1. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7

2. The animals continue to work all year at a back- breaking pace to produce enough food for themselves. The leadership cuts rations explaining it as a “readjustment” 3 Boxer continues to do the work of 3 horses but never complains. 4 Animals learn to drop large pieces of stone in the quarry to beak them into more manageable pieces

3. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7 The animals suffer, but no more so than under Mr. Jones. They have enough to eat and can maintain the farm grounds. 2 Napoleon announces that he has hired a human solicitor, Mr. Whymper, to assist him in conducting trade. 3 Squealer explains that the founding principles of Animal Farm never included any prohibition against trade and the use of money. He adds that if the animals think that they recall any such law, they have simply fallen victim to lies fabricated by the traitor Snowball.

4. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7 1. Mr. Whymper visits the farm on Mondays, and Napoleon places orders with him. 2. 3. Muriel reads to clover one of the commandments but it now says “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets. 4. 5. Squealer shames the other animals into agreeing that pigs need more comfortable beds.

5. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7 1. A storm hits Animal Farm causing a lot of damage. 2. The animals check the fields and find that the windmill they have worked so hard on has been destroyed. 3. 4. Napoleon gives a speech in which he convinces the animals that they must rebuild the windmill despite the hard work. “Long live the windmill, Long live Animal Farm,” he says.

6. Pop Quiz Suckas!!! 1. Explain how the tactics that the pigs used in chapter 6 mirror what strategies governments to oppress their populations. 2. Analyze Napoleon's strategy when he blames Snowball for the windmill's destruction. What is really going on here? Critique if he is effective or not. 3. Analyze how Orwell is using satire to reflect on the cyclical nature of tyranny. 4. Explain what is happening to the pigs. Are they still pigs? Or are they representations of something else? The answer is not Stalin or Trotsky.

7. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7 1. In winter the animals struggle to rebuild the windmill, and they have a food shortage they try to conceal from other nearby farms. 2. Humans don't believe Snowball caused the destruction of the windmill, but that the walls were not thick. The animals call them liars but follow their advice by building thicker walls. 3. 4. The hens rebel against Napoleon.

8. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7 1. Nine hens die before the others give in to Napoleon's demands. 2. 3. Squealer announces that Snowball has sold himself to pinchfield farm and is helping Mr. Jones. 4. The animals are in disbelief about Snowball's treachery at the Battle of Cowshed and don't believe Napoleon and Squealer. 5. 6. Squealer describes Napoleon's heroism at the battle.

9. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7 1. Napoleon stages an inquisition with his dogs ringed around him and makes animals confess to working with Snowball. 2. 3. Boxer knocks the dogs away easily with his hooves. 4. many animals die, including the hens who rebelled. 5.

10. Animal Farm Chapters 6-7 1. Boxer believes that the tragedy occurred because of some fault of the animals. 2. 3. 4.Squealer bans “Beasts of England” and gives the animals a new song to sing.

11. Pop Quiz Suckas!!! 1. What is George Orwell satirizing at the end of chapter VII? Focus on Napoleon and what he has become (or perhaps he has been this the whole time.) What or who is Orwell criticizing with the events at the end of chapter VII. Explain how you know.