Introduction to Animal Farm

Animal Farm Ch. 6

New Focusing Question

Now that you have read ch. 6, you have advanced to our new focusing question: How and why is language dangerous?

Open Ended

What's an example of when language may be dangerous?

Multiple Select

Let's summarize the key events in ch. 6. Which did NOT occur in the chapter?

• The animals, and especially Boxer, continue to work harder than ever before.

• Napoleon announces that the animals will trade with other farms.

• The pigs move into the farmhouse and sleep on beds.

• Snowball returns to the farm and gives a speech.

• The windmill falls over.

Multiple Choice

The commandment that "No animals shall sleep in beds" was changed to

• No animals can sleep at all.

• No animals shall sleep in beds with sheets.

• No animals shall sleep in beds without sheets.

Open Ended

What does the change in the commandment mean or reveal about what is happening on the farm?

Scapegoat-Read over these sentences.

• Napoleon uses Snowball as a scapegoat and says that he is the enemy who has destroyed the windmill.

• Instead of taking responsibility for her own problems, the midwife makes Alyce her scapegoat and blames her when things go wrong.

• The internment of Japanese Americans in World War II is an example of a government unfairly making a racial or ethnic group a scapegoat.

Multiple Choice

Based on how scapegoat was used in the previous sentences, what do you think it means?

• when someone is blamed for another's wrongdoing

• a goat that barely escaped slaughter

Open Ended

Why might Napoleon have used Snowball as a scapegoat?