Animal Farm Reading Schedule

A. Objective:

  • The student will use effective strategies before, during, and after reading, viewing, and listening to self-selected and assigned materials.
  • The student will construct, examine, and extend meaning of traditional and contemporary works recognized as having significant literary merit.

B. Overview: Reading texts on your own is something that you will be expected to do in upper level classes as well as in college. For this novel, you will be monitoring your own understanding using a dialectal journal style. You will be required to use the reading strategies we have discussed in order to make inferences and draw conclusions. You will be quizzed daily. Below, you will find the Reading Schedule and the assignments for each chapter.

C. Schedule:Read the following by the assigned due date.

Session 1Chapter 1 & 2Monday, April 28

Session 2Chapter 3Thursday, May 1

Session 3Chapters 4 & 5Monday, May 5

Session 4Chapter 6, 7, & 8Thursday, May 8

Session 5Chapter 9 & 10Monday, May 12

D. Directions for Reading:For each night of reading, you will complete the following items.

Animal Farm Reading - Chapter 1 & 2: Answer the following questions for discussion in class.

  1. Make a list of characters. Who do you think will be the most important characters? Why?
  2. What is the importance of Major's dream? Why do you think the song is significant?
  3. Describe Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer. Why are they important?
  4. How and why does the revolution happen? What do the animals do after they take over the farm?

Animal Farm Reading- Chapter 3: Answer the following questions for discussion in class.

  1. Why is the animals' harvest better than previous harvests with the humans?
  2. Describe the life of the animals on Animal Farm. What do they do? How do they feel?
  3. What jobs does each of the animals have?

Animal Farm Reading – Chapter 4 & 5 Answer the following questions for discussion in class.

  1. What do the other humans think about Animal Farm? What rumors do they spread about it?
  2. Why does Mollie leave Animal Farm?
  3. Summarize the different views and plans of Snowball and Napoleon.
  4. What kinds of propaganda can you see in these chapters?

Animal Farm Reading - Chapter 6, 7 & 8: Answer the following questions for discussion in class.

  1. What reasons do the pigs give for beginning trade with other farms? Do you think this will be a good idea?
  2. What is the significance of the pigs moving into the farmhouse? What reasons do the pigs tell the other animals? Why do you think they really wanted to live there?
  3. Why does Napoleon begin to blame every bad thing on Snowball? What effect does this have on the other animals?
  4. Why do you think some of the animals confess to crimes? Do you believe they committed these crimes? What effect do the executions have on the other animals?
  5. What reasons does Squealer give for forbidding Beasts of England? Why do you think Beasts of England is really forbidden?
  6. Describe the new ways Napoleon sets himself apart from the other animals. What does this remind you of?
  7. How do the pigs feel about the Battle of the Windmill? How do the other animals feel?

Animal Farm Reading – Chapter 9 & 10: Answer the following questions for discussion in class.

  1. What do you think is the significance of the last "human behavior" commandment being changed?
  2. Why does Napoleon begin holding many celebrations and Spontaneous Demonstrations?
  3. Why does Napoleon send Boxer to the knacker instead of the hospital?
  4. What does it mean that the pigs have now learned to walk on two legs?
  5. What is the new commandment? What does it mean?