1. Entry Task: Dr. Seuss How many of you have read Dr. Seuss books? Which ones do you remember? What are they about? What lessons can you learn from them? Write down as many as you can remember and what they’re about/what lesson they are teaching you in your journals.

2. The more that you read, The more things you will know, The more that you learn, The more places you’ll go. Allegory, Satire & Dr. Seuss

3. Allegory A work with two layers of meaning, both figurative and literal.

4. Dr. Seuss & Allegory What if I told you that when you were a little kid reading Dr. Seuss, you were reading about racism and nuclear war? Dr. Seuss is famous for his use of allegory in his children’s books, which makes them seem more like books made for adults.

5. Yertle the Turtle is an allegory for Hitler and Discrimination. Yertle the Turtle Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =SpxMcJ3-MTE Take notes on the literal and figurative meaning that you see!

6. Discuss what you came up with at your tables! Add anything to your notes that you were missing before!

7. The Butter Battle Book is an allegory for the Cold War. https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=aXEI3AzI-es Take notes on your graphic organizer as to the literal and figurative meanings you see within the story as you watch. https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=aXEI3AzI-es

8. Discuss what you came up with at your tables! Add anything to your notes that you were missing before!

9. Yooks & Zooks= USA and Russia Buttering your bread a certain way= capitalism/democracy vs. communism (different views of government) Building bigger weapons= Nuclear arms race Ends with a questioning note: Will mankind blow itself up? Does not necessarily end happily!

10. How is The Butter Battle Book an example of satire? What is Dr. Seuss criticizing in this story? Who is he making fun of?

11. The Sneetches is an allegory for racism. Civil Rights Movement and/or Nazis vs. Jews https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=qPhOZzsi_6 Q Take notes on the figurative and literal meanings you see. https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=qPhOZzsi_6 Q

12. Discuss what you came up with at your tables! Add anything to your notes that you were missing before!

13. Star Belly Sneetches= Nazis Plain belly Sneetches= Jewish -OR- Star Belly Sneetches= Caucasian Plain Belly Sneetches= Minorities It provides the message that race and ethnicity need not be dividing lines in our society, and that we can coexist peacefully, regardless of our external differences.

14. Horton Hears A Who is an allegory for Hiroshima and the U.S. Occupation in Japan. Dr. Seuss wrote this book as an apology for his extremely racist, anti- Japanese propaganda (political cartoons) that he created during WWII.

16. Horton Hears a Who Published in 1954, Horton Hears a Who! was dedicated to a Japanese friend of Dr. Seuss, and the story itself is meant to be a allegory for American postwar occupation of Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgPcAxkxoi o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgPcAxkxoi o Take notes on the figurative and literal meaning of the allegory that you see.

17. Discuss what you came up with at your tables! Add anything to your notes that you were missing before!

18. Allegory Who-Ville= Japan (Hiroshima) The Whos= Japanese Horton= USA (Seuss’ idea of fictional America who would help Hiroshima rebuild after being bombed) Dropping clover that Who-ville stands upon from a far height, destroying much of the town/burning in hot oil= dropping the atomic bomb

19. Discuss: What is an allegory? Give me a definition. What is satire? Give an example from Dr. Seuss. Give one example of an allegory in Dr. Seuss and explain how it fits the definition of an allegory in detail. Based on your understanding of allegory, describe how Animal Farm is an allegory. Which characters in Animal Farm stand for characters in history? Look back at your notes and discuss!

20. Get out a half sheet of paper! Put your name on it as well as your period number. This is a pop quiz to see who was paying attention today. NO NOTES! CLEAR YOUR DESKS OFF!

21. Pop Quiz! 1. What is an allegory? Give me a definition. 2. What is satire? Give me an example from Dr. Seuss. 3. Give one example of an allegory in Dr. Seuss and explain how it fits the definition of an allegory in detail. 4. Based on your understanding of allegory, describe how Animal Farm is an allegory. 5. Give me one example of a character in Animal Farm and which person they represent in history.