Revision Guide for Literature Animal Farm The exam

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Revision Guide for Literature Animal Farm • The exam question will always ask you

Revision Guide for Literature Animal Farm • The exam question will always ask you to focus on an extract and to include your whole text knowledge • How can I revise? • Use this booklet to help you and use the information in your exercise book on the text. • Use your KO sheet and make sure you are 100% happy with the approaches to these tasks. • Make sure you have actively learnt quotes from the text and understand how to embed context. Contents – Animal Farm • KOs • Place Mats to help with planning tasks • Each poem with specific revision tasks & questions to help you • Some practice essay questions to use with the planning mat or to attempt as revision

Revision Guide for the Romeo and Juliet. Literature Analysis Tips & Exercises • What

Revision Guide for the Romeo and Juliet. Literature Analysis Tips & Exercises • What you should/could cover in your analysis – RED Minimum, ORANGE Most, GREEN Some (You know which you can aim to include) Not all of the steps need to be completed for each quote you select! • Link to the question (RED) and say why you think it links • Link to context • Link to the terminology (Lang/Structure – evaluating choice) (ORANGE) • Short Quote(s) (RED) • Explain meaning and effect – both obvious and hidden (explicit and implicit) (RED) • Zoom in on words/explore connotations and effect (ORANGE) • Suggest what other readers might think/feel (offering an alternative opinion) (GREEN) • Link to the writer’s intentions (step out from the close analysis to give an overview of meaning) (GREEN) • Explore a linking quote/supporting idea (GREEN) Always give an understanding of what is actually happening in the text at the point you are talking about. Make sure that you know what happens when and who is involved. Knowing this is as important as remembering lots of quotes. Always include context in your essay. Avoid seeing context as something you add last. It needs to be embedded into the learning. Use the exam requirements section of the KO to help you think about how to write an essay.

ANIMAL FARM KO - Y 11 AQA Vocabulary Definition Revolution Forcible overthrow of a

ANIMAL FARM KO - Y 11 AQA Vocabulary Definition Revolution Forcible overthrow of a government or social order Animalism System designed by Old Major for a happy life free of human interference Commandments Seven rules by which the animals will live Unalterable Cannot be changed or adapted Equality Being equal Untrustworthy Not being able to trust someone, deceitful Capitalism an economic & political system where a country's trade & industry are controlled privately for profit, rather than by the state. Socialism An economic & political system where trade & industry are controlled centrally for the good of all Patriotic Being devoted to your country Corruption Dishonesty or fraudulent behaviour by rulers Republic A state where power is held by the people & their elected officials (America is a republic) (Britain is a Monarchy) Exploitation Treating someone unfairly to benefit from their work Anti – totalitarian Non-tolerance of people who have different opinions & a system of dictatorship Terminology Definition Symbolism use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities Imagery visually descriptive language Motif a recurring set of words/phrases or imagery for effect Allegory extended metaphor in which a symbolic story is told Omniscient third person narrative All knowing narrator who is not involved in the action but sees it all happening SKILLS Analysis Points: Link to the question Link to the terminology (Lang/Structure – evaluating choice) Short Quote(s) Explain meaning and effect – both obvious and hidden (explicit and implicit) Zoom in on words/explore connotations and effect Suggest what other readers might think/feel (offering an alternative opinion) Link to the writer’s intentions (step out from the close analysis to give an overview of meaning) Explore a linking quote/supporting idea EXAM REQUIREMENTS ESSAY : Intro – link to the question with overview of meaning. Explain which events in the text you will focus on. Idea 1 - choose a moment from the text to explore with quotes & context Idea 2 - choose a 2 nd moment from the text to explore with quotes & context - Idea 3 - choose a moment from the text to explore with quotes & context - Idea 4 – choose a moment to explore with quotes and context Conclude – Short summary of points INCLUDE CONTEXT Context Orwell was a Socialist. He despised the cruelties in the Soviet Union model of socialism. The novel is an anti-totalitarian novel. Each character represents different historical figures. Pig represent educated Russians who took power. Moses exploitation of religion in communism. The Sheep – Russian Masses. Mr Frederick – Hitler Mr Pilkington – Capitalist govt of Britain & The USA. The Hens – collective farmers ordered by Stalin to surrender their livelihoods. Mr Jones the Tzar Russian history And Stalin’s rise to power CHAPTER Guide to events CH 1 The animals hold a meeting to discuss overthrowing the humans. They decide on rules if they are successful. CH 2 The animals run the men off the farm & the Jones’ and rename it Animal Farm, destroying signs of slavery CH 3 The animals work hard to collect the harvest, a committee is established & the pigs take more than their share of the rations. CH 4 Jones tries to retake the farm. News of it has spread & neighbouring farmers are worried. The animals win The Battle of the Cowshed. CH 5 Mollie leaves the farm. Napoleon takes over all the decisions. CH 6 The pigs move into the farmhouse, they trade and the animals work hard to farm and build the windmill, overcoming setbacks. A storm destroys the windmill. CH 7 Napolean starves the hens when they refuse to lay more eggs, he convinces them off a different version of The Battle of the Cowshed. CH 8 The pigs re-read the commandments, change them and get drunk. Frederick buys timber with forged money & blows up the windmill. CH 9 Th piglets go to school, the farm becomes a republic with Napoleon as the President, Boxer looks forward to retiring, his strength fails and he is sent to the slaughterer. Most animals don’t realise & whiskey arrives from the money confusing them. CH 10 Time passes, animals die, the conditions are poor for most and the pigs act like humans. The other animals can’t tell the animals from the humans.

Character Quotes & Technique Clover Ch 1. ‘Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching

Character Quotes & Technique Clover Ch 1. ‘Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life. ’, Ch 2. ‘these two (Clover and Boxer) had great difficulty in thinking anything for themselves, . ’ ‘Clover learnt the whole alphabet, but could not put words together. ’ ‘Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself. ’‘Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. …not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves year ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. ’ (ch 7) ‘Such were thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. ’(ch 7) ‘They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, especially from Clover. ’ Mollie Benjamin Boxer Ch 1. ‘Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare’ ‘hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with. ’ Ch 2. ‘The stupidest questions of all were asked by Mollie, the white mare. ’ ‘Shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane? ’ Ch 3. ‘Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the morning. ’ ‘Mollie refused to learn any but the six letters which spelt her own name. ’ Ch 4. ‘She was found hiding in her stall’ Ch 5. ‘run away from work and go to the drinking pool…stand gazing foolishly at her own reflection. ’ Ch 1. ‘oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, … usually to make some cynical remark. ’ Ch 3. ‘Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion. ’ ‘When asked whether he was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only “Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey. ”’ “Benjamin was the only animal who did not side with either faction (Ch 5) ‘Only old Benjamin refused to grow enthusiastic about the windmill. ’ (Ch 6) Ch 1. ‘Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. ’ “universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work. ’ Ch 3. ‘Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them through. Boxer was the admiration of everybody. ’ ‘His answer to every setback, was “I will work harder. ”’ ‘Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. ’ Ch 4 ‘But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion. ’ “He is dead”, said Boxer sorrowfully. “Ch 6. ‘His two slogans, “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right”, seemed to him sufficient answer to all problems. ’ ‘I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves. ’ (ch 7) ‘What victory? ’ said Boxer. His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hide. ’ (ch 8) Moses 'Mrs. Jones looked out of the bedroom window, saw what was happening, hurriedly flung a few possessions into a carpet bag… Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after her, croaking loudly. ’ , ‘He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, ’, ‘The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work’, ‘Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years. ’ ‘Many of the animals believed him. Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else? ’ ‘They [the pigs] all declared contemptuously that his stories …were lies, ’ The three pigs Napoleon “Never mind the milk, comrades”, “He lifted his leg, urinated over the plans and walked out without uttering a word”, “Napoleon announced that the windmill would be built after all”, “There were piles of corpses lying at Napoleon’s feet” Squealer: “The animals were not sure what the word meant, but Squealer spoke persuasively”, “Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back? ” “Many of us actually dislike milk and apples” Snowball “At the meetings, Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches”, "Comrade, " said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. ”, “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons? “, "Now, comrades, " cried Snowball, throwing down the paint-brush, "to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do. “ [this quotation refers to his being chased from the farm] “…slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more. ” The Sheep When they had once got it by heart, the sheep developed a great liking for this maxim, … start bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad!“, It went on for five minutes without stopping. … the chance to utter any protest had passed. ’ Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat’, ‘better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap’, ‘Finding herself unable to read more than individual letters, she fetched Muriel’. , "It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets, "' she announced finally. ’ Mr Frederick “terrible stories were leaking out from Pinchfield’, ‘He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace, and he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with splinters of razor-blade tied to their spurs. ’ ‘The animals' blood boiled with rage’ Mr Pilkington ‘These two [Frederick and Pilkington] disliked each other so much that it was difficult for them to come to any agreement’. ‘But at the moment the four pigeons who had been sent there [Pilkington’s farm] the day before returned bearing a scrap of paper from Pilkington. On it were penciled the words ‘serves you right’. Jessie and Bluebell ‘a terrible baying sound outside, ’ ‘escape their snapping jaws. ’, ‘the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. ’ The Hens And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men? ’, ‘Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days’. , ‘He [Snowball] formed the Egg Production Committee for the hens. ’, ‘The hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. ’ Minimus ‘Animal Farm, Never through me shalt thou come to harm

Transform: 'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others’ Consider:

Transform: 'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others’ Consider: The structure of text. Describe the story of the animal farm as a poem. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine, ' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. When is utopia achieved (if ever)? What happens at the start, the middle and end of the text? What is Orwell showing through the circular narrative? Criticise: Communism. Communists believe that equality can be gained through sharing property equally in society. How does Orwell attack this ideal? Prioritise: Themes – What are themes in the play and how are they shown throughout the text?

Transform: Power is a social construct – explore the elements of power that the

Transform: Power is a social construct – explore the elements of power that the pigs manipulate throughout the text. Criticise: The Pigs. How might a Orwellian audience have reacted to the behaviour of the pigs? How might a contemporary audience now feel? Consider: Extract from Chapter 3 to start with – use your knowledge of the whole text for all tasks The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership. Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horserake (no bits or reins were needed in these days, of course) and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out "Gee up, comrade!" or "Whoa back, comrade!" as the case might be. And every animal down to the humblest worked at turning the hay and gathering it. Place Power Law People What could you say about these elements in relation to the allegorical tale – Animal Farm? Prioritise: Vocabulary choices by and for the Pigs. What language do they use? What language does the omniscient narrator use? What language do the other animals use?

Transform: Summarise the advice Boxer gives to himself and the impact that this has

Transform: Summarise the advice Boxer gives to himself and the impact that this has on the other animals. Criticise: “Boxer is too good, too kind and too forgiving of the pigs” Challenge this statement Chapter 3 extract Boxer was the admiration of everybody. He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders. From morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest. He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labour at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day's work began. His answer to every problem, every setback, was "I will work harder!"--which he had adopted as his personal motto. Consider: What does Benjamin imply about Boxer? What can we learn from his silence throughout the novella? What kind of impression do we get of him? Prioritise: Choose your top five quotes about Boxer and Benjamin and explode them with: Meaning/Effect Exploration of the context that links & why Zooming in on a word in the quote Use triplets to develop your ideas Focus on context Exploration of the connotations

Transform: Create a bullet point list to show the dogs help to take over

Transform: Create a bullet point list to show the dogs help to take over the farm from collective ownership to a dictatorship. Chapter 5 At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. Snowball was racing across the long pasture that led to the road. He was running as only a pig can run, but the Criticise: “Napoleon’s intent is dogs were close on his heels. Suddenly he slipped and it seemed certain that they clear and his continual had him. Then he was up again, running manipulating behaviour is faster than ever, then the dogs were foreshadowed by Orwell” gaining on him again. One of them all but closed his jaws on Snowball's tail, but Challenge this statement Snowball whisked it free just in time. Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more. Consider: Power How is power manipulated through the dogs and what do they represent? How do the sheep help maintain this power? Prioritise: Napoleon (use your knowledge organiser to help you): Meaning/Effect Exploration of the context that links & why Zooming in on a word in the quote Use triplets to develop your ideas Focus on context Exploration of the connotations

Transform: Find examples of vocabulary that show Orwell is making a point about the

Transform: Find examples of vocabulary that show Orwell is making a point about the dictatorial nature of the farm now and the unfairness on the animals. Chapter 6 Criticise: The simile worked like slaves is deliberately placed at the start of Chapter 6 Consider: The way Orwell describes the humans at this point in the novella and how this keeps the animals in check. What do the humans represent now? Challenge this statement All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings. Prioritise: The context of the novella – what is Orwell mimicking and criticising throughout the whole novella?

Transform: Write a poem to show the examples of deceit that have become evident

Transform: Write a poem to show the examples of deceit that have become evident throughout the novella. Criticise: The stupidity of the animals who represent the proletariat – they are as much to blame for the situation as Napoleon "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause. “ Give your opinions and thoughts with evidence on this idea Chapter 8 extract Consider: What were the original seven A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the commandments and how do they have biblical significance. Also, how animals remembered–or thought they are they being broken throughout remembered–that the Sixth the novella? Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill any other animal. " And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause. " Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball. Prioritise: Deception Find examples that the animals are aware that they are being deceived but cannot quite grasp this 100% Explain which animal is the most aware and why?

Transform: Create a summary of the story of animal farm and its allegorical significance

Transform: Create a summary of the story of animal farm and its allegorical significance reflecting all the events and the circular nature of events. Criticise: Napoleon and the pigs greed. Explore how the pigs greed has made them exactly the same as the humans they usurped in Chapter 10 and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him. He carried a whip in his trotter. There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard. It was as though the world had turned upsidedown. Then there came a moment when the first shock had worn off and when, in spite of everything–in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticising, no matter what happened–they might have uttered some word of protest. But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of– "Four legs good, two legs better!" Consider: What were Orwell’s intentions? What is he warning society about? How do the warnings fit with his own disillusionment with communism? Prioritise: What point in the novella is it evident that there is no going back for the animals and that they will be stuck in another unfair regime?