Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
After today I should be able to:
Reading: You will read Animal Farm by George Orwell over the next three weeks. Follow this reading schedule:
- Week 1: Chapters 1-3, The Ideology of Animalism
- Week 2: Chapters 4-7, The Corruption of Power
- Week 3: Chapters 8-10, The Full Circle
Agenda:
- Read for ten minutes.
- Vocabulary Word of the Day
- In your English Journal:
- Complete the following
- What: Demetrius's initial abandonment of Helena and the lover's magically induced swapping of affections
- Why: illustrates the arbitrary and shifting nature of romantic desire
- Universal: true love is rarely guided by pure reason and is often subject to unpredictable, external forces.
- Write a thesis statement based on what you filled in above.
- Now write a introductory paragraph using the slides from yesterday.
- Remember, your hook should use part of your Universal Idea.
- Work on your reading notes for Animal Farm chapters 4-7.
- Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

