Name: ______

Animal FarmSatirical Allegory Project

As a final product for our Animal Farm unit, you will be writing your own satiricalallegories in class. Your allegory must be based on an event you have studied in history class this year (or an original current event/social issue.) This project will require you to research your event, construct characters that represent people/ideas/values from your event, and craft a short children’s story with illustrations. Your fictional story should include the following:

  • An opinion/message (revealed through plot events and message contributors) about your chosen event.

A minimum of three allegorical connections to your selected event.

A clear and historically accurate plot (include an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.)NOTE: If you’re exploring an original topic, you must come up with a clear timeline you will base your story around

Message Contributors:

  • See the rubric…

SEE ATTACHED RUBRIC FOR FULL LIST OF EXPECTATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

Animal Farm: Allegorical Children’s Book Rubric

Writing Packet:
•Is complete.
•Rubric and all templates are passed in. / 5
Allegorical Connections:
•Your children’s boock includes at least 3 clear allegorical connections to your chosen historical event. / 10
Message Contributors:
Choose 3 Message Contributors from the list below in addition to Characterization
  • Characterization: Your children’s book includes character development (include dialogue, and S.T.E.A.L. elements).
  • Irony: Your story employs situational, verbal, and/or dramatic irony
  • Propaganda
  • Purposeful Exaggeration
  • Repetition
  • Manipulation of Language/ Word Choice
/ 32
Author’s Satirical Message:
  • Your children’s book reveals an opinion (through the effective use of message contributors) about the historical event. Note: This may be revealed through the use of a satirical tone
/ 10
Proofreading:
•Your typed story has been proofread for mechanical errors (grammar/spelling/punctuation).
•Pages have between 50 - 100 typed words in size 18 Chalkboard font. No more than what fits in the template.
•Book can be no more than 10 pages
•Pictures use no stick figures and have clean lines. / 15
Works Cited Page
•At least 3 sources
•Proper format / 3
Effort & Focus
Care, effort and shared, productive group work is evident.
•Each picture is fully colored in and shows creativity/effort
•“About the Author(s)” page with a quick bio of each author (3-5 sentences). Picture is optional. / 10
TOTAL SCORE / 100

Allegory Project Topics

  • Patriots vs. Loyalists

Slavery

Any of the acts (Stamp Act, Tea, etc.)

Women during the Revolutionary Period (Molly Pitcher or Deborah Sampson)

Treatment of Colonists

Benedict Arnold vs. Gates

Salem Witch Trials

Articles of Confederation (Shay’s Rebellion)

Treatment of Native Americans

Option open for approval: Another topic covered in history class during your time at Diamond (Racism, Global Warming, ISIS, North Korea, etc.)

*Make sure to choose a topic that you have an OPINION about! Your allegory MUST contain a message/warning for your readers. Think of it as a cautionary tale(like Animal Farm, “The Butter Battle Book,” and “Harrison Bergeron” …not to mention countless fairy tales and fables!).

Name:Class Color:

The Butter Battle Book – Satirical Allegory Example

Historical Event: The Cold War

What is worthy of satire? The one-upmanship of the Arms Race (Soviet Union vs. United States). Competition between conflicting ideologies/belief/socio-economic systems threatened human existence.

What are you poking fun at to raise social/political awareness? The leaders and citizens who ignored people’s lives/well-being for competition’s sake(The Yooks and Zooks think that (a) how they butter their bread and (b) having the best weapons/technology is more important than human lives!).

Seuss’s Overall Stance:The Cold War is absurd, and if it continues at this pace, there may not be a future for our children. (Seuss makes this warning clear with his cliffhanger ending: Who will drop the “Big Boy Boomeroo?”)

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Directions: Using the model above, in the template below, please fill out the required details for your top three allegory topic choices:

Choice #1 - Historical Event:______

What is worthy of satire?______

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What are you poking fun at to raise social/political awareness?

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______Overall Stance:______

Choice #2 - Historical Event:______

What is worthy of satire?______

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What are you poking fun at to raise social/political awareness?

______

______

Overall Stance:______

Name(s): ______

HISTORY TEMPLATE: Outline your historic event in plot points

Exposition:

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Rising Action:

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Climax:

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Falling Action:

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Resolution:

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Name(s): ______

ALLEGORY TEMPLATE: Outline your historic event in plot points

(your plot points written here should mirror the event’s plot points on the other side…)

Exposition:

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Rising Action:

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Climax:

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Falling Action:

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Resolution:

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Author’s Message

4-5 sentences explaining your message/opinion and how your story shows this.

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Character Name/Animal Type / Character Description
(Think STEAL!) / Allegorical Connection (Person/Values/Ideas This Character Represents)