1. English 2 - October 28th Agenda Warm-Up: Freedom Trotsky vs. Stalin
Reading
Timeline + Questions
Parallels to Animal Farm
Homework
You Will Need
Animal Farm
Writing implement
Timeline Handout
2-3 notebook pages

2. Warm-Up: Freedom
Comrades! How awesome is being in charge of our own farm and doing everything for ourselves?
SO AWESOME!
I am a human sympathizer and a traitor.
Explain:

3. 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.

4. Trotsky Can’t Catch a Break
Was Leon Trotsky a good comrade for the Bolsheviks? Justify your answer using 3 details from the timeline.
Imagine you are Stalin. Why does Trotsky have to go? Justify your answer using 2 details from the timeline.

5. Parallels to Animal Farm
Imagine you are Napoleon. Why does Snowball have to go? Justify your answer with two examples from the book.
Are Napoleon’s reasons for getting rid of Snowball similar or different from Stalin’s for Trotsky? Explain.

6. Homework: Due Friday, 10/30 Read Chapters 6 and 7.
Complete a 1 page dialectical journal.
Focus: Evaluate the pigs as leaders

7. Exit Ticket
Was Napoleon justified in seizing power in Animal Farm? Explain.
Was Stalin justified in seizing power in Russia? Explain.