Section 1: Section Diagnostic

For the Section 1 Diagnostic, you will submit a portfolio of work that showcases your character analysis, vignettes, and visual representation.

Portfolio Questions

1. As the allegorical narrative plot of Animal Farm develops, what is the role and importance of a specific character?

2. How might that character view and tell the story if it were written in first rather than third person?

Your portfolio should include the following:

1. A Character Note-Taking Tool that you maintain while reading the novel

2. An explanation of an evidence-based claim (short response) about your character’s role in the story and the character’s allegorical significance, which you drafted in Lesson 9, Activity 4, in response to the following question:

   • What role does your character play in the allegory of Animal Farm?

3. Your draft first-person narrative vignettes in which your character introduces themself (Lesson 6) and in which you depict an important scene from the character’s point of view (Lessons 10 and 11)

4. Visual representation(s) of your character (original artwork or an image drawn from others’ interpretations) (Lessons 7, 9, 11, and 12)

5. A reflection in which you discuss why you portrayed your character the way you did in the other portfolio pieces. In your reflection, be sure to reference the following;

   • your first-person narrative vignettes

   • your claims about the character’s role in the allegory

   • your visual representations

   • textual evidence you recorded in your Character Note-Taking Tool (Lesson 14)

Section 1 Diagnostic Guiding Questions

Use the following questions to help you evaluate and prepare your portfolio of evidence: