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For homework, do some research to prepare you for our next novel, Animal
Farm. Answer/define the following. Take good notes and record your sources
please.
1. Animal Farm. What is it? A novel, novella, satire, allegory?
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Define the following:
Novel:
Novella:
Satire:
Allegory:
Fable:
2. Who wrote it? Research the author.
When was he born? Where?
What motivated him to write this novel?
3. What is it about? Animals on a farm or something deeper?
Explain how this novel can be considered an allegory. What are the two different
stories being told here?
4. There are some other important terms you need to know. Please define these as
well:
Utopia
Utopian Fiction
Dystopia
Dystopian Fiction
Totalitarianism Government
Democracy
Propaganda
5. Why do you think the author chose animals and the setting of a farm to
deliver his particular message?
Tonights homework: read chapter 1. You will be given reading quizzes each block, so
read carefully. You will be taking your journal home to complete your journal responses.
Overall Guidelines for Journal Responses for Each Chapter
1. Each answer must include at least two bits of textual support with proper citations.
For a citation- include the quote followed by page number like this:
__________________ (4). Be sure to correctly cite your support. Your responses
should be no less than a solid a page to one full page.
2. Journal Responses from each chapter (or set of chapters) are due at the beginning of
the block on due date.
3. Your questions must be reflective and include deeper insights. Dont give a blah,
typical answer; really dig deep into the novel and think critically about it. This novel
has a VERY important lesson for us all, and well miss it if we just skim the surface
and complete the assignment just to get by.
4. You may be asked to share your responses, so please take this seriously!
5. As always, proofread and work on sentence fluency.
6. Questions for Journals will be given the block before. If you are absent. Please check
the website: http://mrsjenkinsenglish.weebly.com
Big Goal this Unit: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of
what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
2. Look closely again at Old Majors speech. What would you say the tone of this
speech is? Remember tone is the emotion we derive (or pick up on) from a
passage of a text. Tone can reveal a writers attitude toward a subject. If Old
Major is the writer of this speech here, what is his attitude towards humans?
What specific words does he use to help create this tone for you? Be specific. Is
there a tone shift? Use text evidence.
3. Pick one animal introduced in the novel. Directly characterize him or her using 2
adjectives not included in the novel. Support your adjectives with textual
evidence. Include page numbers.
4. Think about your life as an American citizen. Is there any injustice being down
towards you or others now? Is there anything wrong with our current way of
doing things (educationally, politically, etc.) Look again at Old Majors speech.
Create a similar one (about a page in your journal) where you deliver a speech
about the injustices that are making your life or ones life miserable.
5. What freedoms do we take for granted in the USA? Do you think we have too
much freedom? What does freedom mean to you?
ANIMAL FARM RESPONSE JOURNAL CHAPTERS 4 5 Overall Guidelines 1. Each
answer must include at least two bits of textual support with proper citations. Be sure
to correctly cite your support. Your responses should be no less than 1 full pages. 2.
Questions from each chapter (or set of chapters) are due every Friday at the beginning
of the hour (typed, double spaced, name and hour at the top, staple this sheet to your
answers). Also, please include the number of the question to which you responded. 3.
Your questions must be reflective and include deeper insights. Give me more than just
the typical answer; really dig deep into the novel and think critically about it. This novel
has a VERY important lesson for us all, and well miss it if we just skim the surface and
complete the assignment just to get by. 4. You may be asked to share your responses, so
please take this seriously! I want us to really dig deep into this novel, get to the heart of
it and really understand it, not just learn the surface material. Responses may also be
used to jumpstart class discussion. 5. Here comes the tricky part: I will divide you into
groups at the beginning of the unit. Each week, Group A will answer a different
question within the selected chapters than Group B. The correlation will not be the
same each week (i.e., Group A will not always answer Question 1 and so on), and I
reserve the right to change up the groups. Therefore, WAIT to see what questions are
assigned to your particular class! 6. As always, proofread and work on sentence fluenc
QUESTIONS: CHAPTERS 4 5 1. Language is powerful. Think of how the Pigs use
language to manipulate the others animals on the farm. How do you manipulate
language in your own life? Reflect on your variances of tone, gestures that add to your
language, word choice, etc. 2. A lot of times, people dont understand how the animals
could blindly follow everything Napoleon dictates to them. The same could be said of
the Germans during WWII. What do you think? Are people more apt to follow their
leaders or critically think for themselves? Why or why not? How does this tie into
propaganda?
QUESTIONS: CHAPTERS 6 -8 1. Why do you think all of those animals confessed to
plotting with Snowball? Do you think they really did? Explain. 2. Reflect back onto
Chapters 1-3. Is Animal Farm a utopia? Why or why not? How has your answer changed
since Chapters 1-3?
Some critics say that the moral of Animal Farm is not could this happen again but
how is it happening already? Relate how you think the events on animal farm
(corruption, tyranny, etc) are still taking place in the world today. 2. What did you learn
from this story? List two themes and provide textual support for each theme.
(Reminder: themes are lessons we learn from a story that apply to our own lives. They
do NOT mention particular character names or events in the story. However, the textual
support will make such specific references. Also, often times it is the authors intention
that we learn from characters mistakes.) 3. Why do you think Orwell made the
characters animals and not humans? Does this add to or subtract from the satire of the
novel. Why or why not?