Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze allegory and its elements in order t make real life connections and practice Keystone skills.

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com·mu·nism

  noun \ˈkäm-yə-ˌni-zəm, -yü-\

: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property

: a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably

Direct Instruction

Review Russian revolution. 

stalinism

characters

Analyze characters of Animal Farm and correlate with historical figures.

Guided 

Assign roles  - soft holt reader pages 193 - 199 .  Read / Analyze and complete sidebars.

Independent

1. Explain how communism seemed like a good idea "in theory." 
2. How does human nature prevent the creation of an "ideal" communist society?
3. Explain how Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian revolution.

Closure

Review

Exit Pass

Why do you think author's write allegories to comment on historical events?



propoganda