ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTER 1. SET: MONDAY 16TH JANUARY. DUE IN: MONDAY 23rd JANUARY
Read Chapter 1 of Animal Farm and write down:
1. A list of all the animals who attend Old Major’s meeting – and their physical description.
2. The linguistic techniques that Old Major uses in his speech – and an example of each. Look at the list – what kind of
leader do you think he would have made if he had lived.
3. The main points of Old Major’s speech. Take a paragraph at a time and write down the main point of that paragraph.
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTER 2. SET: MONDAY 23RD JANUARY. DUE IN: MONDAY 30TH JANUARY
Read Chapter 2 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
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Break chapter 2 down into ten key events and then list them in the order that they happen.
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If you had to put the animals into a hierarchy (order of importance) what would it be?
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What do the seven commandments and the destroying of the whips and bits indicate about how the animals
would like their farm to be?
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The taking of Animal Farm is meant to represent the February 1917 Revolution in Russia. Do some research into
this revolution and write a summary in only 100 words of what happened.
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTER 3. SET: MONDAY 30TH JANUARY. DUE IN: MONDAY 6TH FEBRUARY
Read Chapter 3 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
1. Why would Orwell have the pigs NOT help the other animals with the harvest?
2. Who do the animals admire most and why? What does that reveal about what this new society values?
3. What was that animal’s slogan?
4. Which two animals are not considered by the other animals to be good workers and why?
5. Which animal’s character doesn’t change much after the rebellion?
6. Why would Orwell keep that character’s personality the same? What does this reveal?
7. What three things happen on Sundays?
8. Who forms the animals into committees? Who has power in this society?
9. How literate are the animals? (Do they read and write well?) Why would literacy matter? How does it affect which
animals have power?
10. How are the animals better off after the rebellion? How are they worse off?
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTER 4. SET: MONDAY 6TH FEBRUARY. DUE IN: MONDAY 20TH FEBRUARY
Read Chapter 4 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
1. Write a summary of chapter 4 in 100 words
2. How did rebelliousness manifest itself on other farms? In other words, what do the animals on other farms do?
3. Jones and men from the other farms attempt to take over Animal Farm. Who warns the animals?
4. Who studies Julius Caesar’s campaign strategies and why?
5. Describe the Battle of the Cowshed. What military decorations were created and who received them? Why does
the giving of medals matter?
6. Who said, “The only good human is a dead one”? And why does that matter?
7. Who is discovered missing? Where was she found? Why does this matter?
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTER 5. SET: MONDAY 20TH FEBRUARY. DUE IN: MONDAY 27 TH FEBRUARY
Read Chapter 5 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
1. Break chapter 5 down into ten key events and then list them in the order that they happen. Next to each key event,
write down a key quotation to illustrate the event.
2. If you had to put the animals into a hierarchy (order of importance) what would it be?
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTER 6. SET: MONDAY 27 TH FEBRUARY. DUE IN: MONDAY 5 TH MARCH
Read Chapter 6 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
1. In August, Napoleon announced that animals could work on Sundays, but that this work is strictly voluntary. What
happens if the animals don’t “volunteer” to work on Sundays? Is this really voluntary work?
2. Why are the animals happy working like slaves over the windmill?
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What is the main problem with building the windmill and how do they solve it?
How does Boxer provide extra help?
Shortages of what cause a big problem?
Explain Napoleon’s new policy for getting items the farm needs? Does this make sense?
What is a broker?
Who sets the record straight that the animals have never passed a rule forbidding them to deal with humans?
Describe Mr. Whymper
What word does his name sound like? Why would Orwell give Mr. Whymper a name like that?
Who might Mr. Whymper represent in the allegory?
Where do the pigs move and why? Why does this matter? Why do pigs get up an hour later now? What might this
represent?
13. How does Squealer manipulate the language of the Fourth Commandment?
14. What happens to the windmill when it was half built? What do you believe happened to the windmill?
15. Who is being blamed for the problem?
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTER 7. SET: MONDAY 5 TH MARCH. DUE IN: MONDAY 12 TH MARCH
Read Chapter 7 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
1. Why do the pigs conceal the fact that they are running out of food?
2. What caused a minor rebellion on Animal Farm?
3. How was this minor rebellion stopped?
4. What was Snowball supposed to be doing at night?
5. How does Squealer finally convince Boxer that Snowball is a traitor?
6. Who are the first five animals that the dogs attack?
7. When the animals confess, are they confessing the truth? How do you know?
8. Why is “Beasts of England” forbidden?
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK - CHAPTERS 8 & 9. SET: MONDAY 12 TH MARCH. DUE IN: MONDAY 19 TH MARCH
Read Chapters 8 & 9 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
1. The windmill is blasted away, but the battle is called a victory for the animals. A great celebration is planned. Why?
2. What is a spontaneous demonstration? What is the purpose?
3. Napoleon becomes seriously ill. What actually happens to him?
4. What propaganda is spread about Snowballs’ wound in the Battle of the Cowshed?
5. What is significant about the reappearance of Moses?
6. Why does Napoleon make arrangements to send Boxer to a so-called hospital?
7. What does Benjamin do to help Boxer?
8. How do the pigs explain the knacker’s truck? Do the animals believe them? Why do people sometimes believe
things that seem so obviously false?
ANIMAL FARM HOMEWORK – CHAPTER 10. SET: MONDAY 19 TH MARCH. DUE IN: MONDAY 26 TH MARCH
1. Read Chapter 10 of Animal Farm and complete the following tasks:
2. Which animals remain?
3. Has anyone retired? Do you think anyone ever will? How does Orwell suggest that?
4. What has happened to the rewards the animals were promised?
5. What new song does Napoleon have Squealer teach the sheep? Why?
6. What does the wall of commandments now read? What does this reveal about their political philosophy,
animalism?
7. What is the similarity between Napoleon and Jones?
8. What is irony?
9. What is the final irony at the end of the novel?