Animal Farm pack of five lessons

This pack includes content for five 45-minute lessons, ideally suited for teaching online but adaptable for in-person learning.

There are no handouts but lots of close readings and accompanying activities to help KS3 pupils grow in confidence with George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm.

List of lessons:

1. Defining and identifying features of dystopian fiction. (Chapter 1)
2. How utopia is represented in Animal Farm (Chapter 3)
3. How the pigs and the horses are used to illustrate changes from utopia to dystopia (Chapter 3)
4. How Orwell uses personification and narratives of success and sacrifice to tell the story of revolution (Chapter 4)
5. How Orwell uses characters with differing perspectives to show conflict within revolutionary movements (Chapter 5).
6. How Orwell represents dystopia (Chapter 9)