Herd Mentality: The Dangers of Following the Crowd

Which form of hook or attention grabber does the author use?

• Use of Humor

• Setting a scene

• Stating a fact

• Asking a rhetorical question

The main purpose of paragraph 1 is to...

• Describe why sheep have a herd mentality

• Inform about herd mentality in sheep and humans

• Argue that having a herd mentality is dangerous

• Compare and contrast sheep's herd mentality to humans' herd mentality

Underline the words or sentences in paragraph 1 that best prove the main purpose of paragraph 1.

By mentioning Animal Farm in paragraph 2, the author...

• Uses a simile to compare Animal Farm and America

• Alludes to Animal Farm to remind the reader of Orwell's political message regarding sheep and herd mentality

• Uses a metaphor about sheep to show that humans are like animals

• Illustrates sheep in a setting

Using evidence from the text, give an argument for which is more dangerous to the public—Polling or Fake News.

How does the author use a sophisticated transition to recap topics and transition to a new one in paragraph 4?

• Young voters...

• Not only...but

• Because parental figures...

• However...

The data in paragraph 4 contradicts itself. Which transition word helps the reader to notice this contradiction?

• However,

• Yet,

• Conversely,

• Instead,

Highlight the words or sentences in paragraph 4 that serve as evidence that young voters tend to follow their parents' political beliefs in yellow.

Highlight the words or sentences in paragraph 4 that serve as evidence that young voters tend to rebel against parents' political beliefs in a different color.

How can you better develop your own ideological consciousness by not, "blindly rejecting political beliefs out of rebelliousness nor blindly accepting political beliefs out of loyalty?"