Unit Title: ‘Animal Farm’
Teacher: Brian Malta
Grade/ Subject: 8th Grade LA
Grade/ Subject: 8th Grade LA
Standards and Benchmarks:
Ø Writing: 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 4.1.5, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.4, 3.5.1, 3.6.2, 3.7.1, 3.7.3, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.9.1, 3.9.3, 3.10.2
Ø Reading: 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.3.5, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.4.5, 3.4.6, 3.6.1
Enduring Understandings Students Will Understand:
Ø Literature defines my rights and responsibilities in a changing world
Ø Writing clarifies my rights and responsibilities
Ø Effective communication is essential to my future
Essential Questions:
Ø To what extent can an individual voice really make a difference?
Ø What if our rights and responsibilities are not written down?
Ø To what extent are the past, present, and future connected?
Ø What is no one took a stand?
Ø In what ways can writing shape social change?
Ø How can we persuade others effectively?
Concepts:
Ø Students need to understand and recognize propaganda, persuasion, and fear tactics
Ø Students need to understand and recognize varied political systems/ structures- i.e.: communism, socialism, totalitarianism, fascism, democracy, and capitalism- and their effects on the individual and the society as a whole.
Ø Civic responsibility
Ø The Commandments of the United States
Skills:
Ø Parts of an essay- Introduction, body, conclusion
Ø Persuasive techniques
Ø Terms- topic sentence, thesis statement, transitions, summaries, reflection, persuasion, debate, informed opinion, citation, validity, graphic organizers, sequential text, paraphrase.
Ø Six traits
Ø ACTIVE strategies
Ø Writing conventions/ process
Academic Language:
Ø Propaganda
Ø Persuasion
Ø Government types/ structures
Ø Allegory
Ø Irony
Ø Personification
Ø Satire
Ø Foreshadowing
Ø Euphemisms
Ø stereotypes
Resources:
Ø ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell
Ø Writers Inc
Ø Write Source 2000
Ø Portals for Learning- ‘Animal Farm’
Ø Varied George Orwell websites
Ø Six Traits rubrics and writing guides
Ø ASD Curriculum Guide
Differentiation:
Ø Have students role play the different governmental structures and relate to their personal lives
Ø Have students relate these roles to the structures of school, family, groups of friends, the workplace
Ø Relate larger topic discussions to topics the students in the class will relate to and grasp- personalize it for the students in your room while the lesson is being given
Formative Instruction and Formative Assessments:
Ø Discuss animal stereotypes prior to the novel and track the classes categorizing as the novel progresses
Ø Discuss real life usages of propaganda by governments and advertisement companies then have the students find examples of propaganda in their everyday world. From this have the students create a poster, using propaganda techniques, to sell a made up product
Ø Debate speeches
Ø Analysis of political systems in correlation to the evolution of Napoleon in the book and the real world
Ø Have student create important scene drawings with excerpts and explanations
Ø Have students create 7 commandment posters which show what they think to be the most basic rules a society must follow in order to co- exist with each other.
Ø Socratic discussions
Summative Assessment:
Ø Over the course of the novella ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell you studied and discussed the power of the individual voice to persuade others to do things that they might not ordinarily do. You witnessed firsthand through class discussions and through individual exploration how certain individuals have used the power of their voices to be heard for both good and not so good purposes; now it is your turn to be heard. In either a speech, a pod cast, or a power-point presentation that will be shared with the class you are going to take on the role of a social advocate.
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