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This is the post for Wednesday night's assignment. You should be responding to chapter 7. Below, post your comment for your fourth reading strategy. Follow the list of strategies we developed in class. Check your notes.
Remember, your job is to write 7-10 sentences that explain how you used the strategy to help yourself understand the chapter.
*Include your name!
*Include your section number!
*Include the name of the strategy your are using!
Keep calm and keep up with the work. Orwell would appreciate it.
Ikramah Isa 5/25/11- Visualize the movie
ReplyDeleteAs i was reading chapter VII, i practiced using the skill "visualize the movie". By using this strategy i was able to create a world in my head where the action within the book was taking place. I could picture the different camera angles and everything. I also tried to picture what sound affects would be necessary for every moment. I imagined the beginning of the chapter to appear as a wide establishing shot of the farm where it is snowing. During the scene where Napoleon was killing animals, i pictured Napoleon and the dogs to be shot at a low angle, making them superior over the guilty animals. I also pictured the rule of thirds being used in many of the scenes to focus on a certain object. I could picture a close up shot of snowballs footprints because they are of great symbolic importance. All in all, this strategy helped me picture the book in a whole new way and bring the text to life.
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ReplyDeleteAndrew Lin
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"Put yourself in the place of a character"
In Chapter 7, I read about all the controversy between Napoleon, Snowball and the animals. I have noticed Napoleon is beginning to slack off and tells Squealer to do the speeches for him as well as telling the animals the plans on what to do. I see Squealer as a back-up leader and seem to be the animal that talks too much, or a squealer. Here Squealer is given some sort of power. I've thought to myself that if I were to be Squealer, I would use Napoleon in order for me to gain power and eventually lead the farm. I hate how Napoleon runs this place and I think it is time for a new leader. Napoleon is a tyrant. I say he’s a tyrant because he talked to the neighboring farmers in order to trade. He broke one of the Commandments, which is “four legs good and two legs bad.” Napoleon also had the hens to surrender four hundred of their eggs per week. In exchange, the money of the eggs would pay enough for grain and food to keep the farm alive. Also, I would have Napoleon kicked from the farm.
Christina Zhang
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Reading Out Loud
When i was reading chapter 7, the part when the animals were confessing about what they did. Napleon wants to make everyone scare by executing the animals. He is trying to build up legends of snowball and make everyone scare. He thinks that isnt enough so then he began to execute more animals. Napleon is saying all the bad qualities he have and accused snowball, he is trying to make himself look like a good guy and make Snowball the villain. When Boxer said, "I dont believe that," he is becoming more and more gullible. He always do what he was told.
Nicolas Duenas
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Visualize the movie/book.
Reading chapter 7, I visualized many events and scenes. I was kind of amazed on how I visualized the scenes. I kind of made my own little world in my head. This little world is where I saw everything happen. I saw it so vividly, that I imagined how I, myself, would make "Animal Farm" into a movie. I pictured how I would have each camera angle at which time or scene. In this little world, I also made out voices for all the characters. I imagined how they would sound according to my context and their own dialogue. During the scene where Napoleon was killing animals, I pictured Napoleon at a low angle. As a result, the dogs were shot at high angle shot, making Napoleon superior over the guilty animals and the dogs look weaker than him. In conclusion, trying to visualize the book really helps you understand the plot and setting of the specific scene.
Lesley Liu
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Reading aloud
When I was reading chapter seven aloud about the part when the animals were confessing I thought that it make the scene more sad. I thought that reading aloud made the scene more sad is because it was very mean of Napoleon to kill all the animals. I think he is killing all those animals because he wants to be the leader of Animal Farm and wants to be the best. He's trying to make the animals think that Snowball is the bad guy while he is the good guy. He kills the animals to make himself feel better about being weaker than Snowball. He wants the animals to agree with him so that he could be the leader forever and distract them from their actual goal of communism. I think Napoleon is jealous of Snowball because everyone started to think that Snowball was better than him.
Bich Cao
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Reading out loud
Reading chapter 7 out loud was really tiring for me. My mouth was sore after a few paragraphs so I stopped and read silently. But while reading the first few paragraph out loud, I can sense that the mood is sad because everything is going down for the animals at animal farm. There was too much snow so they couldn't do any work. The food was runny out and the animals was starved. Finally when Napoleon ordered the chickens to surrender their eggs, it was so sad. I feel bad for the animals under Napoleon's control. When Snowball was there, everything was going smoothly, but when Napoleon took over, everything goes down. After Napoleon's order, the mood changed to anger from the other animals. The other animals were unhappy that their original goal was lost. It was so sad when Napoleon killed all the animals that confess to him about their crimes. I hope Snowball come back to kick Napoleon out.
Christina Wong
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Making a Movie
As I "made a movie" out of the chapter, I could picture certain scenes being displayed in certain angles. The angle and type of shot really emphasized the point of the scene. For example, I could picture a close up image of Boxer saying his undying quote of "I will work harder!" I can also picture a rack focus shot with Clover and Boxer working diligently while the other animals, out of focus, admire them from a distance. I pictured a tracking shot as Whymper was led through the shed to view the bins of "food" that was actually filled with sand. Being able to picture the story in my head as a movie made the story seem more dramatic. The angles and shots that I pictured really helped me imagine the seriousness of each scene.
Michele Li
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Read aloud
For chapter 7 of Animal Farm I have to read aloud. I usually do not read aloud, although I notice that it was more useful. Reading aloud prevented my mind from thinking about other things while reading. This technique also prevented me from falling asleep even if some parts of the chapter was borng. I was able to get a better sense of the mood/tone of tha chapter. I felt like reading aloud helped me catch the little details. Reading aloud really helps give a better understanding of the chapter even if it sounds ridiculous to do it in public or at home.
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ReplyDeleteNia Campbell
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"Put yourself in the place of a character"
In chapter 7 the animals are being put to work in the winter and they fall short of food. I'm putting my self in the place of the other animals working very hard because it seems that Napoleon is manipulating them into thinking that they are helping each other out by working and that this is a good thing but in reality its helping Napoleon and killing the farm animals. Napoleon tries to get the hens to produce more eggs to sell. The hens refuse and Napoleon decides to cut the hens ration of food entirely. Shortly after 9 hens died because of this. This is animal cruelty and Napoleon is abusing his power. He's also dictating the animals because now he has the power to do so.
Yue Tan
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Making predictions
In chapter 7 of Animal Farm, Napoleon takes away the anthem "Beasts of England." Napoleon's actions in this chapter makes the story more obvious the farm will fall apart even more, and faster. The animals will not be able to do anything against Napoleon because the animals themselves are too stupid to act against the pigs. In addition, the pigs have the dogs as backup and to scare away any doubts the animals may have. Very soon, the animals will be afraid to question anything the pigs, especially Squealer and Napoleon, says.
I also predict very soon, there will be classes of animals, such as low, middle and high class. The reason is Napoleon becoming a dictator, and no one will stay equal under a dictatorship.
Rayford Leconte
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Visualizing the movie
As I read chapter 7, I visualized a few scenes in order to get a better picture in my head of the main ideas of the scene. One main scene of this chapter that I visualized was the scene that Napoleon attacked the animals in the Farm with his dogs. I visualized the camera angle which would be a low angle shot from Napoleon to express that he is powerful. The camera angle fro the animals would be a high angle shot because that expresses that they are powerless compared to Napoleon and weak. This visualization helped me understand that Napoleon is only using the animal to do what he thinks is right for the farm. Napoleon forced them to do what he wants by using his 9 dogs. Visualizing the scene also helped me collect the main ideas of the scene and proceed to making predictions.