Lesson 3 Group Animal Stories

Creating an
animal story –
group work
L/O: working as a group to formulate

imaginative ideas
WALT and WILF
What Are we Learning Today
 Working in groups to create imaginative ideas for characters
and events in an animal story
 Relating your own ideas to events and characters from the
novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell
What I’m Looking For

 Grade C: understanding of the novel’s characters and
events
 Grade B: engagement with the novel’s characters and
events
 Grade A: sustained and sophisticated engagement with the
novel’s characters and events
Starter – group work – 10 minutes
As a group, choose one of the front covers, place it in
the centre of your paper and brainstorm some ideas
for an animal story set on a farm. Think of:
characters
plot
events
setting
theme (a central idea or topic that
continues through the text: power, greed etc)
events
plot setting
theme
characters
Group 1 – story
(ideas from chapter 1) 30 minutes
An old animal on your Allocate the following jobs to

farm calls a meeting to talk people in your group:
about the difficulties of living
with man and proposes a
rebellion against man so that  Setting: where is the meeting
animals can be free… held on the farm – design/draw
the setting
 Characters: who is present at

the meeting and how do they
react to the animal’s proposal of
a rebellion? – draw the other
characters and attach a brief
description
 Design a song that describes

the life of an animal without man
and how animals will rule over
man
Group 2 – story
(ideas from chapter 2) 30 minutes
The animals on your Allocate the following jobs to

farm drive away the human farm people in your group:
owner and decide to create their
own rules…
 Setting: where is the meeting
held to decide the new rules –
design/draw the setting
 Characters: develop two

characters who take charge of
the other animals – one should
be innovative and the other a
tyrant – draw the characters and
attach a brief description of their
roles as leaders
 Design a list of seven

commandments that the other
animals must follow and design
a simple maxim (motto) such as:
four legs good, two legs bad
Group 3 – story
(ideas from chapters 4 and 5) 30 minutes
One of the animals in Allocate the following jobs to

charge on your farm is people in your group:
extremely brave and leads the
others into battle against the
humans.  Setting: where will the windmill
be built and what will it look like
However, the other – design/draw the setting and
leader, a tyrant who feels windmill and label the windmill
intimidated by him, manages to with its different functions
get the other animals to attack
him and drive him away from
the farm. He then steals his idea  Characters: who is present at
to build a windmill that will the battle and what do they do to
provide electricity, heat and hot the humans? – draw the
water. characters present at the battle
and attach a description of their
role in the battle
 Describe the thoughts behind

attacking the other leader and
design a set of commandments
that would be written by your
tyrannical leader once he has
complete control of the farm
Group 4 – story
(ideas from chapters 6, 7 and 10) 30 minutes
Some of the animals Allocate the following jobs to

on your farm decide to move people in your group:
into the farmhouse. The rest
 Setting: what does the farmhouse
of the animals are left look like inside now that the animals
outside and are told, and live in it? – design/draw the
believe, that this is a good different rooms of the farmhouse
thing. and label them with their different
functions
Due to being
overworked and always  Characters: what animals are left
hungry, some of the animals outside and why have they been left
start to rebel and are killed outside? – draw all the characters
by order of the tyrannical left outside and design your own
ideas of what their living quarters
leader on your farm. would look like
Eventually, the
animals living in the  Design a simple slogan, like ‘four
farmhouse become so legs good, two legs better’ and one
human that all the animals commandment, like ‘all animals are
equal but some animals are more
left outside can’t tell the equal than others’ and place them
difference. beneath your interpretation of the
human-like animals
Plenary – class feedback
(you have 5 minutes to formulate an answer)
 Group 1: what is the purpose of the rebellion against
man?
 Group 2: why would the commandments be important

to the animals?
 Group 3: what are the reasons behind the tyrannical

leader taking complete control and building the
windmill?
 Group 4: what is the significance of some animals

being left outside to work?

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Creating an

L/O: working as a group to formulate

What I’m Looking For

An old animal on your Allocate the following jobs to

 Characters: who is present at

 Design a song that describes

The animals on your Allocate the following jobs to

 Characters: develop two

 Design a list of seven

One of the animals in Allocate the following jobs to

 Describe the thoughts behind

Some of the animals Allocate the following jobs to

 Group 2: why would the commandments be important

 Group 3: what are the reasons behind the tyrannical

 Group 4: what is the significance of some animals

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