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Animal Farm Webquest
Directions: type your paraphrased answers into the form and submit via email to leeannpatterson@rockdale.k12.ga.us.
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TASK 1
Building Background Knowledge: Russian Revolution and Soviet Union
Directions: Paraphrase (put into your own words, not copied) the answers/information you find for this Task. You will not receive credit for any information that is copied! This activity will form a basis for your understanding of our upcoming study of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Use this link for Q’s 1-2:
1. What was George Orwell’s personal experience of Stalin’s government?
2. How did this experience become the motivation/basis for Animal Farm?
Use this link for Q’s 3-6:
3. What is an allegory?
4. What is a fable?
5. Animal Farm is an allegorical fable, which parallels the events of what historical event?
6. Orwell wrote Animal Farm to speak out against what?
Use this link for Q 7:
7. What is a democracy?
Use this link for Q’s 8-10:
8. What were the working conditions in Russia like with Nicholas II as a leader?
9. What was Bloody Sunday? Why might it be significant?
10. What became of this Czar and his family during/after the Revolution?
Use this link for Q’s 11-12:
11. Marx helped to write The Communist Manifesto, which stated that all men were born free, but that society had got to such a state the majority were _________________________________________. What does this mean?
12. Marx had ten points. List two of the ten:
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Use this link for Q’s 13-14:
13. What is the phrase that explains the essence of Communism?
14. According to the site, Communism would probably function well if humans did not have the unfortunate tendency toward__________________________________________.
Use this link for Q’s 15-17:
15. Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
16. What was Bonaparte's basic personality?
17. What was his style/method of ruling?
Use this link for Q’s 18-20:
18. Who was Josef Stalin and what kind of ruler was he?
19. What was Stalin’s relationship to Leon Trotsky?
20. Why did Trotsky leave Russia?
Use this link for Q’s 21-25:
21. Stalin is one of the most __________________________ and _______________________ _____________________________ in history. His regime of terror caused the ____________________ and ____________________________ of tens of ______________________________.
22. What title was Stalin given in 1922? ____________________________________________________
23. By the late 1920's, what was Stalin's role? _______________________________________________
24. What does his role suggest about the nature of power?
25. What happened in the 1930's during the Great Terror or Great Purge?
TASK 2
PROPAGANDA Techniques!
Directions: Be sure to view ALL links above! Then, you will write a definition and provide an example:
1. Bandwagon: Definition:_____________________________________________________________________
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2. Testimonial:
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3. Glittering Generalities:
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4. Name Calling:
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5. Plain Folks
Definition:_____________________________________________________________________
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6. Rewards
Definition:_____________________________________________________________________
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7. Euphemisms
Definition:_____________________________________________________________________
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8. Transfer
Definition:_____________________________________________________________________
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9. Fear
Definition:_____________________________________________________________________
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10. In the space below, write your OWN definition for “propaganda” based on what you have learned:
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