Chapter eight
Review and Reflect
What band level am I
working at?
Using the assessment
descriptors, what skills
have I achieved?
How do I move up a
level?
Band 5
Candidates demonstrate:
Sustained, sophisticated interpretations of texts – A02 i
sustained and sophisticated engagement with writers’ ideas and attitudes and sophisticated
interpretations using imaginatively selected supporting textual detail – A02 ii
sophisticated analysis of aspects of language and structure – A02 iii
perceptive and mature comment on the significance of the contexts – A02 iv
Band 4
Candidates demonstrate:
sustained and developed interpretations of texts – A02 i
engagement with writers’ ideas and attitudes and provide perceptive
interpretations using precisely selected supporting textual detail – AO2 ii
analysis of aspects of language and structure in convincing detail - A02 iii
convincing connections between the texts and their contexts – A02 iv
Band 3
Candidates demonstrate:
clear evidence of understanding of significant meanings of the text – A01i
ability to explain writers’ ideas clearly offering relevant and appropriate
supporting textual detail –A02 ii
ability to display understanding of features of language and structure supported by relevant and
appropriate quotation – A02 iii
ability to explore the significance of aspects of the contexts matched to
textual details. – A02 iv
Band 2
Candidates demonstrate some awareness shown of more obvious meanings in the text – A02 i
some awareness of writers’ ideas supported by relevant textual detail – A02 ii
some awareness of obvious features of language and structure supported by some relevant
textual detail A02 iii
make some relevant comments about the significance of the contexts – A02iv
Band 1
Candidates demonstrate:
limited understanding of the texts A02 i
limited engagement with the writers’ ideas – A02 ii
reference to a limited range of textual detail – A02 iii
some awareness of contexts but very limited comment on their significance – A02 iv
Friend of fatherless!
Fountain of happiness!
Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on
Fire when I gaze at thy
Calm and commanding eye,
Like the sun in the sky,
Contrast between
Comrade Napoleon!
spiritual reference
Thou are the giver of
and very earthy
All that thy creatures love,
reference
Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon;
Every beast great or small
Sleeps at peace in his stall,
Thou watchest over all,
Comrade Napoleon!
Had I a sucking-pig,
Ere he had grown as big
Even as a pint bottle or as a rolling-pin,
He should have learned to be
Faithful and true to thee,
Yes, his first squeak should be
"Comrade Napoleon!"
Find examples of irony in this song to Napoleon.
As they approached the farm Squealer, who had
unaccountably been absent during the fighting, came
skipping towards them, whisking his tail and
beaming with satisfaction.
How is the verb ‘unaccountably’ ironic? What is Orwell
suggesting to the reader about what Squealer was really
doing during the destruction of the Windmill?
A cry of lamentation went up. Straw was laid down outside the doors of the
farmhouse, and the animals walked on tiptoe. With tears in their eyes they
asked one another what they should do if their Leader were taken away from
them. A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to
introduce poison into Napoleon's food. At eleven o'clock Squealer came
out to make another announcement. As his last act upon earth, Comrade
Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to
be punished by death.
At first, it is announced that Napoleon is dying. But what is really wrong with him?
How does Orwell suggest this to the reader?
How does Orwell use irony in chapter eight?
Point
Evidence
Explain
Why do writers use irony?
• To make clear what the writer thinks is
really the truth
• To highlight the importance of the truth
• Irony is intentional
• Irony is sometimes confused with sarcasm
but sarcasm is more direct and intended
to be hurtful or cutting