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Animal Farm - the story | |
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| 1917 Bolshevik Revolution | October 1917 political proletariat leader Lenin returns to country after years of exile |
| revolutionary and political leader Leon Trotsky returns after exile - becomes leader of Red Army | |
| White Army - Russians sympathetic to Czar and bourgeoisie | |
| Red Army victorious - 4 year civil war | |
| U.S.S.R. | after war, Russia becomes Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics |
| 1924 Lenin dies | |
| struggle for power between new political leader Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky | |
| Stalin wins - Trotsky expelled, declared traitor by Stalin | |
| Trotsky fleas to Mexico - assassinated 1940 | |
| Stalin gains power | |
| 1930 arrests and public trials of anyone thought to be disloyal - thousands killed - all opposition eliminated | |
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| Ideas | |
| According to George | To rewrite history is to control both the past and the future. |
| "Political language . . . Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind." | |
| The struggle for power exists in any society in which the people at large have no voice. | |
| Karl says . . . | "Hunger, hardship and disappointment are unalterable facts of life, but man must continue to struggle to change them. |
| "Good will, good intentions, and ideals and common decency are not enough." | |
| Quotable Quotes | |
| "The world wants to be deceived." - Sebastian Brant | |
| "Power is much more easily manifested in destroying than in creating." - Wm. Wordsworth | |
| "The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." - Henri Bergson | |
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| Daily work | Prior to reading, select an animal based only on the name. As we read adopt the perosona of that animal and create daily response journal entries of a half page per day, commenting on the activities in the chapter and adding your thoughts and reactions as if you were the selected animal. Journals will be turned in and graded when the reading is finished. |
| Work sheets | Students will receive a packet of handouts which must be finished at the completion of the reading and handed in for a grade. |
| Readings | Students will read approximately one to two chapters per night completing journal entries after each chapter. We will discuss the chapters in class. |
| Quizzes & Tests | Periodic surprise reading quizzes may be given. Students will prove their mastery of the material on a final test over the story and concepts. |
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| "All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Afton |
