EF 7 11 Class 42 Presentations, AF Ch9-10

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Feedback forms- You each need five.

We can give helpful feedback to our fellow learners.

-criticism, critical (sounds negative)

-constructive criticism – helpful advice

 

·      Presentation day

I will gather the scripts first thing, at the beginning of class. Make sure you have one printed for me.

6 groups to do their thing.

 

·      Animal Farm Chapter 9

·      Animal Farm Chapter 10

 

IF TIME

·      Continue parallelism

·      Continue sentence combining

·      Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal verbs

·      Vocab exercise

 

Tuesday

·      MOSTLY THE FULL CLASS

Final test AF – essay

I will not have much time to mark the essay in detail- grammar

I’ll read it and give a mark.

·      Collect novels

 

Wednesday

·      Final class

·      Marks Day

·      Not an instructional day

We can meet one-on-one to discuss your final result. We can look at your essay together.

If you are absent on Wednesday, email me between 9:15-11:30. I will email you your final mark. I won’t be able to discuss your term via email. If you like to discuss anything with me, you have to come to school.

 

 

 

Chapter 9 Discussion Notes

MY LECTURE NOTES

  Boxer hurt, keeps working, not show pain

  Clover nurse, Benjamin worried

  Boxer looking forward to his retirement- good pension plan

 

  hard winter, rations reduced except for pigs and dogs (75)

Squealer spins “readjustment” real meaning ‘reduce’ ‘cut’

EUPHEMISM – polite word, indirect word, instead of the real word, clear word

‘bathroom’ ‘washroom’

 

 

Squealer uses figures to prove life better

  “they had been slaves and now they were free” (75)

 

  Napoleon sires many children- educated, play apart

 

  other animals must stand aside for pigs

  pigs wear green ribbons on Sundays

 

  successful year, but rations reduced, pigs still fat, comfortable

barley reserved for pigs, beer ration

  life has “greater dignity” (77) songs, speeches, processions

 

  Spontaneous Demonstrations (77) appointed time, military-like procession

not ‘spontaneous’, forced

 

  fluttering flags, empty bellies

  Animal Farm-Republic with president

  further propaganda against Snowball regarding Battle of Cowshed (78), Napoleon wounded Snowball

 

  Moses the raven returns (78), outwardly condemned but supported by pigs

 

  Boxer tiring, weakening, collapses

  knacker van- Benjamin finally speaks up, too late

l  knacker – enders animals into leather, glue

 

  Squealer spins van/ death, hospital

 

  pigs bought, got drunk on whiskey

Where did the money for the whiskey come from?

 

 

 

l  Chapter 10 Discussion Notes

MY LECTURE NOTES

  pre-rebellion life forgotten, all original animals dead except Clover, Benjamin, Moses, some pigs

  No animals ever retired

  Benjamin more or less the same, more “morose” “taciturn” (?) after Boxer died

VOCAB ‘taciturn’ close-lipped, uncommunicative, silent

 

  new horses, stupid, good workers, comrades, accept everything

  farm prosperous, successful- animals not richer, except dogs and pigs

  many dogs and pigs

  pigs write reports, immediately burned (87)

  no memory/ context to compare quality of life

  Benjamin recalls, cynical- not better or worse

  Squealer spins

  Animals feel hope “sense of honour and privilege” (87)

  “imperishable pride” “old heroic days” (88)

  patriotic about Animal Farm

  “All animals were equal”

  Squealer reeducates sheep: “Four legs good, two legs better!”

  Pigs on hind legs, Napoleon with whip

  Benjamin reads aloud single commandment (90)

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

COMMON IDIOM some are more equal than others

  pigs wear clothes, smoke pipe, carry whips

 

  Big meeting, final scene of book

  all friends, speechifying, toasting

  model farm “did more work and received less food” (92)

  common “labour problems” “you have your lower animals... we have our lower classes” (92)

  Napoleon not “subversive” or “revolutionary”, just want “normal business relations”

  farm co-op “owned by the pigs jointly” (93)

  renamed “Manor Farm”

  big fight, card cheats, indistinguishable- read final paragraph (95)

 

What do you think will happen next on Animal Farm?

Will the animals rebel again?

 

 

 

Essay tomorrow – Focus will be on good essay structure.

I will ask you an easy question.

Organize and write a good paragraph.

 

e.g. What are three some ways Napoleon goes against Old Major’s ideas?

 

 

How to Get a High Mark on Your Essay

1.    Read the question.

2.    Generate ideas.

3.    Organize your ideas.

4.    Make sure that each sentence is a real sentence.

5.    Check your sentences- proofread, edit

6.    Submit it and forget about it.