Animal Farm
They Called Us Enemy
Without Rule of Law
O.P.L.A. Structure
Bonus: Grammar
100

These animals consolidate power on the farm and eventually regress back to the oppressive ruling style of the humans.

Who are the pigs?

100

This vehicle is what George and his family travel aboard from Santa Anita racetrack to the Rohwer internment camp.

What is a train?

100

This character represents the voice of men who talk down to women, and of figures of authority who dismiss children and teens.

Who is Robbie?

100

This is the central idea of your answer: the point you are trying to prove throughout the answer.

What is a thesis?

100

This grammatical error happens when a sentence has insufficient punctuations and is thus too long. 

What is a run-on sentence?

200

This character represents the working class; he works hard and believes everything he is told by the pigs.

Who is Boxer?

200

After which historical event from World War II did the United States enter the war in 1942?

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

This character creates survival tutorial videos on YouTube for a channel she named @TheEighthGradePrepper. Which character is this?

Who is Jo?

200

This section of your answer contains a quote or paraphrase and an in-text citation.

What is Prove?

200

This type of clause contains a subject, a predicate, and a complete idea.

What is an independent clause?
300

These animals represent a tyrannical government's brutal and murderous police force that kill dissenters.

What are dogs?

300

Takei's father uses these two words when describing to him what kind of government the United States operates as. 

What is participatory democracy?

300
Maureen apologizes to her school for using this device to fake an emergency drill.

What is an air-raid siren?

300

This section of your answer clarifies why your quotation confirms your thesis.

What is Explain?

300
This punctuation mark can be used to join two independent clauses that are closely linked.

What is a semicolon?

400
This novel is an example of this literary genre, where every element of the story serves to illustrate a greater lesson or moral. 

What is an allegory?

400

As George Takei grows up, he comes to the conclusion that the internments were not just an attack on Japanese-Americans, but an attack on this foundational pillar United States democracy.

What is the constitution?

400

This two-word theme explores how society thinks men and boys should act as being different than how women and girls should act.

What are gendered expectations?

400

An in-text citation is composed of these two pieces of information.

What are author's name and page number?

400

FANBOYS is a mnemonic device to help us remember which category of words?

What are coordinating conjunctions?
500

This characteristic of the pigs is given to the other animals in order to explain why they don't do any of the physical labour on the farm.

What is intelligence?

500

This Japanese term denotes Japanese-Americans who are second-generation immigrants, meaning they were born in the United States, but their parents were born in Japan.

What is nisei?

500

The characters find crude Sharpie drawings of a lion, and a lamppost in The Pit, which are references to this work of fiction.

What is Narnia?

Other possible answer: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

500

Your "State" section indicates why your thesis is true, but also provides this important information to your reader before the upcoming quote.

What is story context?

500

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This sentence type is the most elaborate: it consists of two or more independent clause followed by a dependent clause.

What is a compound-complex sentence?

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