Animal Farm Ch 6-8 Exit Ticket

How does blaming Snowball for the problems on the farm allow the pigs to benefit?

• It allows the pigs to plan a new attack against Farmer Jones. 

• It allows the pigs to avoid being blamed for their failures on the farm.

• It causes the other animals to forget about their problems since Snowball is gone.

• It causes the other animals to question the pigs’ leadership and Old Major’s vision.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.9

Reread the following passages from pages 64 and 67:

“A few animals still felt faintly doubtful, but Squealer asked them shrewdly, ‘Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?’” (64)

“‘You have heard then, comrades,’ he said, ‘that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? … You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties? Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?’” (67)

How do Squealer’s repeated questions impact the other animals?

• These questions give the other animals the confidence to stand up to those who are treating them unfairly.

• These questions cause the other animals to question themselves and what they think they know is true. 

• These questions help to calm the animals’ worries about whether Jones might return to the farm.

• These questions cause the other animals to form a secret rebellion against the pigs and dogs.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Reread the following stanza from page 94: 

“Thou are the giver of 

All that thy creatures love,  

Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; 

Every beast great or small  

Sleeps at peace in his stall,”

Which piece of evidence best contradicts the ideas in the poem?

• “Throughout the year the animals worked even harder than they had worked in the previous year.” (Page 92)

• “To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.” (Page 92)

• “There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better then they had done in Jones’s day.” (Page 92)

• “The animals saw no reason to disbelieve him, especially as they could no longer remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the Rebellion.” (Page 92)

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9