公益阅读课—中章

22 OCT 2022 Instructor: Scarlett

Course Duration: 60min Attention Span：60min

1. Contents:
Series/Autho content
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Book/Chapte
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Review 1 A story, play, picture, etc. in which each character or event is a
symbol representing an idea or a quality, such as truth, evil, death, etc.,
Allegory typically a moral, political, or religious one.
2 Key points: A narrative/story
Characters, events, ideas—a bigger or deeper concept
Acts as an extended metaphor
Story has two meanings: literal & figurative

New Manor Farm

Old Major -- Karl Marx
Setting & Mr. Jones -- Tsar Nicolas II
characters Napoleon -- Joseph Stalin
Snowball -- Leon Trotsky
Squealer -- Government Propaganda
The dogs --KGB
Moses the Raven -- Eastern Orthodox 东正教
Mollie -- vain, selfish people
Boxer-- Dedicated, but tricked supporter
Benjamin -- skeptics

Chapter 1 Old Major summoned every animal for a meeting

He mentioned his dream, and passed on his wisdom about life.

Summary & “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs or
has wings is a friend.”
analysis
“No animal must ever live in a house or sleep in a bed, pr ear clothes, or
drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade.”

Animals sang “Beasts of England”.

2. Feedback

这次课在开始讲人物角色的时候，分析了重点的角色以及他们所代表的真实的历史人物，因此花
的事件长一些，读的内容也多一些。清楚了各个角色还有人物之后呢，对后面故事的理解还有人物
的行为也就能去做一些预判，也更加能够理解故事的发展。
课堂上提到了一些比较抽象难理解的词汇，比如说 propaganda 宣传,Orthodox 东正教，skeptics
怀疑主义者等。 如果还是不太明白，孩子们课后可以自己查一些资料。

另外呢，大部分词汇把意思也给了大家，希望能够提前熟悉单词，课堂上就不会太花时间讲词汇了。

3. Homework
(1) listen to the recordings of the story
(2) work on the vocabulary and key points listed above
(3) read chapter 3&4

4. Content of the next lesson

Animal Farm- chapter 2&3&4