Eng7/10 Oct9

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Today’s agenda:

 

1.   Animal Farm Ch 2

2.   “ “ quoting

3.   HW  Animal Farm Ch 3, make notes

 

Tuesday - Sentence combining quiz

 

 

 

Thanksgiving is Sunday, no school Monday

long weekend

 

Thanksgiving – harvest festival, early fall, celebrate successful harvest, farming, agrarian times

 

traditional foods for TG -turkey, pumpkin (pie), potatoes (roast, mashed), squash, cranberry sauce

 

- big! cheap! lots of it, everybody can eat a lot,

feast

- nice dinner with family and friends

- turkey narcosis – feel sleepy after you eat turkey

“Turkey always wins!”

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Animal Farm Chapter 2

“Chapter 2 Thought Questions”, p.c.

Exposition – beginning of the plot, hardest part of a novel

My rule for myself – I give a novel 50 pages to grab me. After 50 pages, I decide whether to keep reading it or put it down.

I give a novel a chance, especially if other people say they enjoyed it.

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MY 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

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.**

 Boxer and Clover “most faithful disciples” (11)

disciple – religious, follows a religious teacher

religious government – theocracy

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”

Put on overhead and discuss if you are familiar with it. 

GOOD TIME TO BRING UP 

 Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia fruit seller- self-immolation

one person can set off a movement/ revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHw_auqod6Y

show picture? “Mohamedfire”

 erase remnants of Mr. Jones reign

 READ PASSAGE pp13-14

Beginning of the new farm, morning after the rebellion

The animals have just come to control the farm

“But they woke at dawn as usual…”

symbolic – dawn, new day, new beginning

“speechless admiration” “could hardly believe it was all their own” (14)

• For scene when animals are in field after rebellion (pp13-14)

“Choked-up feelings of emotion at liberation are the surest sign that a moment of disillusion and disappointment is at hand.”

Christopher Hitchens. A Long Short War:ThePostponed Liberation of Iraq , Penguin: Toronto, 2003

so dark, so cynical

 Snowball and Napoleon equals, working together

 Snowball better writer (15), intellectual, learned- renames farm, paints seven commandments, allusion to The Ten Commandments, Old Testament

-based on Old Major’s speech

 Napoleon steals the milk- corrupt from the outset