Chapter eight Review and ReflectWhat band level am I working at?

Using the assessment descriptors, what skills have I achieved?

How do I move up a level?

Band 5

Candidates demonstrate:Sustained, sophisticated interpretations of texts – A02 isustained and sophisticated engagement with writers’ ideas and attitudes and sophisticated interpretations using imaginatively selected supporting textual detail – A02 iisophisticated analysis of aspects of language and structure – A02 iiiperceptive and mature comment on the significance of the contexts – A02 iv

Band 4

Candidates demonstrate:sustained and developed interpretations of texts – A02 iengagement with writers’ ideas and attitudes and provide perceptiveinterpretations using precisely selected supporting textual detail – AO2 iianalysis of aspects of language and structure in convincing detail - A02 iiiconvincing connections between the texts and their contexts – A02 iv

Band 3

Candidates demonstrate:clear evidence of understanding of significant meanings of the text – A01iability to explain writers’ ideas clearly offering relevant and appropriatesupporting textual detail –A02 iiability to display understanding of features of language and structure supported by relevant and appropriate quotation – A02 iiiability to explore the significance of aspects of the contexts matched totextual details. – A02 iv

Band 2

Candidates demonstrate some awareness shown of more obvious meanings in the text – A02 isome awareness of writers’ ideas supported by relevant textual detail – A02 iisome awareness of obvious features of language and structure supported by some relevant textual detail A02 iiimake some relevant comments about the significance of the contexts – A02iv

Band 1

Candidates demonstrate: limited understanding of the texts A02 ilimited engagement with the writers’ ideas – A02 iireference to a limited range of textual detail – A02 iiisome awareness of contexts but very limited comment on their significance – A02 iv

Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness!

Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy

Calm and commanding eye, Like the sun in the sky,

Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of

All that thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon;

Every beast great or small Sleeps at peace in his stall,

Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig,

Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or as a rolling-pin,

He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee,

Yes, his first squeak should be "Comrade Napoleon!"

Contrast between spiritual reference and very earthy reference

Find examples of irony in this song to Napoleon.

As they approached the farm Squealer, who had unaccountably been absent during the fighting, came skipping towards them, whisking his tail and beaming with satisfaction.

How is the verb ‘unaccountably’ ironic? What is Orwell suggesting to the reader about what Squealer was really doing during the destruction of the Windmill?

A cry of lamentation went up. Straw was laid down outside the doors of the farmhouse, and the animals walked on tiptoe. With tears in their eyes they asked one another what they should do if their Leader were taken away from them. A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon's food. At eleven o'clock Squealer came out to make another announcement. As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death.

At first, it is announced that Napoleon is dying. But what is really wrong with him? How does Orwell suggest this to the reader?

Point Evidence Explain

How does Orwell use irony in chapter eight?

Why do writers use irony?

• To make clear what the writer thinks is really the truth

• To highlight the importance of the truth

• Irony is intentional• Irony is sometimes confused with

sarcasm but sarcasm is more direct and intended to be hurtful or cutting