English 2 - October 28th Agenda Warm-Up: Freedom Trotsky vs. Stalin Reading Parallels to Animal Farm Pig Packets Homework You Will Need Animal Farm Writing implement 2-3 notebook pages Exit Ticket ½ page
Warm-Up: Looking Back Did you predict Napoleon defeating Snowball and expelling him from the farm? If so, what gave you clues? If not, why did it surprise you?
Stalin vs. Trotsky 1880’s: Revolutionaries in Russia adopt Karl Marx’s ideals of a state run by the workers. 1920: Bolshevik revolution succeeds; king and nobility stripped of power, beginning the United Soviet Socialist Republic. 1920’s: Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, is ill. Two of his followers, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, compete to be the next leader.
Stalin vs. Trotsky Reflection Are Napoleon’s and Stalin’s reasons for seizing power the same or different? What are their specific reasons?
Homework: Due Friday, 10/30 Read Chapters 6 and 7. Complete a 1 page dialectical journal. Focus: Evaluate the pigs as leaders
Exit Ticket Was Napoleon justified in seizing power in Animal Farm? Explain. Was Stalin justified in seizing power in Russia? Explain.