Animal Farm Essay (Below are yesterday's notes)
Friday: Write body 2 and body 3 paragraphs. Create the conclusion at home and follow the steps below.
Bring a typed, edited draft to class Monday for peer editing. If you need to print, please do so before class begins. Thanks.
Topic: Evaluate why Animal Farm fails.
Find the best examples from your post-it notes (the ones on rules, breaking the rules and acquiring power) AND look elsewhere for the following examples:
- satirical elements: irony, sarcasm, wit, hyperbole and understatement
- symbols or repetitions (motif)
- character flaws
- propaganda, lies, evasions, prevarications
- a lack of questioning, accepting illogical conclusions
- rationalizations
- danger of group identities
All 9 quotes are due tomorrow. You may simply number off the best 9 from the ones you have already chosen or you may write them out so they are easier to organize during tomorrow's class!!
Tomorrow:
Colour code your 9 quotes. Create a strong thesis and your 3 body paragraph statements. Write the introduction and first body paragraph.
Bring your Mockingbird and your Romeo and Juliet essays to class so that you DO NOT make the same errors as last time.
Thursday's Homework: Write body paragraph 2.
Friday's Class: Write body paragraph 3 and the conclusion.
This Weekend: Type up your essay. Double space it. Print it out. Edit it. Make the corrections. Re-print a second copy. Bring that second copy to class for peer editing.
Your Animal Farm essay is due next Wed.
