Animal Farm Lesson Plan

Rituals in Daily Life

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to explore the role of ritual in their own experience and compare it to the animals'

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1

Structure:

Discuss the Sunday rituals of the animals. Generate a list of all the rituals the animals follow now—what makes their Sundays. Then lead a discussion of ritual and habit, and the distinctions between the two, creating a Venn diagram.

What are some of the rituals and habits that we as individuals, members of a family, and...