If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will be able to define and describe the central conflict of the book.
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Students will identify and discuss the role of the narrator, and what Orwell may have intended to say through this voice.
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Students will identify the primary themes, motifs, and symbols used in Animal Farm.
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Students will be able to understand such literary devices and genres as allegory, irony, fable, metaphor, and satire.
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Students will be able to identify and understand the allusions to various political ideologies, both historically and in the present day.
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