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Animal Farm Dialectical Journal

Themes: Freedom, Dignity, Language, Weakness, Strength, Fear, Hope, Vision, Power

Directions: For each chapter, choose three of the themes to focus on for each act, and find quotes from the text that focus on your chosen themes for analysis. Your response must indicate the speaker(s), who the speaker(s) is talking to, why their statements are significant to your theme, and their importance within the text. (SOAPSTone Analysis may be good to use for this).

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Essential Questions: 1. How does acquiring power change a person or a group? 2. What is the best way to handle power? 3. Should the choices of the powerful reflect and benefit society or the person(s)/group(s) in power? 4. What are the key differences between Snowball’s and Napoleon’s leadership styles? 5. How does Orwell use allegory and satire to convey his views on the realities of communism? 6. Should a leader that may possibly become a tyrant be removed and neutralized to prevent that from happening?

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|questions based on the reading. Literal—The | |

|answer can be found directly in the book. | |

|Interpretive—The answer is found between the book | |

|and your brain. Conceptual—The answers are found | |

|in the brain—in the worldly sense. | |

|Questions: There must be a collection of level | |

|1,2, & 3 inquiry-based questions written by the | |

|reader that are designed to stimulate discussion. | |

|As you will be responsible for participating in | |

|class and group discussions, your questions will | |

|help you to get things going. Questions should be | |

|open-ended so that various people can participate | |

|by sharing his or her original ideas. | |

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