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Creative reasoning in the interactive classroom: experiential exercises for teaching George Orwell's "Animal Farm."

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From: College Literature
Date: 19960601
Author:Knapp, John V.

Whole-group discussion is proposed as an alternative to lecturing in teaching literature. Using George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' as an example, it was shown that the approach is effective in generating student response and developing interpersonal skills such as active listening, questioning, explaining, paraphrasing and summarizing.

Simplification is vexation, Work sheets are as bad; Then the old ennui just crushes me, And practice drives me mad! So give me argumentation! More give and take agrees, Helps me in my education, Then Orwell seems a breeze. ("The Bald-headed Bard" 1996)

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