Y7: Finishing 'Animal Farm' (Weeks 1-3)

Hello Year 7,

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The first thing we'd like you to do is to finish your work on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

 

Here are some tasks for the next three weeks to get you to the end of this unit before we move on:

1) Read to the end of the book (you'll find a copy of the text below). 

I think most of you have read Chapter 7 (Napoleon's Reign of Terror). 7N might need to pick up from Chapter 5 or 6. One of Miss Stamp's classes has read Chapter 8 (The Battle of the Windmill). 

My advice is to do most of the reading in Week 1 (the first week after Easter, beginning April 20th), finish the reading in Week 2 and spend the rest of Week 2 and then Week 3 doing the tasks and looking at the optional stuff below.

Use the text below or the chapter summaries on this document to find where you are up to. There are only 10 chapters in the book - so you're nearly there.

You can listen along as you read with this YouTube audiobook (see the comments for links to the start of each chapter) or this playlist on Spotify. 

As you finish each chapter, you could write a chapter summary (using Cornell notes?) or have a go at the Sparknotes quick chapter quizzes: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Here's the pdf version of the text (which you can read here or download):

 

When you've finished all the reading... 

2) Have a go at this quiz on Animal Farm.

3) Watch the classic animated film. It lasts for 1 hour and 10 minutes (for some reason, it restarts again in the second half of this Youtube video).

4) Write a book review on Google Forms.

Extra (optional) stuff to consider:

• Use this teacher's guide to find more chapter-by-chapter activites, discussion topics, essay questions and creative opportunities:

• Try this full text quiz at Sparknotes
• Read about the themes of the book at BBC Bitesize
• Watch the 'School of Life' video about George Orwell 
• Find out more about George Orwell at the British Library
• Challenging: read John Sutherland's Introduction to Animal Farm 
• Revise the Allusions for Y7 on Quizlet.
• Revise the Word Roots for Y7 on Quizlet 
• Revise Essential Poetic Terms on Quizlet 
• Revise the Greek Gods and Goddesses on Quizlet 
• Discover general Spelling and Vocab lists 

•  Still looking for more? Why not have a go at the OLYMPUS CHALLENGE?

We'll update this blog in a few weeks to get you started on Shakespeare.

Thanks,

THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT