Today, I gave you the following journal question to write on:
As evidenced in the story we just finished reading, power can corrupt. From your own experiences or observations, discuss a time when you have seen this. What was the outcome? Explain.
I then had you read your stories to each other and try to come up with a general thesis about the topic.
We then discussed these and arrived at the following definition:
When I say “power corrupts” we first have to determine who is in power. Then we have to determine what the “corruption” is. Corruption means to do things in a way that is unfair to those who don’t have power or way too nice to those who have power.
From here, we discussed the various leaders of animal farm (starting with Jones), and how they became or were unfair.
If you were not here, you will want to borrow and photocopy the notes from those who were. We specifically talked about scapegoating, direction of popular discontent, and the use of terror to remain in power.
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