World Literature
Week 19
DO NOW: Monday,
th
Jan.13 2014
• Clear desk except for homework and pencil.
• Study your Week 18 vocabulary words before
quiz.
Week 18 Vocab Quiz
• 7 minutes for vocabulary quiz
• Pass in bubble sheets
• Trade and grade
Chapter 2 Check
1. Name the two pigs introduced in Chapter 2. Give one
characteristic for each.
2. True or False: the other farm animals are skeptical of the
Rebellion at first.
3. What is Sugarcandy Mountain?
4. What does Mollie the mare take from Mrs. Jones’s room?
5. What is revealed that the pigs taught themselves to do?
6. Name one of the Seven Commandments.
7. What happens to the milk at the end of the chapter?
What is Socratic seminar?
• Socratic Seminar is
a method of
teaching through
discussion and
questioning.
Norms of Socratic
Seminar
• Scholars need to have an understanding of
the text.
• Do not need to raise your hand.
• Actively listen (what does this look like?)
• Use the text as evidence for your answers.
• Question one another!
AF Chapter 2 Prediscussion
• Spend the next 10 minutes reviewing the
Animal Chapter 2 Discussion questions.
• Jot downs ideas to contribute to the
discussion.
• Prepare textual evidence to support your
ideas.
Chapter 2 Discussion
Questions
1. In Chapter 2, we are introduced to Animalism. What is Animalism?
(Chapter 1, pg. 7-8)
2. Describe Sugarcandy Mountain. What might it symbolize? (Make a
connection!)
3. Karl Marx: “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” What does this
mean?
4. What is the significance of the pigs teaching themselves how to read
and write? (Think Essential Questions…)
5. Why did the pigs create the Seven Commandments? Why do you think
the pigs did not create consequences?
6. At the end of Chapter 2, what do YOU think happened to the milk?
Exit Slip
• Connect a point made today during the
Socratic Seminar to one of the Animal Farm
Essential Questions.
Animal Farm Ch. 3
DO Now: Tuesday,
January 14th
• SSR 15 minutes
• Journal prompt:
AF Chap. 3 HW Review
World Lit. Final Exam
ENGLISH
- All Semester 1 English skills
- 70 multiple choice questions (1 passage,
individual skills)
- 60 minutes
World Lit. Final Exam
READING
- All Semester 1 texts (Bulfinch’s Greek
Mythology, The Kite Runner) + SSR
- 1 essay – 40 points
- 60 minutes
STUDY TIME
• Use the rest of class to prepare for the World
Literature Semester 1 Final.
• Complete the English and Reading study
guides.
• Level 1 (think Library!)
HOMEWORK
• DUE TUESDAY, JANUARY 21st
• Read Animal Farm Chapter 4 and Chapter 5
• Complete the AF questions for Chapter 4 and
Chapter 5.