Powernotes for Animal Farm Introduction

Powernotes for Animal Farm Introduction

Skills you will learn from this novel:

1)Characterization

2)Allegory/Historical Context

Part I: Characterization

1)Protagonist: the ______character

2)Antagonist: ______force the protagonist struggles with, such as another ______, ______, or something within the ______.

3)Flat character: a character who reveals only one, maybe two, ______in a story or novel.

4)Round character- a ______character who demonstrates ______and sometimes ______traits.

5)Static Character: a character that remains primarily the ______throughout a story or novel.

6)*Note: A character can be ______and ______.

7)Dynamic Character: a character who______during the course of a story or novel.

8)*Note: A character can be ______and ______.

9)Stock Character: a______character that appears in many stories. (Example: dumb jock, old librarian)

Part II: Historical Context

1)Animal farm is an ______.

2)Allegory means that the story has two ______. On the surface, you will see that this fable is about ______on a farm. But on a second level, each animal stands for, or ______types of ______or ______.

3) The way animals interact and the way the plot unfolds says something about the ______.

4)A fable is a narration to enforce a ______.

Czar Nicolas II

5)In early 1900s, leader Nicolas II of ______had a very ______.

6)Peasants were struggling to survive under his oppressive rule. In 1917 a ______began to ______Nicolas II.

Karl Marx

7)Inventor of ______: “All people are ______.”

8)He believed that ______owns everything; ______own the government.

9)He wanted to unite the working class so they would ______the government. He wanted to create a society in which everyone ______the work and equally ______from the work. He believed the ______was a way to achieve that.

10)He ______before the Russian Revolution began.

Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin

11)Nicolas II was ______.

12)The ______of the revolution, ______and the head of the ______party, ______both struggled for power.

13)______won the battle—he became a ______who loved power. He took land from many people, and ______millions using the ______. They were ______to Stalin.

14) Even though the main characters in Animal Farm are animals, they are really ______.

15)Animal Farm has many lessons to teach us about the ways that people ______.

2017 used “What’s in a Name?” worksheet instead.

Part III. Who do the characters represent? (We will complete this chart as we read the novel)

Historical figures/ideasAnimals/ideas who How do you know?

representthem(textual evidence)

Czar Nicolas II
Karl Marx
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
KGB- Secret Police
Communism