Wednesday, 11 March 2026

P2 EF710 Class 26

Sentence work coming up:  causal verbs- maybe this week

                                                   sentence combining- after Spring Break

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about sentence quiz Friday, Quiz 1

·      “Midterm Self-Assessment Reflection”, getting ready for midterm recommendation Wednesday and Thursday

·      Midterm recommendations- half of the class

·      Animal Farm Crossword puzzles, Chapter 1&2

·      Animal Farm Finish Chapter 2

·      IF TIME Quoting section- Animal Farm

 

Thursday, March 12

·      Midterm recommendations

·      Sentence work

·      Animal Farm Chapter 3

·      Choose 20 words to review for the quiz.

 

Friday- final day before Spring Break

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 6

·      Quiz 1- sentence quiz (20m at the end of the class)

 

Two-week Spring Break

 

 

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Quiz 1- Friday- mix of simple, compound and complex sentences, value 6pts (20m)

 

Sample Quiz 1

Write an appropriate sentence for each.

1.tomorrow walk -suggests simple sentenc

2.so party  -suggests compound sent   SV, so SV.

3.friend however -suggests compound sent

4.store when – suggest complex- adv cl

5.after home – suggests complex or simple

6.if can -suggests complex sent

 

1.    Tomorrow night, we will walk around the park that is close to our apartment.

2.    Mei wants to go to the party, so she called me.

3.    Dora is my best friend; however, we rarely see each other.

4.    Jun will go to the store when he finishes work.

5.    We will clean our home after dinner. SIMPLE

We will clean our home after we have dinner. COMPLEX

6.    Let’s go for a hike if you can. COMPLEX

 

Quiz 2,3,4 – higher level

 

SIMPLE SENTENCE                 SV   SSV   SVV   Imperative   Interrogative

COMPOUND SENTENCE-      SV, SOBA SV.

                                                   SV; SV.

                                                   SV; TRANS, SV.

COMPLEX SENTENCE            adverb clause

                                                   noun clause

                                                   adjective clause

 

Review the work we have done on sentence types: simple, compound, and complex.

 

 

 

 

 

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Midterm recommendations

 

Registration for Quarter 4 will begin Monday, March 30th.

You will be emailed a link that morning.

I will go over the process if necessary on that Monday.

In order to register, you need a “Conditional Recommendation for early registration.”

It is piece of paper that you keep. Also, the teacher writes the recommendation in a file for the office.

 

-Attendance issue- late or absent a lot, chronic- often, all the time

-Recommendation- stay in current level or go to the next level based on marks so far

-% percentage- average of marks so far

                     -Tests

                     -RWs

                     -Spoken1 x/10

                     -Repl Test

For early registration, the level is about 60%.

The final pass mark in BC is only 50%.

At SHEC, we want the strongest students to move up.

If you are between 50-60%, you might be not be ready for the next level.

 

NOTE: Many people use SHEC as a way of improving English for life, jobs, etc.

The standards that the teachers follow are the BC Ministry of Education standards.

 

 

 

 

 

We have 3½ weeks left.

To come:

Test 1 more?

Essay 1 or 2?

Quizzes 3-4?

Spoken 2 x/15

Presentation x/10 – fun, hopefully if we have time

 

You have lots of opportunity to bring your marks up.

In general , people’s marks go up the second half of the course.

Today, this is just the midterm recommendation.

 

We will meet at my desk.

I will show you your marks and midterm average.

I will show you some comments based on the PLOs.

Feel free to take a picture of the comments. I am not able to email the comments to you. The comments will appear on your final report card.

 

Scenario

Midterm 52%- rec stay

Final 58%- go to next level

Choice- reg for same course on the 30th or wait until the end

reg for same course- change your registration at the end

Problem- some courses fill up fast, and there may not be room.

 

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 **

Animal Farm Chapter 2

 

  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

sun represents freedom, hope, 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

 

 

 

 

  the pigs can read and write- they are literate

most of the animals illiterate

  Snowball and Napoleon equals, working together

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

Commandment – serious rule

 

-based on Old Major’s speech

-simple rules that the animals can understand

missed smoking, money, trade

accident? or intentional?

 

  Can the other animals trust the pigs?

  “the milk had disappeared” (16)

We infer that the pigs steal the milk- the pigs are corrupt from the outset

infer(v) inference(n)

 

corrupt(adj) corruption(n)- dishonest, stealing, lying politicians or business people

 

VOCAB outset- beginning

 

old movie The Ten Commandments Charleton Heston

 

 

compliance test- Trump’s shoe test

 

 

Chapter 1&2 Crossword

Clues

Across and Down

3 across mandate  -  strong rule- commandment

 

triumph(n)  triumphant(adj)

 

preparation(n) preliminary(adj)

 

 

 

         

 

 

 

l  WHEN WE GET TO ANIMALISM

“The Tenets of Marxist Communism”, p.c.

“The Tenets of Animalism”

 

 

 

 

321

 

 

20class

 

l  “Using Quotations”, p.c.

LCD, give example

 

continue with quotation practice

Practice prompt “What was life like on Animal Farm?”

or Hymn poem

Analyze, BS, RC sentences w. “”

LCD and Blog

 

l  return Test #3, correct, rewrite

 

l  Finish “Chapter 2 Thought Questions”

 

l  Preload Chapter 3 “Chapter 3 Thought Questions”

 

l  HW   Read Chapter 3

                     “Chapter 3 Vocabulary Crossword”

                     Quiz #4 next class on Ch 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

21class

 

·      Quiz #4

A few good sentences, doesn’t have to be a full paragraph (15m)

 

·      DO QUOTATION PRES WORK INSTEAD OF “Thought Questions”

RUN THROUGH “Thought Questions” LATER IF NECESSARY OR USE FOR QUOTATION PRACTICE

 

·      “Chapter 3 Thought Questions”

Table discussion

Q.1    Workers control means of production- Marx and Trotsky

 

NEXT CLASS?

Continue w. “” work. Review

IndivSs practice answer with “”

T assist

 

 

l  Table groups present quotations from Chapter 3

In groups of 2-3, they discuss the meaning and significance of the quotations (one quotation per group).

Then they present the quotation to the class and talk about it for a minute or two.

         

Interesting quotations that point to important themes in the novel:

 

  “How they toiled and sweated...” (17)

 

  “Gee up, comrade” (17)

 

  “not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful” (17)

 

  “Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them though” (18)

 

  “Nobody shirked- or almost nobody” (18)

 

  “Donkeys live a long time” (19)

 

  “these two were never in agreement” (20)

 

  “Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could... be reduced to a single maxim...” (21)

 

  “the education of the young was more important...” (22)

 

  “who wants to see Jones come back” (23)

 

Teacher’s example

  “Everyone worked according to his capacity” (18)

  Refer to Marx “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”

 

MY LECTURE NOTES

  Mollie shirking

  Cat shamelessly lazy, shyster, charmer

  Old Benjamin “unchanged” “would express no opinion” “cryptic answer”

  regular Sunday ceremony, “the meeting”

  flag- symbolism, representative of ideal

  pigs put resolution- animals vote

  meeting ends “Beasts of England”

  Napoleon & Snowball “never in agreement” (20), beginnings of power struggle

  pigs have headquarters

  Animal committees, all failures, animals reverting to type

  literacy program, Benjamin “nothing worth reading” (21), most animals functionally illiterate, illiterate masses

  therefore Snowball reduces seven commandments to “single maxim”

  “essential principle of animalism” 4 legs good, 2 legs bad

  Napoleon takes young dogs to raise

  milk and apples go to the pigs, Squealer spins it with fallacious argument evoking science, specter of Mr. Jones, pigs sacrificing for animals

 

l  HW   We will continue with Chapter 3 work next class

                     Read “Hymn” and “Character”

 

 

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“A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.” -William Cobbett, journalist, pamphleteer, and farmer (1763-1835) 

 

***

 

 

AFTER CH 2

BIG SUMMATIVE TEST

REVIEW AND THEN

WHOLE CLASS

PARAGRAPH TEST WITH “”

In what ways are the pigs starting to control the farm?

 

 

 

 

 

 

22class

 

 

l  finish quotations from last class if necessary

 

l  Teach CHARACTERIZATION

“Character”, from “Literary Terms”

“Buzz Group Exercise”

 

·      BUSY WORK

“Animal Farm Character Sheet”, p.c.

Choose one character, pick 3-4 adjectives

                

l  Character description

 

l  Poem-a-Day        Excerpt from “Hymn” Rex Warner

                                    Small group discussion:

This is a poem about change.  What kind of change?

Find some word to describe the poet's attitude toward this change.

How can this poem apply to the attitude of the animal's in chapter 3 of Animal Farm.

 

l  Finish group discuss “Chapter 3 Thought Questions”

Review for test tomorrow in Chapters 1-3 MOVE TEST BEFORE ESSAY- PREVIOUS CLASS

 

l  HW   Testnext class on Chapters 1-3, Ss choose “” or not

          Finish essay work, Practice 3

 

 

 

 

 

23class

 

l  Return Quiz #4 and HW para from last class, review

 

 

l  Preload Chapter 4

“Chapter 4 Thought Questions”

“Chapter 4 Xwd”

 

l  TEST #4 (60m)

Test about first three chapters

 

l  HW   Read Chapter 4

          “Chapter 4 Thought Questions”

                     “Chapter 4 Vocabulary Crossword”

                     Finish pp60-62 essay

 

 

 

 

24class

 

 

l  “Power in a Union” Billy Bragg

Tells story of miner's strike

Talk about solidarity

Play song

 

·      MY LECTURE NOTES

·      Chapter 4 notes

 

  Snowball and Napoleon spread news of rebellion via pigeons

  Foxwood- Mr. Pilkington, “easy-going”

  Pinchfield- Mr. Frederick, “tough” “shrewd”

     enemies,

     England and Germany

  Frederick and Pilkington spread propaganda about Manor/Animal Farm

  “Wave of rebelliousness ran through the countryside” (25)

  “Beasts of England” spread

 

Battle of the Cowshed

  Jones and others attempt recapture of farm

  Snowball, defensive strategist, leader

  Where is Napoleon?

  Men “ignomious” retreat

  Boxer shaken, no desire to kill

  Mollie coward

  medals awarded

  Mr. Jones gun to be fired ceremoniously on anniversary of Battle of the Cowshed and the Rebellion (CAP)

  animals increasing use of symbolism, ritual

  KEY POINT-                          Snowball is the leader and the brave

                                              hero

Napoleon is nowhere to be found during this important battle

                                                                                                                           

l  “Chapter 4 Vocabulary Crossword”

 

l  Preload Chapter 5        “Chapter 5 Thought Questions”

 

l  HW   Read Chapter 5

                     “Chapter 5 Thought Questions”

          “Chapter 5 Vocabulary Crossword”

 

 

25class

 

l  correct, rewrite

-knowledge of content

-quality of sentences

-“” not copying, incorporating

 

 

l  MY LECTURE NOTES

l  Chapter 5 Notes

  Mollie increasingly disaffected, traitorous

consorting with Foxwood man, ribbons and sugar

  disappears, defector

 

  hard winter

  pigs planners

  Snowball and Napoleon, constant disagreement, different camps

  Snowball brilliant speaker

  Napoleon, sheep followers, interrupt Snowball's speeches

  Snowball innovator, inventor

  Napoleon- biding his time, scheming

 

  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 run off Snowball, the puppies from a few chapters ago

  Napoleon suspends Sunday meetings, voting, only special committee

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

  animals inarticulate or intimidated by dogs

 

  Squealer sent to spin Napoleon and smear Snowball

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

  raises specter of Mr. Jones coming back

  Squealer persuades, dogs growl

                                                                                                                 

 

l  “Chapter 5 Thought Questions”

Table discussion, make sure to discuss Q.11

 

·      HW

 

 

 

 

26Class

l  Preload Chapter 6                                                                                         

“Chapter 6 Thought Questions”

 

l  HW   Read Chapter 6

         

 

 

 

 

27class

 

·      Return “” Practice para from 2 classes ago, first attempt to put quoted material into a paragraph

Fundamental skill, work to improve

Revise and rewrite

 

·      Return Quiz #5 if marked, correct, rewrite

 

l  Comrade Duch story, picture

 

l  MY LECTURE NOTES

l  Chapter 6 Notes

 

  “worked like slaves” (40)

  Napoleon announces voluntary work on Sunday or “rations reduced by half”

misusing words intentionally, confuse the animals (not smart)

  windmill, major challenge breaking stones

  “desperate slowness” (41), “slow, laborious process” “exhausting effort”

  Boxer powerhouse/horse, get up earlier, tireless

  animals naturally better at some tasks (e.g.weeding)

 

  Napoleon opens trade (hay, eggs), employs Mr. Whymper, broker on commission

animals uneasy, going back on resolutions. Principles

  dogs growl,sheep bleat to silence dissenters (43)

  Squealer spins, lies, reshapes animals memories

  rumours Napoleon doing business with Mr. Pilkington or Mr. Fredericks (45)

 

  pigs move into farmhouse, sleep in beds

  Fourth Commandment amended (45)

  Squealer spins word 'bed'

  raises specter of Mr. Jones

  pigs sleeping in (46)

 

  animals proud of windmill, focus of labours, except Benjamin

  Napoleon blames destruction of windmill on Snowball

  plant evidence- footprints, Napoleon “pronounced them to be Snowball's” (48)

scapegoat – someone who you can blame, not actually guilty or responsible

 

FREE ADVICE #14: If you want to know where the problem is, go look

                  in the mirror. Only you can fix it. Don’t blame

                  anyone else. Don’t rely on anyone else.

 

  Napoleon commits to rebuild windmill

  At this point in the novel, the rebellion has been lost. Napoleon has taken over as a dictator.

 

l  Group discuss “Chapter 6 Thought Questions”

 

 

l  HW   Prepare for Ch4-6 test tomorrow

 

 

 

 

 

28class

 

l  Preload “Chapter 7 Thought Questions”

 

l  Review essay process (5m)

 

l  TEST #5

          Ch 4-6 multi-paragraph test

          “AF Test 4-6”

 

l  HW   Read Chapter 7

          “Chapter 7 Thought Questions”

          “Chapter 7-8 Xwd”

 

 

 

         

 

29class

 

l  Talk about essay

Time is always a challenge, budget time

 

l  “Literary Terms”, go over, many words we have used

 

l  “Chapter 7-8 Xwd”

 

l  Group discuss “Chapter 7 Thought Questions”

 

l  Chapter 7 Discussion Notes

 

  “bitter winter” humans waiting for them to fail, rallying source of pride for animals, READ FROM PHOTOCOPY ABOUT RUSSIAN WINTER

 

  humans believe Snowball not cause, walls too thin

  rebuild windmill “cruel work” (49)

  January rations short, starvation looms

  Napoleon proposes campaign to impress outsiders

  Napoleon appears in “ceremonial manner” (50) escorted by dogs

 

Q5

  hens to surrender eggs for sale

  hens stage rebellion

  hens starved out, capitulate, rebellion hushed up

 

Q6

  all misdeeds/mishaps attributed to Snowball

  Snowball causing trouble, cows “milked... in their sleep” (52)

  Napoleon frightens animals with bogeyman of Snowball

  Snowball and Jones not enemies “in league” (53)

  scapegoat

 

 

Q7

  Propaganda- Snowball in league with Mr. Jones from beginning

  Squealer retells Battle of the Cowshed- Napoleon heroic, Snowball cowardly

  Boxer disbelieving but then convinced (54, top of 55)

 

  Squealer appeals to authority (55)

 

Logical fallacies.

Good ways to trick people in an argument, as used by Squealer:

 

The Appeal to Authority is a fallacy with the following form:

Person A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S.

Person A makes claim C about subject S.

Therefore, C is true.

 

The Appeal to Fear is a fallacy with the following pattern:

Y is presented (a claim that is intended to produce fear).

Therefore claim X is true (a claim that is generally, but need not be, related to Y in some manner).

 

The Relativist Fallacy is committed when a person rejects a claim by asserting that the claim might be true for others but is not for          him/her.  This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:

Claim X is presented.

Person A asserts that X may be true for others but is not true for him/her.

Therefore A is justified in rejecting X.

 

The Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure:

Favorable emotions are associated with X.

Therefore, X is true.

This fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true. More formally, this sort of "reasoning" involves the substitution of various means of producing strong emotions in place of evidence for a claim. If the favorable emotions associated with X influence the person to accept X as true because they "feel good about X," then he has fallen prey to the fallacy.

 

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/relativist-fallacy.html

 

 

 

  Squealer spreads paranoia among animals “we have reason to think that some of Snowball's secret agents are lurking among us at the moment” (55)

 

Q9

  Napoleon with medals begins first purge (55)

  pigs killed

  Pigs, hens, goose, sheep give false confessions and are slaughtered

Why?

  animals shaken “bloodshed... happening among them” (57)

 

  after meeting Boxer wants to solve problem by working harder (57)- still loyal                                                                             

 

  BIG QUESTION  “Why do the animals admit to crimes they haven't committed?

 

Section on false confessions, false confessions to crimes common phenomena

 

Convictions based on false confessions in Japan https://californiainnocenceproject.org/2013/01/japan-concerned-over-false-confessions/

 

     “Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale”

teach from doc

 

 

Question 10

  Boxer- Boxer shakes off dogs, looks to Napoleon, still loyal

 

  Discuss Clover’s thoughts (pp58-59)

Discuss point

  Clover “this was not what they had aimed at” (58)

  READ PASSAGE pp58-59

compare to pp13-14

  turning point, pivotal moment in story

  the dream is lost, the farm is not theirs

sang “BoE” mournfully, Napoleon banishes song- better society realized

 

l  animals on knoll overlooking farm “clear spring evening” (58)

  Animal Farm “desirable... place”

 

·      HW

 

 

 

Around this time

·      10m Sunday Edition about Putin

Play “SundayEditionPutin” mp3  http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/sundayedition_20150320_84733.mp3

 

 

 

 

30class

 

l  Keep on with Literary Terms

 

 

 

l  revisit Chapter 7, rewriting of history

Squealer rewriting history of Battle of the Cowshed, 4th Commandment

Orwell “Who controls the past…” pic

 

“Doctored photo King” “Doctored photo Stalin” “Doctored photo Mao” “Doctored photo Mubarak” “Cosmonaut Photos” “Fenton Crimea” “Fenton Crimea Original” pictures

 

l  finish Chap 7 questions or last class’ work, esp Ques 11 w. “”

 

l  “Epitaph on a Tyrant” W.H. Auden, p.c.

 

l  Preload“Chapter 8 Thought Questions”

 

l  HW   Read Chapter 8

          Quiz on literary terms next class

 

 

 

 

l  “Chapter 8 Thought Questions”

Students discuss at tables.

Discuss as class.

Students choose one question and answer in a short paragraph. Include quoted material. Classroom practice.May finish for HW if they wish.

 

l  Ch8 Table discussions, one question each

 

l  Chapter 8 Discussion Notes

 

  6th Commandment changed

“none cared to mention it” (61)

  push to finish windmill

  Squealer's quota reports, overinflated, lies

  animals losing perspective on pre-revolutionary life

                                                      

  Napoleon increasingly withdrawn, elitist (62)

appears with dogs and rooster

formal grandiose titles (62)

  Napoleon credited with every success

  Napoleon song (63)

  propaganda Snowball plot to murder Napoleon- guard dogs, taster

         

          LINK TO STALINIST HONOURIFICS

READ FROM PHOTOCOPY ABOUT APPLAUSE

         

N. Korean TV anchor, Ri Chun Hee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7J2Nnl7Ano&app=desktop

 

N. Korean mourners, Kim Jong Il:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccsNr9UJeVY

 

  Mr. Frederick vilified

 

  more Snowball propaganda, gander false confession, suicide

MORE FALSE CONFESSIONS

 

  Snowball not received “Animal Hero, First Class”

censured for cowardice

  Squealer remakes animals' memories (65)

 

  windmill finished, Napoleon Mill, foreshadowing “explosives would lay them low this time” (66)

 

  180 switch from Frederick to Pilkington- wood sold

  all confusion blamed on Snowball (67)

  wood “carted away at high speed”

  counterfeit cash from wood to buy machinery for windmill-

  animals prepare for attack from Frederick

  guns, animals fall back, Pilkington message “Serves you right” (69)

  Benjamin sees men to blast windmill, destroyed

  animals counter-attack, bloody melee, Napoleon in rear

  Squealer (absent during fight) spins defeat (71)

  Boxer wounded, weary

  Napoleon awards to self “Order of Green Banner” (72)

 

  whiskey, pigs drunk, hungover

  sow field of barley (73)

  Squealer caught changing Fifth Commandment

 

 

l  POEM PROJECT

Pretend you are one of the animals from Animal Farm.  Write a short four-line poem expressing your thoughts or feelings.  The poem can be serious or funny, but it must rhyme.

                    

Rhyming dictionary is helpful.

 

 

Examples from previous classes:

         

          I hate living on Animal Farm

          The pigs live in the house and I live in the barn
          I'm freezing cold- they're nice and warm

          They get the apples- I get none.

         

                    

          I am Napoleon, the big pig boss

          Because I'm clever I'm leader of the farm

                     Have to watch out for those who'll do me harm

          Especially Boxer the big dumb horse

 

Finish for homework.  Email to me by midnight two days:

          ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

 

·      HW   Finish 4-line poems for midnight deadline

          Finish Chapter 8 paragraph answer with “”

Read “Money and Corruption/ I'm Your Man”, p.c.

 

 

 

 

32class

 

l  Finish poems, email by tonight

ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

 

·      “Theme”, p.c.

Explain, discuss

 

·      Play “Money and Corruption/ I'm Your Man” Ray Davies

 

·      Review essay process (p31)

 

l  REVIEW

WtC “Comparing and Contrasting” (pp158-164)

“Compare/ Contrast” graphic organizers

“Connectors of Comparison and Contrast” (165-167)

WE DISCUSSED THIS WORK EARLIER IN CONTEXT OF PARA WRITING

Introduce structure for essay

Discuss “multiparagraph essay” “in paragraphs”

Freedom from strict 5-paragraph style

 

·      Begin practice essay

Discussion “What common themes are addressed in “Money and Corruption/I’m Your Man” and Animal Farm?

Analyze, BS w.””, OL

Begin planning essay using “Academic Essay Outline Format”

 

l  HW   Students will write good copy of essay next class

          May use notes and novel for citation

 

 

 

 

33Class

 

l  Essay Compare and/or contrast themes in Animal Farm

                               and “Money and Corruption/ I’m Your Man”.

 

l  HW   Read Chapter 9

Preload Chapter 9 “Chapter 9 Thought Questions”

 

 

 

 

34class

 

l  return Quiz #6

 

l  “Democracy” Langston Hughes

Demos- people   cracy-ruled by, governed by

“Of the people, by the people, for the people”

aristocracy, autocracy, monarchy, theocracy

root words

 

l  Ch9-10 Xwd

 

Chapter 9 Discussion Notes

  Boxer hurt, keeps working, not show pain

  Clover nurse, Benjamin worried

  looking forward to his retirement- good pension plan

 

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

Squealer spins “readjustment”, 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

  fluttering flags, empty bellies

  AnimalFarm-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

  Squealer spins van/ death

  pigs drunk on whiskey

Where did the money for the whiskey come from?

 

l  Group discuss “Chapter 9 Thought Questions”

Read “Pie in the Sky” after Q5 about Sugarcandy Mountain

 

·      TEST #6 Finish essay from last class (1hr20m)

**SOME OTHER ACTIVITY**

Put up some student 4-line poems

 

·      HW   Read Chapter 10

                    Consider “Chapter 10 Thought Questions”

 

 

 

 

35class

 

Rejoice, friends! that we are alive

                        And that we're young and vigorous.

                        Never has there been a year like this,

                        And never has youth been so blessed

 

                        For we can stand and we can march

                        Where the morning dawns and the evening sinks.

                        The greatest of all epochs

                        Puts its mark upon our young hearts.

 

                        And no matter what may befall any one of us

                        He shall have seen this proud year.

 

                        Bruno Frank

 

1.    What sentiment is expressed here?

2.    How would the animals of Animal Farm feel about this poem?

At the beginning of the novel?At the end?

 

 

l  Chapter 10 Discussion 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

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

  farm prosperous- 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.”

  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?

 

 

l  Group discuss “Chapter 10 Thought Questions”

 

l  “Plot Line” group exercise

 

l  Inventory of poems and songs for review

 

l  HW   Begin reviewing for final test

 

 

 

 

36class

 

l  “All You Need to Know About Adolf Eichmann”

banality of evil

 

l  Watch movie.  Students watch forfidelity to novel.

 

l  Summative test next class, relating themes discussed in novel, poems, movie.  Take class time to review.

 

l  Discuss differences between book and movie.

 

l  Collect books next class

 

l  Return Test #6

 

l  HW Animal Farm test next class

 

 

 

 

 

37class

 

l  Animal Farm test

 

l  Collect novels

 

 

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