About This Lesson
In this unit, students will read George Orwell’s Animal Farm. They will consider the ways that language can be used to influence people by identifying propaganda techniques, watching clips of current commercials and modern day political speeches, and analyzing World War II posters. They will write a short comparative essay between Old Major’s speech in the novel and Lenin’s speech in 1919. Students will also consider the ways that authority figures obtain and keep power, and they will design their own country with commandments based on their own priorities and values. At the end of the unit, students will identify an issue in their own community for which to create a propaganda poster and explanation to present to the class.
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