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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Farm: Themes (For the Most Part) Quiz

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Farm: Symbols Quiz

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
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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Interactive
Curated OER

Animal Farm: Ee-eye-ee-eye Oh! Quiz

For Students 8th - 12th
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.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Farm Study Questions and Essay Topics

For Students 7th - 10th
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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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Animals vs. Napoleon

For Students 10th - 11th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Farm - The Rest of the Story

For Teachers 7th - 10th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
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....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension: 1984

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
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.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

1984 Activity Sheet and Progress Test

For Students 9th - 12th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Farm: The Complete Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bring Your Character in a Bag - Animal Farm (Middle, Literature)

For Teachers 9th
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.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Farm Chapter One Summary

For Students 8th - 12th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Farm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: George Orwell's Essay on Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Primary
Other

Project Gutenberg Australia: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Brown University

George Orwell: Exhibition From the D. J. Leab Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting exhibit follows Eric Blair's career as George Orwell, and includes images of Orwell works and links to library catalog records.
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eBook
Planet eBooks

Planet E Book: 1984 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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eBook
Planet eBooks

Planet E Book: Down and Out in Paris and London [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Other

Literature Network: George Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry:postcolonialism:george Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Nineteen Eighty Four

For Students 9th - 10th
"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.
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Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
"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...
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Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Down and Out in Paris in London

For Students 9th - 10th
"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.
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Website
British Library

British Library: 20th Century People: George Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
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.