High Intermediate - Advanced ESL Book Club - Animal Farm

ESL Book Club will read Animal Farm by George Orwell. This book club is best for high intermediate - advanced English learners. Students will read at home each week. Then you will meet as a group once a week to talk about the story, learn new vocabulary, and practice conversation. Book club will be led by Fernando Lopez. Meeting dates: April 16, 23; May 7, 14, 21, 28. No class April 30th.Meeting time: Thursdays, 10:30am - 12:00nRegistration is open now! Book club is limited to 7 participants. Books will be provided for registered participants to keep. Please consider your schedule and do not register if you will miss more than one meeting.Animal Farm:George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.