Animal Farm
Chapter 2 = 18:00
Chapter 3 = 34:05
Chapter 4 = 47:58
Chapter 5 = 58:27
Chapter 6 = 1:18:17
Chapter 7 = 1:35:41
Chapter 8 = 1:58:50
"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."
Animal Farm, by George Orwell, author of 1984, is one of Britain's most popular novels. It is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions, idealism, power, and corruption.
Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges..."Animal Farm".
This is George Orwell's excellent satire on the corrupting influence of power and the history of a revolution that went wrong.
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Ch. 7 Summary/Analysis:
Unit Objectives
Unit Objectives
Read and analyze the allegory used in George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Identify the use of allegory as a rhetorical device
Understand Animal Farm within a historical context
Guiding Questions:
How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegory, and of what is in an allegory?
What are the rhetorical components of this allegory?
How is the use of allegory as a rhetorical device different from simply laying out a non-fictional account, or an historical or statistical analysis of the period and the rise of the Communist Party?
How is Orwell’s use of allegory rhetorically successful?
Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.9 Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.7.1c Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.2b Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
"Beasts of England"
ANIMAL FARM (full book).pdfVintage photographs of Pre-Revolution Russian Empire
PROPAGANDA
During this unit, we'll be taking a look at the types of propaganda employed by the pigs to control the other animals. You'll find a review of each propaganda technique at this link:
https://prezi.com/f09dsbbz-tna/edit/#110_30863873
ALLEGORY:
Allegory is a device in which characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. Allegory has been used widely throughout the history of art, and in all forms of artwork. A reason for this is that allegory has an immense power of illustrating complex ideas and concepts in a digestible, concrete way. In allegory a message is communicated by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric; a rhetorical allegory is a demonstrative form of representation conveying meaning other than the words that are spoken.
As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. One of the best known examples is Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave." In this allegory, there are a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to the allegory, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality.
RHETORIC:
The study of rhetoric is the study of language, especially as it is used to argue and persuade.