Because of the Close Reading, our RPR dates have slipped this week. We will spend time on Friday 5th refining our questions in class, and we'll keep the 22 October date for submission of detailed plans.
On the 22nd, I am expecting:
- A paragraph plan for your essay. This will lay out how you plan to answer the question.
- For each paragraph, you should have at least one piece of evidence from the text. This doesn't always need to be a quote, and may be a description of an incident or certain aspects of a character.
Your plan may look something like this (this plan is unfinished, as you can see):
Question: "Fiction can be used very effectively to highlight the problems or concerns of society." Show how George Orwell uses fiction in 'Animal Farm' to show the dangers of political dogma.
Introduction: Plot summary; brief description of the political allegory in Animal Farm; 'will show how Orwell uses the characters and their actions to show the dangers of political dogma'.
Paragraph 1: The rebellion /Old Major. Show how the initial ideals were quickly betrayed and twisted. Quotes from Old Major's speech "all men are enemies" vs "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy". Language can be twisted to do what you want it to do.
Paragraph 2: Napoleon and Snowball - Orwell uses two pigs to show how political rivalry can have a disastrous effect on leadership and ideals. **find evidence**
Paragraph 4 [outline; evidence]
Paragraph 5 [outline; evidence]
Conclusion
Look at the BBC Bitesize link on the right, and click through to 'Consider The Lilies'. This gives you some good advice on interpreting a novel.
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