Animal Farm
Pre-reading
1.
Visit Stonewall Farm
and experience what life on a working farm can be like. List some of the programs or events at Stonewall Farm
2.
Historical
Backdrop Notes paraphrase each section (put into your own words).
3.
Journal: Define a Freedom and
discuss its relevance to you. (1/2 page journal)
4.
Enrichment: Create an outline for a two-page research paper on
pigs.
5.
Time period Notes and create a timeline.
6.
Read Orwell's author biography and create an outline
7.
LONG TERM PROJECT: Begin Allegorical Animal
CHART
8.
TEST
Chapter One
1.
Read Chapter
One
2.
Define Chapter One Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter One Study Guide
4.
Discussion: How are all
animals equal, unequal, the same, and different? Support you answer with references to the story
5.
Journal: If MAN is removed
from the farm, predict how life might change (positive & negative) for the
animals on the farm.
6.
Memorable Quotation: “Beasts of England, beasts of
Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tiding of the
golden future time.”
7.
Enrichment: Visit the ASPCA, learn
about animal cruelty, and write a letter to voice your concerns.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Two
1.
Read Chapter
Two
2.
Define Chapter Two Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Two Study Guide
4.
Discussion: What role do
the pigs play on the farm?
5.
Journal: What would you be
willing to do for freedom? What would you
be willing to give up?
6.
Memorable Quotation:
“Those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery.”
7.
Enrichment: Visit any KHS Club, interview its leaders, and create a list of qualities a leader possesses.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Three
1.
Read Chapter
Three
2.
Define Chapter Three Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Three Study Guide
4.
Discussion: Discuss the possible
positive and negative aspects of Napoleon’s private education of the
puppies.
5.
Journal: Develop your own
personal motto and explain its significance.
6.
Memorable Quotation: “Four legs good, two legs bad.”
7.
Enrichment: Compose a
persuasive five-paragraph essay compelling people to believe something untrue
(i.e. the world is in fact flat).
Provide evidence and specific details proving your point.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Four
1.
Read Chapter
Four
2.
Define Chapter Four Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Four Study Guide
4.
Discussion: What advantage
did the animals have over the humans in the battle? What advantages did the humans have? Why did the humans lose?
5.
Journal: For what cause
would you be willing to fight (and maybe even die) for?
6.
Memorable Quotation: “War
is war. The only good human is a dead
human.”
7.
Enrichment: Research Julius
Caesar and comment on his leadership capabilities.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Five
1.
Read Chapter
Five
2.
Define Chapter Five Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Five Study Guide
4.
Discussion: What are the
dangers in a having an uneducated, uninformed, uninvolved voting populace?
5.
Journal: How do TV, magazine ads affect you? Visit this propaganda handout
to learn more.
6.
Memorable Quotation: “He would be only too happy to let you make
your decisions for yourselves. But
sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should
we be?”
7.
Enrichment: Research a current political candidate. Explain his/her platform(s) and why you
would/would not vote for this candidate.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Six
1.
Read Chapter
Six
2.
Define Chapter Six Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Six Study Guide
4.
Discussion: What has
happened (is happening) to Old Major’s ideals and the Commandments of
Animalism? Provide examples.
5.
Journal: Are all people
the same? Are all people equal?
6.
Memorable Quotation: “This
work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would
have his rations cut in half.”
7.
Enrichment: Discuss the
symbolism of the windmill from conception to destruction.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Seven
1.
Read Chapter
Seven
2.
Define Chapter Seven Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Seven Study Guide
4.
Discussion: Many animals
confessed to being in league with Snowball.
Discuss the alleged crime(s). Why would animals admit to their crimes
when conspirators were being slaughtered before their very eyes?
5.
Journal: Recount a time in
your life when an event didn’t turn out as well as you expected it to. What went wrong? Why?
6.
Memorable Quotation: “I
would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in
ourselves. The solution, as I see it,
is to work harder.”
7.
Enrichment: Research a
famous rebellion (Be sure to include the cause, the events of, and the final
result).
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Eight
1.
Read Chapter
Eight
2.
Define Chapter Vocabulary Eight
3.
Answer Chapter Eight Study Guide
4.
Discussion: To what degree
are the animals responsible for their own misfortune(s)? To what degree is Napoleon responsible? To what degree are the humans responsible?
5.
Journal: What are your
personal views regarding the consumption of alcohol? Why do you hold these views?
6.
Memorable Quotation: “Under
the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six
days.”
7.
Enrichment: Build a scaled
model of a windmill out of balsa wood.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Nine
1.
Read Chapter
Nine
2.
Define Chapter Nine Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Nine Study Guide
4.
Discussion: Why did the
animals follow Napoleon?
5.
Journal: How should
devoted employees/ citizens be treated in their infirmity or old age?
6.
Memorable Quotation:
“Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not
right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?”
7.
Enrichment: Research various
utopias and design your own Utopian Community.
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Chapter Ten
1.
Read Chapter
Ten
2.
Define Chapter Ten Vocabulary
3.
Answer Chapter Ten Study Guide
4.
Discussion: How has life
on Animal Farm come almost full circle?
5.
Journal: Come up with your
own “unalterable law of life” that contradicts (or expounds upon) Old
Benjamin’s.
6.
Memorable Quotation: “The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to
man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
7.
Enrichment: Continue
writing where George Orwell left off.
Is there another way for this story to end? Are there places in the story that could have been written
differently and consequentially affect the final outcome?
8.
Extra Credit
9.
TEST
Post-reading
1.
Revise, type, edit all Character
profiles and prepare portfolio.
2.
Revise,
type, edit Memorable Quotations and commentary and prepare portfolio.
3.
Commandments of Animalism
worksheet.
4.
LONG TERM PROJECT: Allegorical Animal
CHART Poster Project
due!
5.
Enrichment: In your
opinion, based on Animal Farm, how does George Orwell view the world, humanity,
government, change, rebellion, voters, the media, politicians, etc.?
6.
FINAL EXAM
Teacher Resources:
1.
Summaries
and Interpretations
3.
Time period Notes.