Animal Farm: Booktest and Start Unit 7 - H3P - 9 March 2020

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This lesson contains 10 slides, with text slides.

time-iconLesson duration is: 50 min

Items in this lesson

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Read
"Animal Farm"
for 5 minutes

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  • Reading "Animal Farm" for 5 minutes
  • Animal Farm: Book Test Reminder
  • Assignment: Animal Farm
Today's Plan

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Assignment: Animal Farm
  • You will be assigned a character or theme from "Animal Farm"
  • You will answer questions about these characters or themes
  • Make sure that you've answered all of the questions related to your character or theme!
  • During the last 5 minutes of class I will walk around to assess your progress; if I see you've not worked on your character or theme I will ask you to come back and finish the assignment in the 9th hour
  • Hand in your work at the end of the lesson
  •  I will put all of your work on ELO, in the folder "H3P: gedeelde documenten". This way you can study each other's "character findings" and "theme summaries" for the booktest!

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Goal: Animal Farm
  • The goal of this lesson is that you will help each other work on character and theme summaries for the booktest: "Animal Farm"

  • By all working on one character or theme, and then putting your work together; you will all have worked out part of the book that would have taken you ages if you had done it all by yourself!

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Napoleon = Yari
Snowball = Bjarne
Squealer = Thomas
The Nine Dogs = Sara
Boxer = Joeri
Mollie = Sena
Benjamin = Romy G.
Old Major = Ninian
Clover = Heleen
Moses = Jur
Mr. and Mrs. Jones = Sharon
Bluebell = Giedo
Jessie = Rahim
Pincher = Mac
The Sheep = Thom
Mr. Pilkington = Bink
Mr. Frederick = Mike
Mr. Whymper  = Rosa

Themes
Power: Leadership and Corruption = Duncan and Kay
Communism vs. Totalitarianism  = Kay and Duncan
Lies and Deceit = Tim
Plot: What is Animal Farm about? = Dune and Romy S.
Religion = Ties
Violence = Cami
Dreams, Hopes and Plans = Marijn


Characters

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Character Questions

1. Who is your character?
2. Why is your character important to the
     story?
3.  Is your character a main, side or minor
     character?
4.  What are three qualities
    (eigenschappen) of your character?
5.  Would the story still make sense
      without your character? Why/why
       not?
6.   Write a short summary about your  
      character (what does your character
      do in the story? What's his/her role?)
Theme Questions

1. What does your theme mean? (if  
    you don't know what the theme 
    means look it up)
2. Why if your theme important to the
      story?
3. What is the goal of the theme in
     the book and outside of the book?
4. Why do you think the writer put
     these themes in the book? What is
     he trying to make clear?
5. How are these themes connected
    to world problems?
6. Why do you think animals are used
     for these themes?
300 words in total

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Resources
You are allowed to use your phone to look up information about "Animal Farm" so that you can answer the questions:
Some resource tips
  • Smhoop (great English summary website)
  • YouTube (you can find many videos that explain Animal Farm and the characters)
  • Scholieren.com (this is a great website for many Dutch summaries about Animal Farm
  • Google Translate (for the themes; if you don't know what communism is translate the word first; if you still don't know what it means you can google its meaning and find examples of communism on the internet

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Finally
Hand in your character and theme findings at the end of the lesson

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