1. Animal Farm chapters 1-2
L/O: AF3 (reading) deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts

2. WALT and WILF What Are we Learning Today What I’m Looking For
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

3. Starter – which is the odd one out?

4. Explore the significance of the following image

5. 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?

6. What is the significance of the milk disappearing ?
Who do you think stole the milk?
What could milk represent?
DID YOU KNOW?
Orwell said that the disappearance of the milk was one of the crucial moments in the book for the reader.
Can you find the two quotes to go with this image?
(one is on p16 and the other is on p30)

7. Impressions of characters in chapters 1-2
Give your opinion of the character supported by a quote
Napoleon
Snowball
Squealer
Boxer

8. 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)

9. 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…

10. Spellings and homework for week 1
Begged
Dragged
Dropped
Stopped
Hummed
Blasted
Counted
Disgusted
Helped
tricked
Hand in your homework (this is on the VLE English documents Miss Fletcher writing and reading intervention homework)