Literary analysis
Making inferences and drawing conclusions
From doing the animal farm project, I learned three main skills that will greatly affect my school career. The first skill I learned was interpretation. Animal farm was a book overflowing with allegory and rhetoric writing. To understand the book fully, you had to use you imagination to the extent of "living" in each and every decision, opinion, and action made. Since this book was an allegory, the moral, or hidden meaning of the book was not just given to the reader. The reader had to really put him or herself into the shoes of the characters to truly understand the lessons learned from the story. It was defiantly not easy to understand the book if you weren't reading carefully.
The second thing I learned was literary analysis. This second skill kind of ties into the first, because interpreting means making an opinion on something, but to make an opinion, you need to analyze first. Reading the book and understanding why something happens or what is going on is what I learned from this project. Since we pretty much had to make a summary of the book, we had to really understand what we were reading, so we could correctly make our project.
The third skill that I improved on was my making inferences and drawing conclusions. An inference is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. Because of the project, I had to really understand what I was reading, then reach a conclusion on if the decision was right or wrong. Coincidentally, drawing conclusions was the most important thing I learned from the project. We not only had to draw for the actual project literally, but we also had to mentally draw conclusions to fully understand the book.
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