Animal Farm Issuu Sampler

ANIMAL FARM

By George Orwell

Study Guide Written and illustrated by

BARBARA STANNERS

Acknowledgements The illustrations that appear in this book are based on the strip version drawings of the 1955, Halas and Batchelor film version of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” .

Study Guide Section 1 Student Worksheets 1. Plot Outline 2. Study guide 3. Extension Activities 4. Vocabulary Extension

Section 2 Teaching Notes 1. Author 2. Context 3. Plot Commentary 4. Characterisation 5. Setting and Structure 6. Themes 7. Literary Style 8. Vocabulary Extension answers

Student Worksheets 1. Plot Outline 2. Study guide and Wildlife Experience Sheets 3. Language Worksheets 4. Vocabulary Extension 5. Writing Tasks

PLOT OUTLINE Major dies and the pigs incite rebellion

Seven commandments are painted on barn wall Committees formed and a weekly Meeting held to celebrate ‘Animal Farm’ & the rebellion Jones and other farmers try to recapture Animal Farm Animosity between Napoleon & Snowball worsens Snowball is chased off Animal Farm by Napoleon’s dogs Animals work like slaves-60 hour weeks

Major’s inspirational speech and dream

Jones is run off Manor Farm and the animals take control Animals successfully bring in the hay harvest Pigs begin to take special privileges such as sole use of the apple crop

Under Snowball’s leadership, the attack is repulsed.

Snowball announces his Windmill plan Napoleon takes over the Windmill idea, declaring it was in fact his own.

Napoleon announces that there will be trade with neighbouring farms