Assignment+1

Greetings! Welcome to Honors English 9. For this summer, as you already know, you are reading Animal Farm. It is not a long novel, so you will have plenty of time to read it. However, do not wait until the last minute, because you must meet deadlines for the assignments. Therefore, plan your reading schedule around your summer activities. If you are going away to camp in July, read ahead, etc. Your first assignment is to read Chapter I of the novel. Future assignments may involve reading other articles (links to them will be provided on this site), but you will be given those in due time. For now, know that the following chapters are to be read by these due dates. Ch. I--June 27 Ch. II--July 3 Ch. III--July 11 Ch. IV--July 18 Ch. V--July 25 Ch. VI--Aug 1 Ch. VII--Aug 8 Ch. VIII--Aug. 15 Ch. IX--Aug 22 Ch. X--Aug. 24 Notice you have a shorter time period to read the final chapter. Now, your assignment for Chapter I. You will submit a summary of the chapter, including key plot developments and character descriptions. Describe Mr. Jones, Old Major, and Moses. Also, include at least 2 examples of a literary device used by Orwell in this chapter. Literary devices are things such as simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, among others. Define the literary device you have found, quote the passage in which the device is given, and explain how that passage fulfills the definition of that particular device. Your 2 examples must be 2 different devices. In other words, you cannot give me two similes or 2 examples of personification. This submission must be at least 350 words. In order to submit your post, please do the following: Click on the option to View Discussion Posts. It is at the top of the page. Once you do that, you will then have an option to add a post. You will submit your work through this post. Thank you. One word of warning. I read SparkNotes and other sites like it! So that means you shouldn't be! You must read this novel, students. Do not attempt shortcuts. If I see that your submissions resemble what I find on Internet summaries such as SparkNotes, I will be contacting you for an explanation. If I determine you have plagiarized, then you will receive a 0% for that assignment. I expect you to do your own work on this assignment. That's all for Assignment 1. I'm keeping it simple to start. Future assignments will require more work. For now, I'll let you know that you will need to start thinking about how this novel is related to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Also, you will be comparing this novel to the works of other authors, in particular Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. So start thinking about that. Remember, the deadline for this assignment is June 27th. I will be checking on here daily, and anything submitted after the due date will receive major point deductions.