Monday, 12 June 2023

EF 7 11 Class 32 AF Chap5

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Return tests Test#5

Optional rewrite for a bonus point

Focus on sentences, always.

·      Animal Farm Chapter 5

·      Sentence work-  complex sentence

identify simple, compound, complex

 

Tuesday

·      Begin sentence combining work

·      Animal Farm Chapter 6

 

 

Wednesday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 6

 

Thursday

·      Test AF Ch 4-6 paragraph with “”

·      Animal Farm Chapter 7

 

Friday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 7

·      Essays

·      Listening

 

Final week – group presentations (more to come)

 

 

 

 

U-pick

 

Career Paths       https://www.welcomebc.ca/Work-in-B-C/Career-

Paths-for-Skilled-Immigrants

          -grants, support, training

          -retraining, recredentializing

 

Chuckanut Drive- south of Bellingham

 

 

 

Test#4

-         knowledge of the novel GOOD!

-         sentences - Focus for growth

 

 

EXAMPLES

‘against’ (preposition)

The animals againsted Mr Jones. ww

The animals V fought/worked/conspired/were against Mr Jones.

 

 

The pigs had the privilege of eating the “apples and milk”.

We had the privilege of meeting Jack Ma last night.

 

The simplfied slogan “Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad” replaced/superceded the Seven Commandants for the benefit of the “stupider” animals.

 

Boxer is full of energy (noun) and hardworking (adjective). parallelism

FIX

Boxer is full of energy and drive/ambition. (noun)

Boxer is energetic and hardworking. (adjective).

 

 

“Identify the folowing sentences as simple, compound, or complex”

Ex38 1. Why are you drinking that cold cup of tea? SIMPLE

 

Why are you GERUND? What are you laughing? SIMPLE

Gerund – ‘ing’ noun

 

 

 

MY LECTURE NOTES

l  Chapter 5 Notes

  Mollie increasingly disaffected, traitorous, traitor,

 

famous American traitor Benedict Arnold

 

o   consorting with Foxwood man, ribbons and sugar

  disappears, defector, betrayal(n), betrays(v) the other animals

consort – spend time with the enemy

 

defector – someone who escapes their country, usually a repression regime

 

  hard winter

  pigs planners

  Snowball and Napoleon, constant disagreement, different camps

  Snowball brilliant speaker, gifted orator

  Napoleon, sheep followers, interrupt Snowball's speeches

  Snowball innovator, inventor

  Napoleon- biding his time, waiting for the right moment, scheming patiently

 

  Windmill, Snowball's dream for electricity, mechanization

  Napoleon pees on plans- rare bit of humour in novel

  animals- two factions, except Benjamin

  Napoleon- train for defense

  Snowball- incite rebellion elsewhere

  vote about windmill- Snowball wins over animals with eloquence

  Napoleon's dogs (the nine puppies) run off Snowball, chase him off the farm, the puppies from a few chapters ago

  Napoleon is in charge, he assumes command of the farm- suspends Sunday meetings, voting, only special committee

  Animals only “salute the flag” and sing “Beasts of England” (36) –ritualistic, human-like behaviour

  animals inarticulate (unable to put their ideas into words) or intimidated by dogs

articulate – ability to speak well

literate- ability to write well

 

inarticulate- tongue-tied

illiterate-

 

stutter- The King’s Speech

often stuck on hard consonant sounds ‘t’ ‘k’

 

 

  Squealer sent to ‘spin’ Napoleon and smear Snowball

  discredit Snowball, call into question role in Battle of the Cowshed

smear / discredit (v) – to try to damage someone’s reputation or good name

 

  raises specter of Mr. Jones coming back

  Squealer persuades, dogs growl

 

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