1. Documenting the battle of the cowshed
Mr. Verlin
South Philadelphia High School
February 17, 2015
Documenting the battle of the cowshed

2. Preliminaries
In your journals, respond briefly to the following prompt: “Describe the popular monument that is depicted in this image. What are your associations with this monument? What stories have you heard about this monument? Do you think monuments like this one are important? Why or why not?” While students are writing, circulate and stamp QNTs.

3. Objectives:
The students will be able to write a journalistic account of the Battle of the Cowshed in Animal Farm.

4. Focus Lesson: Documenting…
Review of literary terms
Byline
Lead
Anecdote
Sources
Primary
Secondary
The Battle of the Cowshed

5. Focus Lesson: Documenting…
Small Groups: write a newspaper article of at least 200 words documenting the battle. The article must contain the following:
A headline
A byline
A lead paragraph
A body paragraph detailing the event including at least two of the following:
Anecdote
Primary source
Secondary source