Sentence work coming up: causal
verbs
sentence
combining
Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
· Animal
Farm
Finish Chapter 1
Comparison of
Marx’s and Old Major’s speeches, if necessary
Begin Chapter 2
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Sentence Exercises
Talk about upcoming sentence quizzes
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Opportunity to replace one test.
Optional replacement test with be a new topic
/ paragraph about one or more of the stories we have done: “What Happened
During the Ice Storm”, “I Confess”, and “Dead Men’s Path”. (last 50m)
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HW “Midterm
Self-Assessment Reflection”, getting ready for midterm recommendation Wednesday
and Thursday
Wednesday, March 11
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Midterm recommendations
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Animal Farm Finish Chapter 2
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Quoting section- Animal Farm notes
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Sentence work
Thursday, March 12
·
Midterm recommendations
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Sentence work
·
Animal Farm Chapter 3
Friday- final day before Spring Break
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“Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 6
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Quiz 1- sentence quiz
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Two-week Spring Break
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Animal Farm Finish Chapter 1
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
comrade- friend, fellow, feeling of belonging, having common
interests, common dreams, same goals, united in struggle, fight against injustice,
oppression, fighting together
The animals must unite and fight together. They must not
lose their focus.
Man- humanity, human beings- outdated language
postman – letter carrier
Orwell does not write strong female characters. This is
criticism of him.
“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
Animal Farm Chapter 2
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LECTURE NOTES FROM CHAPTER 2
intelligent
animals have “new outlook on life” (9)
invigorated
by Old Major’s speech
secret
activity, duty to prepare
pigs
“cleverest of the animals” (9)
clever – might not be a
compliment, suggests tricky
Snowball- associated with Trotsky
Napoleon- associated with Stalin,
brutal dictator
allusion to Napoleon Bonaparte
Squealer- Pravda, Government Propaganda
Department
Fox News – propaganda news for
Donald Trump
The novel can be read as an
allegory of the Russian Revolution, 1917
“complete
system of thought” Animalism
distillation
of Old Major’s ideas, simplified for the animals
Boxer
and Clover “most faithful disciples” (11)
disciple
– religious, follows a religious teacher
Boxer
is a true believer.
very strong, not smart
o
Moses – Biblical name, Raven
symbolism - black like clergy,
Mr. Jones “especial pet” (10)
Sugarcandy Mountain,
heaven for animals (10-11)
reassuring
the animals that a better life is waiting for them in heaven
recall
Marx's quotation about religion
Religion is the
sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of
soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion
as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
**Students have
this quotation already.**
religious
government – theocracy theo – god cracy-government
theology---
study of religion
freedom
of religion -In Canada, we have freedom to belief what we want.
Mollie
in the farmhouse (14) -protective of the smaller animals, motherly
Mr.
Jones weakened, rebellion more easily achieved
animals
hungry- most basic need
Victor
Maslow - “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need”
You've got to
have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still
for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. -Billie Holiday
Animal Farm Chapter 2
Thought Questions
1. After
Old Major dies, who develops his ideas?
Why?
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the pigs- Snowball and Napoleon, also Squealer
-“cleverest”
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2. What
is Boxer and Clover’s attitude toward Animalism? Why?
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3. Why
don't the pigs like Moses the raven talking about Sugarcandy Mountain?
o
- Moses – Biblical name, Raven
symbolism - black like clergy,
Mr. Jones “especial pet” (10)
Sugarcandy Mountain,
heaven for animals (10-11)
reassuring
the animals that a better life is waiting for them in heaven
We will continue Chapter 2 tomorrow.
