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Students began working in pairs on a "wanted poster" in which they will put out a bounty on one of the characters in the novel. To do so, they must find evidence about who the character is, what they are like, and what they have done that warrants a, well, warrant.

Goals are:
-Literacy: go back to the book and find evidence to support an idea
-Collaboration: working in a pair
-Artistry: create an appealing poster
-Apply: use propaganda techniques we learned about in class on a poster that should influence others' opinions.

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The DO NOW today was to think about what the phrase "herd mentality" means and what might be going through the heads of the players in six cartoons. The goal was also to show a different type of POLITICAL SATIRE (Animal Farm being the type we have been examining thus far).

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Today we reviewed the meaning of motif, then brainstormed what some motifs in Animal Farm are, then looked for them in Chapter Six.

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Today we reviewed chapter five and went over what the book notes are for:
-to give you a reminder of important people and events
-to force you to stop and think about what you are reading.
-to show your teacher you are doing the reading and what your take-aways are.
-to review what CONNECTIONS are. Many students say that they find coming up with connections difficult, and Jenn says that this is perhaps the most important point. If a reading doesn't connect to anything a person has experienced, read about, or thought about...then what IS the point?

We are finishing reading Chapter Five today for homework, which puts us at the halfway point through the novel.

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Following the Do Now, we read an article that explains herd mentality.

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Squealer often convinces the animals that what they THINK they remembered is not ACTUALLY what happened, even if it was. We then made connections to examples of gaslighting in today's world, including Covid misinformation and Trump's claims of the election being stolen.

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After planning out the posters Thursday, students worked in pairs (or a group of three for one class) and made their posters. Some need a bit more time on Monday. The results (some still in progress) are at the bottom.