Honors World Literature Week 4

Do Now: Monday, September 21 st 2015 Clear your desk of everything except the following: 1. Half Sheet (number 1-15) 2. Vocabulary Quiz 3. Appositives Quiz

Objectives SWBAT show mastery of Appositives and new vocabulary. SWBAT use rhetorical appeals to write a proposal to the intended audience

Vocabulary & Mastery Quizzes 15 minutes total

Write a response using all of the rhetorical appeals to persuade the idea presented in a topic. Choose your Audience. 1. Curfew time 2. School Uniforms (socks, dress-down, lanyards, etc) 3. Off Campus at the sophomore level 4. Backpacks 5. lunch Rhetoric Writing Prompts

Homework Read & Annotate Chapter 3 of Animal Farm

Do Now: Tuesday/ Wednesday, September 22 nd and 23rd 2015 Lesson 2A

Objectives SWBAT Identify the differences between each animal’s character traits and determine why Orwell characterizes each animal this way. SWBAT Create an image of each animal based on actions and facts about each character. SWBAT Understand the causes of the Russian Revolution and important people involved.

Allegory & Parallelism What is an allegory? An allegory is a story in which there is a one to-one correspondence between characters and events on a deeper level of meaning. Animal Farm is the following: an allegory in which characters and events correspond directly to people and events of the Russian Revolution. an allegory which the author, George Orwell, uses as a vehicle to speak out against global dictatorship.

Brief Overview of the Russian Revolution Read through you handout & Take note of the events and key people who played a role in the Russian Revolution. Preguntas?

Animal Farm: Character Comparison We will complete the following chart as we read through Animal Farm and meet the characters. It will not take long for you to see the parallels between the fictional characters Orwell created and their historical counterparts. Bring the chart to class every day. You will be responsible for completing the chart on your own and as we read together. This will be very helpful for quizzes, assignments and projects. Complete at least 2 characters with a partner.

Character Depiction Assignment Choose an animal from the text. Draw the animal, based on characteristics from the text. Use 4 pieces of evidence that helped with your depiction. Create a one sentence claim that artfully describes who that amimal is. Worth 10 points

Objectives SWBAT Read Orwell’s short story, “Shooting an Elephant” and determine Orwell’s purpose in writing this story.

“Shooting an Elephant” Written and narrated by George Orwell Written in 1936 Setting: Burman After leaving school, Orwell lived in Burman and worked as an officer

Read & Annotate Pull the document from the wiki. Answer Questions on the word document. Submit answers to me. After using the wiki, you should not have a reason to use the internet. Any inappropriate uses of technology will result in 4 Demerits.

Overview of the text “Shooting an Elephant” is a classic example of an author using a personal experience to illuminate a political institution and its social implications: here, the experience of shooting an elephant and the British Raj (the imperial government of India and Burma), and colonialism itself. Orwell carefully and precisely renders setting, action, and character (himself) by developing his responses, feelings, and thoughts with novelistic density. He braids into the narrative the personal responses to the experience: “I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool” (paragraph 14). Orwell, whom you are likely to know as the author of Animal Farm and 1984, served in the British police force in Burma after leaving school. The experience heightened his political consciousness. “Shooting an Elephant” is also an essay about how the expectations of others force us to play roles, to behave in ways that we do not choose, and to behave as selves other than the selves we think we are—worse selves, as in this essay, and sometimes better selves as well. Orwell, though he does not use the term, is conscious of what we now refer to as the “social construction of reality.” Yet, in “Shooting an Elephant,” he both affirms and denies it: that is, he presents role-playing as educative. “I perceived in this moment,” he writes, “that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys” (paragraph 7).