Animal Farm

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