Animal Farm chapters 1-2 summarize:
1) The animals on Manor Farm overthrow their human owner Mr. Jones and take control of the farm, renaming it Animal Farm.
2) Two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, emerge as leaders and instruct the animals in the Seven Commandments of Animalism. Napoleon begins consolidating power.
3) The pigs steal the farm's milk, leading the other animals to begin doubting the pigs' leadership and motives.
Animal Farm chapters 1-2 summarize:
1) The animals on Manor Farm overthrow their human owner Mr. Jones and take control of the farm, renaming it Animal Farm.
2) Two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, emerge as leaders and instruct the animals in the Seven Commandments of Animalism. Napoleon begins consolidating power.
3) The pigs steal the farm's milk, leading the other animals to begin doubting the pigs' leadership and motives.
Animal Farm chapters 1-2 summarize:
1) The animals on Manor Farm overthrow their human owner Mr. Jones and take control of the farm, renaming it Animal Farm.
2) Two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, emerge as leaders and instruct the animals in the Seven Commandments of Animalism. Napoleon begins consolidating power.
3) The pigs steal the farm's milk, leading the other animals to begin doubting the pigs' leadership and motives.
Animal Farm chapters 1-2 summarize:
1) The animals on Manor Farm overthrow their human owner Mr. Jones and take control of the farm, renaming it Animal Farm.
2) Two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, emerge as leaders and instruct the animals in the Seven Commandments of Animalism. Napoleon begins consolidating power.
3) The pigs steal the farm's milk, leading the other animals to begin doubting the pigs' leadership and motives.
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Animal Farm
chapters 1-2
L/O: AF3 (reading) deduce, infer or interpret information,
events or ideas from texts WALT and WILF What Are we Learning Today Working in groups to develop an understanding of character and events in the novel Interpreting characters and events in chapters 1-2 and making the connection to events elsewhere in the novel
What I’m Looking For
Grade C: understanding of the novel’s meaning and characters Grade B: developed interpretation of the novel’s meaning and characters Grade A: sustained and sophisticated interpretation of the novel’s meaning and characters Starter – which is the odd one out? Explore the significance of the following image What is the relevance of the order of the animals as they enter and settle themselves in the barn on p13?
What is the reader told
about the raven on p15 and p24? What does this suggest about the raven? What is the significance of the milk disappearing ?
DID YOU KNOW? Who do you
Orwell said that the disappearance of think stole the the milk was one of the crucial milk? moments in the book for the reader. What could milk represent?
Can you find the two quotes to go with this image?
(one is on p16 and the other is on p30) Impressions of characters in chapters 1-2
Character Give your opinion of the
character supported by a quote Napoleon
Snowball
Squealer
Boxer What assumptions are being made of the animals, or by the animals, in the following quotes? (grade B question)
‘…on a sort of raised platform, Major
was already ensconced on his bed of straw…’ (p13) ‘Almost overnight we could become rich and free.’ (p17)
‘…having once accepted the
pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told…’ (p25)
‘…it was theirs – everything that they
could see was theirs!’ (p27) Plenary – extend yourself: answer in detail – elaborate – and support your opinions (grade A question)
In chapters 1 and 2, the reader is led to believe that the
animals will become ‘rich and free’. Using your knowledge of the novel so far, explore the strengths and weaknesses of Major’s speech.
Major begins his speech by saying the animals’ lives are
‘miserable, laborious and short’. However, the reader knows… Spellings and homework for week 1 1. Begged Hand in your homework 2. Dragged (this is on the VLE English documents 3. Dropped Miss Fletcher writing 4. Stopped and reading intervention 5. Hummed homework) 6. Blasted 7. Counted 8. Disgusted 9. Helped 10. tricked