Bring Your Character in a Bag - Animal Farm (Middle, Literature)

If you are just starting out with Animal Farm by George Orwell, consider this resource. Titled as discussion notes, you might use these questions in a variety of different ways. The questions and prompts start out simple and gradually...

In this Animal Farm comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer questions and define 5 terms pertaining to chapter 3 of Animal Farm by George Orwell in order to help them better understand the novel.

Introduce your class members to allegory and propaganda with a series of activities designed to accompany a study of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Readers examine the text as an allegory, consider the parallels to collective farms...

Before kids analyze a Chinese dish filled with amazing images, they research the meanings of various plant and animal symbols. They use their research to decode the meaning of the expressive artwork on the dish and then use symbolism to...

This lesson focuses on the reading of Animal Farm by George Orwell. It provides links to a study guide and an online text of the novel. It lists The Seven Commandments, Animal Farm's original Constitution and reminds students to pay...

This is an introduction to a unit on the political allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell, in which he uses animals to symbolize political leaders in the Russian Revolution.

This lesson in the Animal Farm unit focuses on George Orwell, literary terms, and the Russian Revolution. It provides links to biographies of Orwell including text and video, links to literary terms fitting to Animal Farm, and links to...

This lesson focuses on the allegorical representations of characters in Animal Farm and literary terms. It provides a link to an activity matching the characters from the story to their political counterparts and an interactive crossword...

"Animal Farm" (1945) is a novella by George Orwell about the development of Russian communism under Joseph Stalin delivered in allegorical form. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and...

The main objective is for students to be able to interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm. Students will then have an opportunity to represent that character in original symbolic form and present it orally to the class.