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Lesson 23: Animal Farm, Chapter VIII
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Lesson 23: Animal Farm, Chapter VIII
Student Learning Objectives
1
Content
Students will read and analyze key excerpts of Chapter VIII of Animal Farm to consider how Napoleon’s leadership is changing through a peer discussion and a gallery walk.
2
Language
Students will explain how praise imagery and rewritten “laws” shape perception in Chapter VIII by using expanded noun groups and cause/effect connectors to cite evidence.
3
Foundations
Students will explore the vocabulary word censured through contextual discussion and application.
Essential Question
Why do revolutions rise, and why do some end up betraying their own ideals?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Students will continue to build knowledge of how a leader can consolidate power to create an authoritarian government.
Enduring Understanding:
Revolutions can drift from their original ideals as leaders consolidate power and use manipulation to maintain control.
Future Lessons:
In Lesson 24, students will compare and contrast the American and Russian Revolutions, focusing on their goals, outcomes, and use of persuasive language.
Future Lessons:
In Lesson 25, students will compare the rhetorical strategies used in the American and Russian Revolutions and discuss how those strategies shaped whether revolutionary ideals were preserved or betrayed.
Unit Performance Task:
In this lesson, students analyze the ways in which Orwell uses propaganda, symbolic language, and the rewriting of laws to demonstrate the betrayal of revolutionary ideals. This examination prepares students to write an argument explaining how revolutions protect or betray their founding principles, using textual evidence and rhetorical analysis.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Students will reflect on Napoleon’s leadership and how it has changed. |
Literacy Lab10 Minutes | Students will examine a new vocabulary word and expand their knowledge based on situations and examples. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Part A: Close Reading and Discussion (RL.8.3) Students will reread key excerpts of Chapter VIII of Animal Farm and answer text-dependent questions with partners. Part B: Determining Central Ideas Gallery Walk (RL.8.2) Students will engage in a gallery walk in which they determine one central idea from Chapter VIII. |
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Addressed in Lesson
- censured
- expressing formal disapproval
Vocabulary for Additional Support
- gambolled
- to run around playfully
- pensioner
- someone who is retired and receives a pension
- beatifically
- very happy, divinely happy
- hullabaloo
- a big commotion
- forgery
- something created to look like something else; fakes
- sentinel:
- someone whose job it is to keep watch
Material List
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Unit 2 Lesson 23 Student Edition
Routines
- Think-Pair-Share
- Generating Situations, Context, and Examples
- Gallery Walk
- Quick Write
Lesson Sequence
Lesson Texts
Short-Form Text
Famous Speeches: Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death"
Original speech from the public domain
Read text
Short-Form Text
Independence and the Articles of Confederation
USHistory.org
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Short-Form Text
Revolution, Civil War and Terror: The Birth of the Soviet Union
Standard News Bureau
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