ANIMAL FARM

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

YEAR 8 ACE

A PATHFINDER

About GEORGE ORWELL    About "Animal Farm"   About the Russian Revolution and Communism   TEACHER RESOURCES

ABOUT GEORGE ORWELL

http://www.george-orwell.org/l_biography.html

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ : biographical information

http://www.talkingto.co.uk/ttgo/index.asp : biographical information

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ABOUT "ANIMAL FARM"

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/
Notes from students at Harvard University. An excellent starting point to study plot, characterization, themes and symbols.

http://www.novelguide.com/animalfarm/index.html
This is a useful site for analysis of the plot, characters, symbols and politics of the novel

http://netcharles.com/orwell/articles/col-afquotes.htm
This site lists important quotes from each chapter of the novel

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-12.html
A useful site from CliffsNotes Literature Study Guides with summaries, character studies, sample essay questions.

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/animalfarm/
Summaries, analysis, characters, a biography of Orwell and a selection of essays about the book can be found here.

http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/summaries/animf.html
This site provides plot summaries, character descriptions and symbols

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
The Wikipedia has this extensive article on the book and its issues

A response to "Animal Farm"   
Writer Margaret Atwood describes how she read the book at 14, and the impact it had on her

http://www.turnerlearning.com/tntlearning/animalfarm/afhistory.html:valuable historical background information about George Orwell and the times in which he lived

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        ABOUT THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND COMMUNISM          

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917
The Wikipedia has a clear outline of the events of the Revolution

Communism
A collection of definitions from various webpages

http://www.thedictatorship.com/
Examples of modern dictators (tyrants, despots, absolute rulers) are available here

 

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TEACHER RESOURCES

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~lgardner/animalfarm.html
 A 2002 Webquest from a 12 grade teacher in the US, focusing on the ideas behind the novel - the Russian Revolution, perfect societies, the ideas that generated political action in the past. Features group work

http://www.geocities.com/fhsgalloway/animalfarm.htm
This webquest concentrates on the Russian Revolution rather than the book, but it has a couple of good rubrics in the evaluation section

http://www.coe.unt.edu/TeacherTools/webquests/animal_farm/Animal%20Farm.htm
A webquest focusing on using propaganda to create a TV commercial for one of the characters in the novel

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=613
Useful material from the US "Edsitement ... The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom."

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