Curated OER
Animal Farm: Themes (For the Most Part) Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions based on the themes of Animal Farm. Students may submit their answers to be scored on this timed quiz.
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Animal Farm: Symbols Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 5 multiple choice questions based on symbols in Animal Farm. Students may submit their answers to be scored on this timed quiz.
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Animal Farm: Ee-eye-ee-eye Oh! Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions based on Animal Farm. Students may submit their answers to be scored on this timed quiz.
Curated OER
Animal Farm Study Questions and Essay Topics
In this literature instructional activity, students think critically about characterization, perspective, rhetoric, and the message of the novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell. Students also discuss why Orwell chose a fable as political...
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The Animals vs. Napoleon
In this literature analysis worksheet, students read Animal Farm and complete a trial activity project based on the characters of the animals vs. Napoleon.
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Animal Farm - The Rest of the Story
Students participate in a reader's theater using farm animals in the novella Animal Farm. In this Animal Farm lesson plan, students evaluate interpretations using the text, personal experience, and historical events.
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George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"
Students read George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" as an analysis for the historical context. In this historical analysis lesson plan, students analyze the main points in the essay to identify its cultural and historical context....
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension: 1984
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students answer questions based on chapters 1-12 of '1984'. Question type varies from matching, true / false, fill in the blank and multiple choice.
Curated OER
1984 Activity Sheet and Progress Test
In this 1984 activity sheet and progress test activity, high schoolers respond to a total of 27 multiple choice, matching and fill in the blank questions pertaining to 1984 by George Orwell in order to better understand the novel.
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Animal Farm: The Complete Project
Students choose chapters from "Animal Farm" to complete a project on. They make connections between the characters and gather any outside information needed. They present their information to the class.
Curated OER
Bring Your Character in a Bag - Animal Farm (Middle, Literature)
Ninth graders interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm and represent that character in original symbolic form and present orally to the class.
Curated OER
Animal Farm Chapter One Summary
For this Animal Farm chapter one worksheet, students state the main idea of the chapter. The worksheet asks that the student summary includes title, author, topic, main idea, and quotations. In addition, students paraphrase the chapter...
Curated OER
Animal Farm
Students work together in small groups to share their knowledge about apartheid in South Africa. They research the role of women in both traditional and contemporary African societies. They focus on such topics as employment, family, and...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: George Orwell's Essay on Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"
This is a lesson plan for George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting An Elephant." It provides five detailed activities for use with the essay. Other links to parts of the lesson plan including an introduction, guiding...
Other
Project Gutenberg Australia: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
This is the downloadable text for the essay "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, which describes the experience of the narrator (possibly Orwell himself) who shot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.
Brown University
George Orwell: Exhibition From the D. J. Leab Collection
This interesting exhibit follows Eric Blair's career as George Orwell, and includes images of Orwell works and links to library catalog records.
Planet eBooks
Planet E Book: 1984 [Pdf]
The complete text of "1984" by George Orwell is available here in PDF format. 1984, which was first released in 1949, is 393 pages pages long.
Planet eBooks
Planet E Book: Down and Out in Paris and London [Pdf]
The complete text of "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell is available here in PDF format. Down and Out in Paris and London, which was first released in 1933, is 254 pages pages long.
Other
Literature Network: George Orwell
This is a biography of George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, (1903-1950) and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell is quoted throughout the biography which helps to understand his political reasoning in the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry:postcolonialism:george Orwell
This lesson from 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on George Orwell and his autobiographical account of "Shooting an Elephant." It features links to the text of "Shooting an Elephant," a study guide/lesson plan, questions concerning...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Works: Nineteen Eighty Four
"Nineteen-Eighty-Four" is a novel published by George Orwell in 1949. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Works: Animal Farm
"Animal Farm" (1945) is a novella by George Orwell about the development of Russian communism under Joseph Stalin delivered in allegorical form. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Works: Down and Out in Paris in London
"Down and Out in Paris in London" was the first book published by Eric Arthur Blair under the pseudonym George Orwell. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century People: George Orwell
Read a summary of George Orwell's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.