Includes: - Biographies and summaries on George Orwell, the novel, key figures of the Russian Revolution: Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Valdimir Lenin, Leon Trostky (adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica) - Informational handouts on political terminology and ideas in the text, propaganda and the rules of persuasive language, themes and ideas throughout the text, guiding questions - In-class activities on social structures, "animalism", symbols in the text- List of comprehensive reading questions per