Dramatizing Adaptations of animal farm Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School March 6, 2015 Dramatizing Adaptations of animal farm

Preliminaries Briefly reconvene in your small groups to make any last-minute changes to their scripts, to entitle their plays, to plan props usage, to change into costumes, etc.

Objectives: The students will be able to perform one- act dramatizations based on conflicting versions of the Battle of the Cowshed. The students will be able to interpret other students’ plays based on conflicting versions of the Battle of the Cowshed.

Focus Lesson: Dramatizing… Each group will perform their original one- act play based on an adaptation of Animal Farm. As each group presents their play, students in the audience should take notes in response to the following questions: How was the central conflict developed in this play? Which character(s) brought the factual account of the Battle of the Cowshed to light? How was the conflict resolved?

Homework Read Animal Farm ch. 8 by tomorrow.