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