Your summer assignment on Animal Farm is divided up into TWO different sections. All answers should be on a separate sheet of paper, stapled and ready...
SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT: ALL 10TH GRADE ENGLISH CLASSES
Your summer assignment on Animal Farm is divided up into TWO different sections. All answers should be on a separate sheet of paper, stapled and ready to go the day you get back to school. The first section requires that you answer questions based on your opinion, along with information found through research. This section is completed PRIOR to reading the novel. The second section requires a thorough reading of the novel, after which you will be able to answer the questions provided. *DUE DATE: August 16, 2016 (the first day back to school) *NOTE: There will be a test on BOTH summer readings the day you get back. SECTION 1: PRE-READING AND RESEARCH Pre Reading Questions- based on your own opinion. Each answer should be a minimum of 8-10 sentences. 1. What responsibilities do individuals have in society? 2. What makes a good leader? 3. How can we avoid making the same mistakes that history has made? Research Topics- Provide a detailed description of the following topics. Each answer should be a minimum of 8-10 sentences. Do not plagiarize this information. Your summer assignment grade will be a ZERO. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT: ALL 10TH GRADE ENGLISH CLASSES
SECTION 2: QUESTIONS AND ANALYSIS BASED ON READING. Each answer should be a minimum of 8-10 sentences. 1. Compare Major’s speech, his dream, and his song “Beasts of England” in Chapter 1 to the situation of the farm in Chapters 9 and 10. 2. How do each of the animals’ personalities, actions, and failures to act contribute to the pigs’ control of the farm? 3. How does Major’s speech create both the energy and focus for a rebellion, and the seeds of failure of the utopian dream? 4. Analyze the farm as it appears in Chapter 10 to define and illustrate the term totalitarianism. 5. What is the function of food in Animal Farm? 6. Decide whether Snowball’s banishment in Chapter 5, Napoleon’s purge of the traitors in Chapter 7, or Boxer’s betrayal in Chapter 9 is the climax of the novel. Explain your answer. 7. Compare and Contrast the two songs “Beasts of England” (Chapter 1) and “Animal Farm, Animal Farm, Never through me shalt thou come to harm (Chapter 7). What is the focus of each song? 8. The windmill is symbolic of more than just one concept. Discuss as many of its meanings as possible. How does it symbolize the concepts that you have picked?
