Do Now
Look up the word
communism and write out
what it means in 2
sentences. Explain how
this is different than our
capitalist society.
DO NOW 20 Mar. 2014
1. This hour is a silent hour.
2. If you talk you will have your focus card
signed and receive a zero for the day.
3. On a piece of paper, write an argumentative
claim based only on facts from Bowling for
Columbine.
4. List three facts below support it.
5. Beneath that, explain the bias Michael Moore
had in the film.
6. Turn it in to the in box and be prepared for
instructions.
SSR-March 20, 2014
• Directions:
1. Grab my article from the front table.
2. Read “Historical BackgroundAnimal Farm.”
3. You have 15 minutes.
SSR-March 20, 2014
Animal Farm-Historical Background
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DIRECTIONS-Restate and respond to the following questions and
question stems.
1.
Summarize what Karl Marx is known for
(refer to paragraph 1).
Capitalists are
.
According to Marx, the only way to establish justice is
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Explain how Lenin & Trotsky impacted Russia.
How did Trotsky and Stalin differ in their beliefs for Russia?
Russia changed under Stalin in the following ways:
Extension: Instead of Communism remaining as the form of
government in Russia, under Stalin’s rule there came
about
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Hand in to In Box.
2.
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7.
Animal Farm
By George Orwell …is an ALLEGORY
of the Russian Revolution
Allegory: a literary work that has
hidden meaning beneath the literal
meaning of the story, poem, or play.
• Allegory usually relies heavily on
symbolism to teach a lesson or
explain an idea.
• The characters in an allegory often
stand for abstract ideas or concepts.
Dystopia: A very
flawed world
Utopia: A perfect
world
The Romanovs
Small group of
elite, wealthy
people that
controlled Russia
for 300 years
The economy was
changing…
• Industrial Revolution
• Creation of the
Middle Class
• Food
Shortages/Inflation
• Years of
Mistreatment of
Lower Class
1. Collective
Ownership/Means of
Production
2. All People Are Equal
3. “Religion is the Opiate
of the Masses”
4. The State Must
Crumble/All
Bourgeoisies
are enemies
5. All people work to their
own ability
1917- Czar Nicholas II was
overthrown by
THE Intelligencia and
THE
BOLSHEVIKS…after a
short period…put forth a
leader
Vladimir Ilych Lenin…
• Sadly our team has seen some bad
days this week:
– Fighting
– Stealing
– Tattling about students
– Tattling about teachers
– Harassment
– Bullying
– Immature responses to lessons, movies, etc.
• I ask you to THINK like a high schooler before
you act. Let’s enjoy the rest of the year instead
of suffering through it.
 All land was taken by the
Government and given to
Proletariats (working
man)
 Every man, woman, and
child worked for their
own food and materials.
 The wealthy were either
exiled or their wealth was
taken and distributed
back to the people.
1. THE SECRET POLICE:
CHEKA
2. THE REDS vs THE
WHITES
• OPPOSED TO SUCH
REVOLUTIONARY
TACTICS
• SOUGHT TO FREE THE
CAPTIVE CZAR AND HIS
FAMILY BEFORE THEY
COULD BE FREED
ALL wealthy should be killed
at all costs. Secret police
began attacking and killing the
wealthy and all farmers that
refused to hand over property
COMMUNISTS vs.
COMMUNIST
INTERNATIONALE
RUSSIA IN CIVIL WAR
RED ARMY
(COMMUNISTS)TROTSKY
WHITE ARMY
(TRADITIONALISTS)
The GOLERO, the first-ever
Soviet project for national
economic recovery and
development.
He was very concerned
about creating a free
universal health care
system for all, the rights of
women, and teaching the
illiterate Russian people
to
read and write.
 INCREASES SECRET
POLICE
 JOINS COMMUNIST
INTERNATIONALE
 FIVE YEAR PLANS
 MODERNIZED BUT LOST
LIVES
 BANNED ALL
INTELLECTUAL/IDEALISM
 STARTED WORK CAMPS
 GULOG: PRISON CAMPS
STALIN WAS SO
Paranoid HE…
• FORCED PEOPLE TO
CONFESS TO CRIMES
• EXILED TROTSKY/OTHER
LEADERS
• KILLED ALL ARMY
GENERALS
• MYTHOLOGIZED HIMSELF
• CONTROLLED THE MEDIA
• FOLLOWERS BELIEVED HE
WAS HELPING
• Hitler AND STALIN ARE
ALLIES
• HITLER TURNS ON
STALIN
• AND ATTACKS RUSSIA
• ENGLAND SENDS
BACKUP
• STALIN DEFEATS
GERMANY…
Czar Nicholas II – poor
leader; cruel, sometimes
brutal with opponents;
sometimes kind – hired
students as spies to
make money
Karl Marx – invented
Communism; “workers
of the world unite” and
take over government;
dies before Russian
Revolution
Leon Trotsky – other leader of
“October Revolution”; pure
communist – followed Marx;
wanted to improve life for all in
Russia; chased away by Lenin’s
KGB
Joseph Stalin – “devil
genius”; not a good
speaker, not educated
like Trotsky; twenty-five
year reign of fear in
Russia
Media designed to
influence public
opinion on a social
or political issue,
often by appealing
to fear or prejudice
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•
•
•
Word Games
False Connections
Special Appeals
Logical Fallacies
Name calling:
- links a person or idea to a
negative symbol
- hope that audience will
reject the person or idea
based on the symbol rather
than available evidence
- most obvious kind involves
bad names
- more subtle involves words
that possess a negative or
emotional charge
-anything come to mind?
Glittering generalities:
- make the audience approve
and accept without examining
the evidence
- Using emotionally charged
words
- Make something unpleasant
seem more acceptable
The Glittering Generality is, in short, Name
Calling in reverse. While Name Calling
seeks to make us form a judgment to
reject and condemn without examining the
evidence, the Glittering Generality device
seeks to make us approve and accept
without examining the evidence.
Transfer:
- Using things people accept
to get the public to accept
something else
- symbols constantly used
- an idea or program should
not be accepted or rejected
simply because it has been
linked to a symbol/something
else
Testimonial:
- misuse in citing individuals who are
not qualified to make judgments about
a particular issue
Example: In my last movie, I saved
my family from terrorists and I'm
supporting this party because they will
save you from terrorists!
• Plain folks:
speakers attempt to
convince their audience that
they, and their ideas,
are“of the people”
• Band wagon:
False sense of a rush to join
something that doesn’t truly
exist
“everyone else is doing it,
and so should you”
Fear:
- warn audience that disaster
will result if they don’t follow
a particular course of action
Four elements for a
successful fear campaign:
1. Threat
2. Specific recommendation of
how to behave
3. Perception that
recommendation will reduce
threat
4. Perception that the
audience is capable to
performing the behavior
Bad logic:
- logic is the process of
drawing a conclusion from
one or more ideas/facts
- propagandists intentionally
manipulate logic in order to
promote their cause
Unwarranted
extrapolation:
- extrapolation is a
tendency to make huge
predictions about the
future on the basis of a
few facts
- such predictions often
form the basis for an
effective fear-appeal
• You should be aware of the
message the media sends
to you and how they do it.
• In Animal Farm, you should
be aware of the messages
the animals are being given
by the pigs, how the pigs
are giving the messages,
and how the animals are
responding to the
messages.
DO NOW
Explain what type
of propaganda
this is and, most
importantly, why
it fits in that
category.
Do Now 4/6/11
• What is Squealer’s role at the
end of chapter 3? What is he
doing when he goes to talk
with the other animals? You
might have to look back at
the text to truly understand
what he is doing.