                                     farmer, alcoholic, drunkard, violent,

careless, irresponsible, doesn’t care for animals properly, cruel, wicked (very strong vocab)

 

  Old Major                                     pig, elder, wise, smart, visionary,

                                                       powerful, respected                                                                                                                                           “majestic-looking” “benevolent”                                                                                                                             “stout” (1)

 

  Bluebell, Jessie, Pincher           dogs

 

  Boxer                                             horse, “enormous” “strong as two

ordinary horses” (2), big, strong, likes to work, “tremendous power of work”, not smart, respected, “steadiness of character”, loyal, reliable, honest, naïve, looks stupid

 

 

  Clover                                            horse, “stout motherly mare”                                                  middle-aged, four foals, gentle to                                       ducks (2)

 

  Muriel                                           goat, minor character

 

  Benjamin                                      donkey, oldest, short-tempered, bad-

                     tempered, doesn’t talk much, taciturn,

close-lipped, “cynical”, “never laughed”, humourless, wise, “devoted to Boxer”(2), Boxer and Banjamin are close friends- opposites attract

 

IDIOM “like chalk and cheese”- different personalities

 

  Mollie                                            mare, pretty, foolish, pulled Mr. Jones

                                                       trap, “mincing” “lump of sugar”

                                              (3), flirting mane, ribbons

 

  Cat                                                 lazy, disengaged, spoiled, minor

                                                       character

 

  Moses                                           raven, tame, spy, major character,

                                                       represents the church, religion

 

  Rats                                               wild, outcasts

 

 

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