The ultimate 'Animal Farm' teaching pack...it's pigtastic!

I created this pack for my year eight students, but I have also delivered it very successfully to year nines and tens. It is huge, with well over thirty pages and over twelve sections, such as:
Introduction to Orwell, his social and political beliefs
Focused chapter comprehension tasks
What is an allegory?
What is satire and irony?
The language of political persuasion
Numerous student-centred tasks, from research to speaking and listening, creative writing to political speech-writing.

I deliberately designed the pack so that teachers can customise it by intended year group. Older kids will get more from the contextual background materials than younger ones. They do so well on this unit and love the political hustings orals, making a persuasive speech and getting confident with persuasive and satirical language. I prefer the older Halas and Bachelor film to teach alongside this scheme.