1. 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

2. 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?

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. Stalin vs. Trotsky Reflection
Are Napoleon’s and Stalin’s reasons for seizing power the same or different?
What are their specific reasons?

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

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