Animal Farm, week 3, lesson 1

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week 3,

lesson 2

Week 3, lesson 1

Today

Starter 5 min

Recap previous lesson (language) 

Old Major's Speech 

Irony in Animal Farm 

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Documentary George Orwell Part 2

Reflect

What do you remember from previous class?

Old Major's Speech

• A revolutionary thinker
•  Established principles on which Animalism is based
• Repetition of words
• Rhetorical questions
• Emotional words

Read Old Major's speech

(document week 2, lesson 2)

• Highlight the rhetorical techniques he uses to make his speech persuasive and effective
• what do the repetition of words & emotional words do to the audience?
• What is the purpose of the rhetorical questions?

Squeler's Speech

' The others said of Squeler that he could turn black into white.'

Why would Squeler want
to sound like Old Major?

Irony

• One way to express power is through ironic language

• Irony is when the surface meaning and underlying meaning f what's being said is not the same

• Orwell frequently uses irony to make readers think about the motives and morals of the characters of the story.

Give examples of irony
in Animal Farm

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What have you learned today?