INTRODUCTION

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

ENGLISH CLASS

WED

MAY 21

TODAY'S LESSON

• introduction
• reading

TODAY'S GOAL

• you know what Animal Farm is about in general  

ANIMAL FARM

ANIMAL FARM

• fairy story
• allegory
• written between 1943 and 1944
• published in 1945
• Russian Revolution

GEORGE ORWELL

• Eric Arthur Blair
• born in 1903 in Bengal, India
• attended Eton College in Windsor, England
• socialist, but extremely critical
• died in 1950

GEORGE ORWELL

• book 1984
• "Big Brother is watching 

        you."

THEMES

• totalitarianism
• revolution and corruption
• class warfare
• language as a power
• Soviet Union

READING

• read chapters 1 and 2 
• make notes alongside the reading

TODAY'S LESSON

• introduction
  
• reading

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