Honors World Literature
Week 4
Do Now: Monday, September 21st 2015
• Clear your desk of everything except the following:
1. Half Sheet (number 1-15)
2. Vocabulary Quiz
3. Appositives Quiz
Objectives
SWBAT show mastery of Appositives and new vocabulary.
SWBAT use rhetorical appeals to write a proposal to the intended audience
15 minutes total
• Vocabulary & Mastery Quizzes
Rhetoric Writing Prompts
• Write a response using all of the rhetorical appeals to persuade the idea
presented in a topic. Choose your Audience.
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Curfew time
School Uniforms (socks, dress-down, lanyards, etc)
Off Campus at the sophomore level
Backpacks
lunch
Homework
• Read & Annotate Chapter 3 of Animal Farm
Do Now: Tuesday/ Wednesday , September
22nd and 23rd 2015
• Lesson 2A
Objectives
SWBAT Identify the differences between each animal’s character traits and
determine why Orwell characterizes each animal this way.
SWBAT Create an image of each animal based on actions and facts about each
character.
SWBAT Understand the causes of the Russian Revolution and important
people involved.
Allegory & Parallelism
What is an allegory?
• An allegory is a story in which there is a one to-one correspondence between
characters and events on a deeper level of meaning.
Animal Farm is the following:
• an allegory in which characters and events correspond directly to people and
events
of the Russian Revolution.
• an allegory which the author, George Orwell, uses as a vehicle to speak out
against global dictatorship.
Brief Overview of the Russian Revolution
• Read through you handout & Take note of the events and key people who
played a role in the Russian Revolution.
Preguntas?
Animal Farm: Character Comparison
• We will complete the following chart as we read through Animal Farm and
meet the characters. It will not take long for you to see the parallels between
the fictional characters Orwell created and their historical counterparts.
Bring the chart to class every day. You will be responsible for completing the
chart on your own and as we read together. This will be very helpful for
quizzes, assignments and projects.
• Complete at least 2 characters with a partner.
Character Depiction
Assignment
• Choose an animal from the text.
• Draw the animal, based on
characteristics from the text.
• Use 4 pieces of evidence that helped
with your depiction.
• Create a one sentence claim that
artfully describes who that amimal is.
• Worth 10 points
Objectives
SWBAT Read Orwell’s short story, “Shooting an Elephant” and determine
Orwell’s purpose in writing this story.
“Shooting an Elephant”
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Written and narrated by George Orwell
Written in 1936
Setting: Burman
After leaving school, Orwell lived in Burman and worked as an officer
Read & Annotate
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Pull the document from the wiki.
Answer Questions on the word document.
Submit answers to me.
After using the wiki, you should not have a reason to use the internet.
Any inappropriate uses of technology will result in 4 Demerits.
Overview of the text
• “Shooting an Elephant” is a classic example of an author using a personal experience to illuminate a political
institution and its social implications: here, the experience of shooting an elephant and the British Raj (the
imperial government of India and Burma), and colonialism itself. Orwell carefully and precisely renders
setting, action, and character (himself) by developing his responses, feelings, and thoughts with novelistic
density. He braids into the narrative the personal responses to the experience: “I often wondered whether
any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool” (paragraph 14). Orwell, whom
you are likely to know as the author of Animal Farm and 1984, served in the British police force in Burma
after leaving school. The experience heightened his political consciousness. “Shooting an Elephant” is also
an essay about how the expectations of others force us to play roles, to behave in ways that we do not
choose, and to behave as selves other than the selves we think we are—worse selves, as in this essay, and
sometimes better selves as well. Orwell, though he does not use the term, is conscious of what we now refer
to as the “social construction of reality.” Yet, in “Shooting an Elephant,” he both affirms and denies it: that
is, he presents role-playing as educative. “I perceived in this moment,” he writes, “that when the white man
turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys” (paragraph 7).