Novels

Animal Farm

NOVELS

"Animal Farm" by George Orwell, Secker & Warburg Ltd. 1945 London

Farmer Jones' animals revolted against their cruel owner, and ran the farm on their own, led by the pigs. Although they began as a democracy, it gradually developed into a dictatorship in which the pigs were the elite and Napoleon, the powerful and corrupt of the evil pigs, was the dictator.

This is a wonderful resource and we can do a lot with this book.
Here are some of my ideas.

* Discuss about dictatorship and democracy before reading the book.
* Three Level Guides on dictatorship.
* Who could be a dictator in a school, company or a farm?
    Could it be a democracy?
* Read the speech of OLD MAJOR, the highly regarded bore, and predic what will
    happen next. Or how the rebellion will take place (or not take place...)
* Compose a melody for the song, "BEASTS OF ENGLAND".
* Give different characters' descriptions to students and students draw their
    allotted animals with written descriptions and put the drawings on the wall.
* Predict which animal will be the leader.
* Make up seven commandments and compare with the one in the book.
* Predict which commandment will remain and how other commandments will be
    altered.
* Decide which animal is the stupidest of all and rank all the animals before
    reading the text and then compare.
* Drama activity.
* Watch the animated film on VIdeo.

If you have any suggestions, please email me! [email protected]

06 November 2002