Animal+Farm

=Building Bridges= Question on [|Goodreads]

Monday's class connected //Animal Farm// with relevant current events. With a dictator being toppled in Lybia and its people scrambling to assemble a government and a constitution, the rebellion at Manor Farm takes on significance today. Students noticed that in our society, too, the media can be used by those in power to control what people remember and think. It has also been paired with technology to speed up and to shorten messages, with texts, short Tweets, and quick visual editing rather than longer letters, essays, and takes. [Fifty years ago, the average film take was 20 seconds; today it is 2 seconds] Through its examples of reading, writing, revising, and interpretation by the animals, the book suggests things to our minds.

Some of the questions about the world that the text asks or makes us think of:
(like Jeopardy answers - we just turn the topics we discussed into questions)
 * Who has the power?
 * What is the best form of government?
 * Can you ever have a utopia?
 * How important is education to citizens of a society?
 * What is "truth"?
 * What is history?
 * What do //Fahrenheit 451, The Giver,// and //Animal Farm// have in common?
 * Can Christianity and communism peacefully coexist?