Fear in Animal Farm—Prewriting Worksheet You are going to write an essay about the role of fear in Animal Farm. You will have to figure out your own claim (hypothesis) about fear from your reading of Animal Farm. This worksheet is designed to help you gather data. A. Explain three moments in the novel where fear is the most significant emotion. Cite the PAGE NUMBER by each example. 1.______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ B. Which characters in Animal Farm use fear to their advantage? How? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ C. Which characters in Animal Farm are manipulated by fear? How? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ D. What are the different types of fear you see in Animal Farm? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
Essay Assignment Sheet: The Role of Fear in Animal Farm
Think about all the ways that fear is important in Animal Farm. Choose three characters and two specific passages that suggest to you a certain claim about how and why fear functions in this novel. Based on this data set, and your knowledge of the novel, formulate a solid hypothesis about the role of fear in Animal Farm. My hypothesis (claim):_____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ What will you have to prove in order to show that your hypothesis is true?____________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Remember that a hypothesis (claim) is “an educated guess,” as your science teachers have taught you. Your hypothesis might need to change as you write because you might discover evidence you had not previously considered. Keep an open mind.
Write an original essay that examines the role of fear in Animal Farm. Make sure your introduction discusses the importance of fear in the novel in general before you state your specific claim about fear. Your claim will be the last sentence of your introductory paragraph. In your essay you must cite at least two specific examples from the text which illustrate your idea (data). You will put the page number in parenthesis after each example. You will explain why and how each example proved your claim (warrant).
The first typed draft of this essay is due Thursday, 9/18.