Reading Log ANIMAL FARM Get Your Books 1

Reading Log ANIMAL FARM

Get Your Books! 1) Remember to get YOUR book, the same one you had last time (the list you signed last time is taped to my desk) – the numbers are on the top facing outwards. 2) Also remember: This book is your exit ticket. You cannot leave without handing me your book personally.

Ch. Eight: Turn to pg. 88 in your book � Write the number and page of the chapter, and take notes: -characters? -details? -images? -metaphors?

Hmmmm. . . What do I think ? THREE MINUTE REFLECTION BREAK! Take seven minutes to write a reflection on the chapter -should write a paragraph over the importance of the events. � Describe the sale of the stack of lumber. How does Napoleon outwit himself? What makes the battle against Frederick’s men different from the Battle of the Cowshed? How is this victory different? Why does Napoleon get sick? What is really happening there? What is his plan for the grazing-ground for old animals now? What do you think this means? What is revealed about Squealer, and how do the animals react? What do you think of this? � What is happening to Boxer? � RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: How is Napoleon becoming more and more like a typical dictator? � �

Ch. Nine: Turn to pg. 97 in your book � Write the number and page of the chapter, and take notes: -characters? -details? -images? -metaphors?

Hmmmm. . . What do I think ? SEVEN MINUTE REFLECTION BREAK! Take seven minutes to write a reflection on the chapter -should write a paragraph over the importance of the events. � � What are living conditions like for all of the animals except the pigs and dogs? What happens to Boxer? What is your reaction to this? What does this tell us about their world? What do the pigs do with the money? What do you think of Benjamin? How do you interpret his reactions?

Ch. Ten: Turn to pg. 112 in your book � Write the number and page of the chapter, and take notes: -characters? -details? -images? -metaphors?

Hmmmm. . . What do I think ? THREE MINUTE REFLECTION BREAK! Take seven minutes to write a reflection on the chapter -should write a paragraph over the importance of the events. What changes have the years brought to the farm? How do the animals now feel about their social order, their farm? Why do you think Orwell does this? � What drastic actions do the pigs use to shatter the animals’ complacency? � All seven commandments are erased. What is the new commandment and how has it been true from the beginning? � What happens to the pigs’ appearance? And what do you think this means? � �

� FINAL THOUGHTS: Now reflect over the book as a whole, and answer the following question! � Theme: What do you think the overall theme of the story is? Why? � Use the P. I. E/E format here: � P: What’s your answer/POINT � I: INTRODUCE your evidence with a signal phrase � E: give EVIDENCE (quote – more than one in this case) � E: EXPLAIN how the evidence supports your idea of theme � Whatever you do not finish today, will be due next class for a PROJECT grade.