Power+and+Corruption

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Research an example of power and corruption. You can use the resources below, the previous example you used in your SAC, or any other example you can think of. You need to be able to understand what occurred, and what the example says about the theme 'power and corruption'. [|Extract] from Will Hutton's book 'The writing on the wall' - Communist China (present day) [|Reserve Bank Corruption] (present day) [|The Age] Investigative journalism page - links to many cases of corruption in Australia [|Melbourne Storm] salary cap breaches Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany Police corruption and about a million other things...
 * Historical and Modern Examples of Power and Corruption**

What kind of power and corruption is depicted in this example? Who has power and who does not? What led to the rise of power and subsequent corruption? What was the aftermath of the corruption of power? How were/are people affected by this rise to power and corruption? How do they cope with the rise to power and subsequent corruption? What did/do people say about the power and corruption? Who is to blame for the rise of power and corruption? Does this power and corruption relate to your own life? The most important question: **What is the author saying about power and corruption in describing this incident?** How do the authorial choices about language and structure help to convey particular views of power and corruption?
 * Ask yourself these questions in order to understand the context of 'power and corruption':**

During the Exam:
When you choose a prompt, ask yourself: what is the **idea** at the heart of the prompt? What **comment** does it make about power and corruption? Don't take the prompt literally - it is there to represent and idea about power and corruption which you can write about. Whatever the prompt says, it is going to be about the context 'power and corruption' so that is what you will be writing about, trying to incorporate ideas from George Orwell and the research you have been doing into a specific example of power and corruption.

When you choose a form in which to write: make sure you use the conventions of that form - structure it well and use the type of language that is appropriate for that form.

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[|BBC] website menu containing links to interactive animated activities on the Russian Revolution, The Bolsheviks and Stalin, as well as information/review and tests. The interactive animations are brilliant, explaining history in a simplified and very funny way.

Activity One:
View the ppt, read the pdf files and listen to the podcasts below in the resources section - whatever will help you to gain a better understanding of the Russian Revolution.

Activity Two:
Read the following file which is a brief history of events in Russia between 1917 and 1945: Using what you know from your own reading of 'Animal Farm' and the following chapter summaries : Complete the activity that is explained in the box 'About Politics' on the Russian Revolution handout. This activity requires you to draw up a table in your workbook/in a Word document, then next to each numbered historical event of the Russian Revolution, explain which plot event from 'Animal Farm' is linked.

Activity Three
In small groups, the following Inspiration mind map on your allocated character; then insert the saved .jpg file you export from Inspiration into the box, below the character's name. Amy, Will & Reece || Napoleon -Maddie, Rebekah, Lucy and Kristen [|nap_characteranalysis.jpg] || Squealer || Brittany, Aleeshia & Sheridan [|Boxer.jpg] || Dogs Ben, Jack & Bowen || Mollie || Joshua, Foti and Jacob || Benjamin [|af_characteranalysis.jpg] (Megan and Nat) || Humans: Farmer Jones/Pilkington/Frederick Jesse, Josh. P & Paul [|af_characteranalysis.jpg] ||
 * Snowball
 * Boxer
 * Moses

Activity Four
Go to the propaganda page and in a small group (3-4) complete the activity.

Activity Five
Individually, create your own propaganda poster, using the same techniques/style, but in a different context. You may use any imaging program to do this (Photoshop, IrfanView, PaintShop Pro etc). The context for the posters in the previous activity was Stalinist Russia, however for your own poster you need to come up with a different context. This may be a real historical event or an imaginary/future event. Focus on the types of messages that are communicated in the real posters and imagine new messages for a new context.

Activity Six
Read the excerpt from the novel and complete the questions on the context page

Writing Style and Genre
Writing Styles Activity

=Resources=

Animal Farmmedia type="custom" key="5896663" align="right"
George Orwell's essay; titled [|Why I write]

Notes on the author:

The Russian Revolution/Stalin
Causes of the Russian Revolution media type="file" key="d5_causes_of_the_russian_revolution_of_march_1917.mp3" width="240" height="20" Lenin and The Bolsheviks media type="file" key="d6_lenin_and_the_bolsheviks.mp3" width="240" height="20" Stalin media type="file" key="d7_stalin.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * Podcasts:**

[|The Stalin Project] is a website full of information on Stalin, life under his rule, background and much more