Animal Farm teaching pack
Develop your GCSE students’ critical reading skills with our chapter-by-chapter look at this famous text.
Character and close text analysis, research tasks, role play, quizzes and exam style questions combine to support your students’ understanding of the story of Napoleon, Snowball and their comrades.
What's included?
- 20 creative lessons
- exam-style questions for AQA, Edexcel and OCR
- activities to develop students’ critical reading skills in preparation for the GCSE.
What's inside?
Introduction (page 4)
Specification summaries (page 5)
Chapter 1: Lesson 1 (pages 6-16)
- Resource - story checklist
- Resource - allegory / fairy tale Bingo
Chapter 1: Lesson 2 (pages 17-27)
- Resource - character traits card sort
- Resource - sources of satire
- Resource - Karl Marx, Old Major match up
Chapter 2: Lesson 3 (pages 28-34)
- Resource - cause and effect
- Resource - symbolism in Animal Farm
- Resource - Communist Manifesto matching activity
Chapter 2: Lesson 4 (pages 35-40)
- Resource - getting to know the pigs
Chapter 3: Lesson 5 (pages 41-45)
- Resource - putting in the work
- Resource - getting to know Boxer
Chapter 3: Lesson 6 (pages 46-52)
- Resource - animals and literacy
- Resource - implied meanings
Chapter 4: Lesson 7 (pages 53-55)
Chapter 4: Lesson 8 (pages 56-59)
- Resource - what part do the animals play?
Chapter 5: Lesson 9 (pages 60-63)
Chapter 5: Lesson 10 (pages 64-68)
- Resource - Democracy or Dictatorship?
Chapter 6: Lesson 11 (pages 69-74)
- Resource - persuasive techniques
- Resource - animals’ attitudes to work
Chapter 6: Lesson 12 (pages 75-79)
- Resource - propaganda posters
Chapter 7: Lesson 13 (pages 80-85)
- Resource - how to bury bad news
Chapter 7: Lesson 14 (pages 86-90)
- Resource - Squealer’s sneaky tactics
Chapter 8: Lesson 15 (pages 91-94)
- Resource - the cult of Napoleon
- Resource - manipulation of facts
Chapter 8: Lesson 16 (pages 95-97)
Chapter 9: Lesson 17 (pages 98-105)
Chapter 9: Lesson 18 (pages 106-112)
- Resource - epitaphs and obituaries
Chapter 10: Lesson 19 (pages 113-120)
- Resource - what happened to the animals?
- Resource - coming full circle
- Resource - Animal Farm map
- Resource - word cloud
- Resource - coat of arms
Chapter 10: Lesson 20 (pages 121-132)
- Resource - pig or human?
- Resource - familiar with the farm
- Resource - plotting the rise and fall
Exam practice (pages 133-153)
- AQA style questions
- Edexcel style questions
- OCR styles questions
This is an example of a student activity from the Animal Farm teaching pack.
Coming full circle
One of Orwell’s goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian Revolution and show that often a rebellion doesn’t change things for the ‘workers’, in fact they can often be worse off than before.
Match up the quotations on the left (taken from the beginning of the book) with those on the right (taken from the last chapter). Arrange them in a circular way so you can see how things have come full circle.
Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. |
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Some day it [the Rebellion] was coming. |
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. |
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… from pig to man again; but it was impossible to say which was which. |
I do not know when the Rebellion will come. |
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They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields. |
Jones will sell you to the knacker. |
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Boxer was forgotten. |
All the habits of man are equal. |
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Neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by their own labour. |
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