Tag: classics

Hello everyone.  It’s an interesting bit of both irony and coincidence that this class is digital / remote.

From the last class, let’s look and discuss the historically relevant video.  It has to do with Russia becoming the Soviet Union from 1917-1990.

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1) Please explain the meaning of the “Commandments of Animal Farm”:

2) Explain this scene at the end of the book.  What has the farm become?

3) Avatar is a movie that came out in 2009 (12 years ago).  This is the opening scene.  Explain how it is an example of programming the Animals for what they have to look forward to.  Watch it carefully please.

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Discussion quote – How does this quite relate to Animal Farm:

We will finish the book today.  

• Read the following excerpt, and explain this scene – what has happened?  Provide analysis with depth please. (p. 132-133)

VIDEO – Connection to Socialsm /Communism and recent history.  We will discuss and continue this next class as well:

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Prior knowledge and Discussion:

Think about the beginning of the novel, Animal Farm. 

• What were the goals? 
• How would the animals live? 
• Why were they forming a revolution in the first place?

Excerpt: Read and discuss:

Answer in writing please:

1. Why are the animals working like ‘slaves’?  What does that say about the Farm?
2. How does the change in the commandments reflect the condition and life conditions on the Farm?

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Economic Connection to today:

1. As late as the early 1980’s, it was easy for Americans to live on one income.  The traditional family unit was economically feasible.  Why is that not possible now? (Critique of Feminism).
2. What has happened to your money?  Use the chart below to explain what has happened to the American Dollar’s buying power. (Critique of the Federal Reserve – Founded 1913).

BOXER goes down:

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Learning Target: The aspects of the Human Condition that are present in Animal Farm.

We will begin with the following excerpt:

Please explain, in writing, how this excerpt continues the THEME of Hypocrisy => Betrayal in the novel. (10 points)

Today we will read pages: 111 – 121.

Homework: Please do the vocabulary assignment. 7 of them are done for you (40 points):

DISCUSS the correlation:

Connection:

https://www.sidwell.edu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidwell_Friends_School#Notable_alumni

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Learning Target: How are minds shaped, changed, and molded to suit The Narrative the Pigs (Rulers) want?

Reading today: Chapter 8: Animal Farm

Discussion:

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” – George Orwell 1984

What is the parallel to this:

Revision: Let’s go way back to early 2020:

Here is the WHO:

Please answer the following questions:

We will begin with the “Tiny Dot” video from last class.

Next, we will read pages 68-71 and finish Chapter 6 in Animal Farm.

Intelligent Paragraph or 2 Homework:

• **Please relate the “Tiny Dot” video to what you’re seeing in Animal Farm, particularly with the fact that it is the pigs who not only rule, but do much less work than the other animals.  This is another example of LEVERAGE.**
• **Then relate Napoleon’s reaction (who he blames) to the “Truth in 5 Minutes” video below.**

Use this modern day comparison please to analyze and connect a modern day example to the Pigs:

911 Truth in 5 Minutes (Censored from YouTube years ago):

If the video won’t play, you can find it here:

https://odysee.com/@TruthVault:0/911-The-truth-in-5-minutes:2

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Reading Today: Pages 15-26 Chapter 2

Please answer questions 1-4:

Maze Runner Preview:

Old Major

Old Major is Mr Jones’ prize boar. He gathers all the animals together in the big barn to make a speech. He tells the animals that mankind and Mr Jones are the ‘enemy’, it is their fault that the animals’ lives are miserable. He points out how cruel the men are to the animals – consuming without producing. He says that one day a rebellion will come – the animals will overthrow mankind and live in harmony.

Old Major is very intelligent, well-respected, an excellent speaker and an inspiration to the animals. He ends his speech by teaching the animals a song called Beasts of England. It is about a time when animals are free and humans are overthrown. He dies shortly after giving his speech and the other pigs take what they learnt from him and create ‘Animalism’, a set of rules for animals to live by.

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(30 points) Analyze Old Major’s rhetoric.  How does his word usage tug at the emotions of the animals?  What are the key words he uses to get them to feel the way he wants? Explain in a coherent, complex 12th grade level paragraph please.

• “Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems.”
• “Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work day and night, body and soul for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you comrade: Rebellion!”

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Links:

Australia:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/australian-mp-says-unvaccinated-people-need-be-controlled-and-restricted

 PJW Video, “Us and Them”