1. October 20, 2008 Agenda: Correct AF quiz Symbolism in AF continued…
Homework:
Read chapter 10 and complete a Significant Moment. Your entire collection of Significant Moments is due WEDNESDAY.
AF Vocabulary quiz and packet due Wednesday (chapters 5-10)

2. What was the “Spontaneous Demonstration” and what happened there?
“There were more songs, more speeches, more processions. Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm. At the appointed time the animals would leave their work and march round the precincts of the farm in military formation…” (p.79)

3. What did Frederick give Napoleon in exchange for the pile of timber?
“The bank notes were forgeries! Frederick had got the timber for nothing!” (p. 70)

4. How did Frederick destroy the windmill?
“ ‘Do you not see what they are doing? In another moment they are going to pack blasting powder into that hole.’ ” (p. 71)

5. What did the pigs do with the money from Boxer’s demise?
“No one stirred in the farmhouse before noon on the following day, and the word went round that from somewhere or another the pigs acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whiskey.” (p. 86)

6. What is an allegory?
Characters make sense on a literal level, but are designed to represent other characters, settings, and events.

7. October 21, 2008 Agenda: Thinking Question (aka EXTRA CREDIT)
Chapter 10 Review Round-Up
Homework:
Your entire collection of Significant Moments is due WEDNESDAY. Make sure they are legible, in order, and that you have followed directions. Points will be deducted for missing quotes, one sentence responses, and pig-like work.
AF Vocabulary quiz and packet due Wednesday (chapters 5-10)

8. October 23, 2008 Agenda: Please grab your writer’s notebook
Quickwrite: Self-Portrait
Portraits and Portraiture Lecture
The Animal Farm Character Portrait
Homework:
Finish the Character Organizer for tomorrow.

9. Portrait Quickwrite
If you were to have a portrait painted of yourself, which physical aspects and/or aspects of your would you want the artist to capture? What would your portrait look like?

10. Animal Farm
Character Portrait

11. What is a Portrait? Comes from the French word “to portray”
Think of “traits,” or characteristics
Portraiture is a visual representation of individual people, distinguished by references to the subject's character, social position, wealth, or profession.

12. What is a Portrait?
Portraits can include only the head of the subject, or they can depict the shoulders and head, the upper torso, or an entire figure shown either seated or standing.
Portraits can show individuals either self-consciously posing in ways that convey a sense of timelessness or captured in the midst of work or daily activity.

13. Portrait of Marie Antoinette. Portrait by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

14. Portrait of George Washington

15. Czar Nicholas II

16. What is a Portrait? However, exact replication is not always the goal.
Portraitists often strive for exact visual likenesses.
However, exact replication is not always the goal.
Artists may intentionally alter the appearance of their subjects by embellishing or refining their images to emphasize or minimize particular qualities (physical, psychological, or social) of the subject.

17. The Arnolfini Wedding. Portrait by Jan Van Eyck