Animal Farm Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, History Info, Test

This complete Animal Farm unit is designed to help you get to the heart of Animal Farm while making your efforts mean something. With your guidance, students will dig deep into Animal Farm history, themes, and allegory in order to better apply Orwell’s message to their own lives right here, right now. 

Are you ready to help students relate to this allegory in a meaningful way without sacrificing your evenings and weekends to do so? Let's dig in!

BEFORE READING:

To help you set the tone and spark interest in Animal Farm, you will get: 

⭐ Animal Farm Introduction Stations

⭐ Animal Farm Posters

⭐ Utopia One Pager Template 

DURING READING: 

To help you keep students engaged throughout Animal Farm you will get: 

Animal Farm Chapter 1 Activities:

⭐ Old Major and the Communist Manifesto Close Reading Comparison

⭐ Finding Common Ground with Political Issues

Animal Farm Chapter 2 Activities:

⭐ Anthems from Around the World Analysis

Animal Farm Chapter 3 Activities:

⭐ Animal Farm Job Simulation Discussion

⭐ Propaganda Analysis

Animal Farm Chapter 4 Activities:

⭐ Allegory and Prediction

Animal Farm Chapter 5 Activities:

⭐ Herd Mentality Informational Text

⭐ Political Cartoon Analysis

Animal Farm Chapter 6 Activities:

⭐ Corruption of Power Logical Fallacies

Animal Farm Chapter 7 Activities:

⭐Misinformation and Censorship Analysis

Animal Farm Chapter 8 Activities:

⭐ Windmill Symbolism Text Set

Animal Farm Chapter 9 Activities:

⭐ The Social Divide Allegorical Comparison

Animal Farm Chapter 10 Activities:

⭐ Socratic Seminar 

⭐ Political Growth Mindset

AFTER READING: 

To help you end Animal Farm on a meaningful note, you will get: 

⭐ Connection Choices: Read, Watch, or Listen

⭐ Animal Farm Essay Prompts

⭐Animal Farm 50 question multiple choice test

Rest assured. This unit also includes:

✅ Detailed Pacing Guide

✅ Detailed Answer Keys

✅ Standard Alignment

✅ Digital or print use

✅ Ability to edit to fit your needs!

Please note, this unit was updated in 2023. Here is what ELA teachers like you are saying about the update:

This resource is absolutely phenomenal!!! This resource is what I aspire to be as a teacher when I teach my novels... It also has such fantastic ideas for each chapter and it has inspired me to create templates like this for all of my novels! Thank you for being such an inspiration and for pouring your heart and soul into this resource. I am so grateful I purchased this and have the ability to push my students critical thinking to a whole new level!!

By far the best Animal Farm resource available - engaging and challenging assignments. Thank you for all your hard work!

My students LOVE these activities. This plan was really well thought out. IT comes with the entire unit and reading plan, activities, hooks, etc. This bundle does a great job at explaining the parallels in the book, while also being very engaging. There are so many mediums used in this bundle: movement, videos, drawing, acting, etc.

In all, this Animal Farm unit will help you add engagement, movement, and rigor to your Animal Farm novel study. Download the preview for a closer look!