Monday -- Today you answered your first journal entry promp for Animal Farm on chapter IV (4). If you missed class today, please be sure to complete this by the end of the novel. We then moved to a discussion about the best possible candidate for the leader of the farm -- Snowball or Napoleon. Tomorrow you will debate this topic! Be ready to engage the other side.
HW:
1. Read the rest of chapter 5 and all of chapter 6
2. Vocab Quiz #1 for Animal Farm is Tuesday, 10/8
Tuesday -- You will take your first vocab quiz on the novel and then return to your debate groups to either finish your flyers, or use them in our whole class debate. May the strongest argument win!! We will then begin our discussion of propaganda!
HW: Read chapter #7 in Animal Farm
Wednesday -- Today we will finish the introduction to propaganda and begin looking for moments of it in the text!
HW:
1. Read chapter 8 in Animal Farm
2. Complete second list of vocab for Thursday, 10/10
Thursday -- Today you will check your vocab against the master list for list #2. We will then examine the differences between the Battle of the Cowshed and the Battle of the Windmill. During this discussion, we will pay particular attention to the ways that "history" is getting twisted! We will then begin watching the film version of the novel.
HW: Please finish the novel over the long weekend and enjoy Columbus Day! :)
HW:
1. Read the rest of chapter 5 and all of chapter 6
2. Vocab Quiz #1 for Animal Farm is Tuesday, 10/8
Tuesday -- You will take your first vocab quiz on the novel and then return to your debate groups to either finish your flyers, or use them in our whole class debate. May the strongest argument win!! We will then begin our discussion of propaganda!
HW: Read chapter #7 in Animal Farm
Wednesday -- Today we will finish the introduction to propaganda and begin looking for moments of it in the text!
HW:
1. Read chapter 8 in Animal Farm
2. Complete second list of vocab for Thursday, 10/10
Thursday -- Today you will check your vocab against the master list for list #2. We will then examine the differences between the Battle of the Cowshed and the Battle of the Windmill. During this discussion, we will pay particular attention to the ways that "history" is getting twisted! We will then begin watching the film version of the novel.
HW: Please finish the novel over the long weekend and enjoy Columbus Day! :)