Eng7/10 Oct 7

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Good morning.

We’ll get started at 11.

Today’s agenda:

1. Intro to George Orwell and Animal Farm

2. Animal Farm Chapter 1

My schedule for November quarter (2nd quarter):

P1 8:30-10:45 Eng. 6/7/10 -split class

P2 11:00-1:15 Eng. 5/6 -split class

Did you register yet?

for example, I teach a 10/11 split right now.

I run the class like an 11, and I mark the 10s a little easier.

Some teachers run two completely separate classes, but I don’t like that. I run one class and mark harder or easier.

My 6/7/10 will be very much like this 7/10. – a lot of repetition

- sentences!!

- paragraphs

- different stories, poems

- different novel

Any old business that we haven’t finished yet?

Any questions?

Literary Terms

* plot

* plotline – any movie The Pursuit of Happyness

storytelling podcasts – people tell their own personal happy, sad, amazing stories: The Moth; This Is Actually Happening (intense stories- not for kids)

scary story podcast- Jim Harold’s Campfire

* foreshadowing

* flashback Do you ever have a flashback in your life? smell that reminds you of years ago, hear a song from when you were a kid

George Orwell – English author

Animal Farm

1984

Eric Blair -

poor family, not really poor

born in India, Burma

changed his name to George Orwell when he started to write

- injustice, fairness, poverty, poor people, powerful people

Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, 1984

sick with tuberculolis, TB, too sick to afford medicine 

He died at 48.

Animal Farm, 1984 -extremely popular, best-sellers, millions of copies

sad – he didn’t live to see his work become the great successes that they have become

George Orwell is one of my intellectual heroes.

I often wonder what he would think about our world today. In many ways he predicted the rise of authoritarian governments  and authoritarians leaders around the world.

You should read him.

Animal Farm, then 1984 (longer and higher level of diffulty)

Tests: Test on Ch 1-3, Test on Ch 4-6, Final test (essay)

10 chapters – one chapter per day for the next 2-3 weeks

HW Read Ch 1, make notes