Friday, January 12th

• We'll begin with a review of the context of George Orwell's Animal Farm. You'll use your handout and notes from yesterday to complete a partner review quiz. We'll go over the review quiz and then you'll turn it in. 
• Finally, we'll read and discuss chapter one of Animal Farm. Pro-tip: you will have open notes reading quizzes throughout our study of this book, so be sure to take notes whenever we stop to discuss something important from the book and whenever I write something about the book on the board. 
• Notes: I'll introduce some of the key teachings of Karl Marx, which we'll connect to Orwell's novella. 
• Depending on time, we may examine a speech by Vladimir Lenin in March 1919, which you will use to write a one page essay in your notebook. Your essay must compare Lenin's speech to Old Major's speech in the first chapter of Animal Farm. It must also use brief quotes from each text to support your answers. 
• Before you leave today, turn in your class notebook.