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Historical Backdrop: Orwell and the Times in Which He Lived Animal Farm was published in August of 1945--a crucial moment in European and world history. In the previous four months, President Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler had died and Winston Churchill had been voted out of office. Germany had surrendered, and the U.S. had dropped atomic bombs over Japan . Of the big three Allied leaders, only Stalin survived. In some ways, Animal Farm stands at the very beginning of the Cold War. During World War II , Russia had been an ally of the U.S. and England . After the battle of Normandy in February of 1944--when the Allies first began to beat back the German forces--Western nations felt a strong feeling of solidarity with the Russian people. The Russian army had suffered great losses, but it had helped protect England from a German invasion. As a result of the pro-Russian atmosphere, Orwell had a hard time finding a publisher for Animal Farm . However, in the years followi...

Zooniverse : Volunteer to contribute to projects where you identify animals in photos and help train AI to automate these tasks Geoguessr : Get dropped into Google Maps' first-person mode and navigate to gather clues and ultimately guess where in the world you are! CNN 10 : Find resources for your biweekly News Article summaries. Geography Section A Unit 1 Geography Section B Unit 1

Pre-Civil War A History of Us, Book 5: Liberty for All? (1820-1860) Preface Chapters 1-2 Chapters 5-8 Chapters 10-12 (12 is double length) Chapters 13-15 Chapter 16 (double length) Chapter 18 Chapter 20 Chapters 22-26 Chapter 29 Chapter 31 Chapters 32-38 (31 chapters or equivalents, 40 days?) Readings from the History of Us Sourcebook All readings from pages 97-153 (22 readings) Related media Amistad 12 Years a Slave The Civil War Ken Burns' The Civil War 9 episodes, 12 hours (24 sessions) If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War pages 9-18 pages 34-37 pages 48-55 pages 58-62 History Pockets: The American Civil War Pocket 1: Introduction to the American Civil War (skip word search and scramble) Pocket 2: Slavery in America, "Voices of Protest" only Pocket 3: Leaders of the War Pocket 7: War Technology (4-6 sessions) The Civil War Experience: Three Interactive Stories Read all three multiple times, m...

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