Recreating a section of Animal Farm in first person from an animal’s perspective

‘I’m going to make your children my personal responsibility,’ Napoleon spoke to me gently, however, what he was speaking about was not a gentle matter. I knew there was no argument I could use, and after all, they would be educated properly. ‘They will be kept in the loft,’ Napoleon went into detail, I must’ve had a confused face at the time. It was strange; for a minute I felt as if Napoleon was becoming one of them. I reminded myself ‘Four legs good, two legs bad, Napoleon does have four legs

Snowball’s 7 Commandments (of the classroom):

1. All students are friends.

2. All teachers are enemies.

3. No student shall undertake the roles of a teacher.

4. Every effort shall be made to help a fellow student.

5. No student shall get any other a detention.

6. No student shall get their own desk.

7. All students are equal.

Read and find 10 new words:

Abhorrence – Detestation

Cosmogony – Theory on the origin of the universe

Dyspepsia – Indigestion

Eclogue – Short pastoral poem

Effeminate – Unmanly

Elegy – Sorrowful song/poem

Emaciate – Make thin/feeble

Haggard – Looking exhausted

Nephritis – Inflammation of the kidneys

Oriental – Of the east

15 Facts about Orwell

Orwell’s life:

– Born Eric Arthur Blair

– Born 25th June 1903

– Died 21st January 1950

– Born in India

– Was a teacher

Animal Farm:

– Originally called Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

– Mr Jones was supposed to resemble Stalin

– Received a fair amount of harsh criticism

– Was on a ‘Forbidden list’ of books until the end of communism

– Written during 1943 and 1944

Other:

– Best known for dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

– He wrote literary criticism

– Some of his work was branded ‘Self deluding’

– Wrote 1984 whilst dying from Tuberculosis

– Went to Eton