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Animal Farm Knowledge Organiser Week 1 – Characters Week 1 – Characters Week 2 – Literary devices Week 3 – Context Napoleon - A pig. Napoleon is cowardly, calculating, and selfish. Napoleon symbolizes Stalin, who led the Soviet Union from 1930 until his death in 1953. Snowball - A lively, original, and intelligent pig with less political awareness. Snowball symbolizes Trotsky, a rival of Stalin who was exiled. Squealer - A short and fat pig, who is a terrific speaker. Squealer represents the Soviet press, which Stalin controlled throughout his rule. Minimus – A pig who writes propaganda poems and songs praising Napoleon and Animal Farm. Boxer – A horse. Strong and hardworking, though not so intelligent. Boxer symbolizes the male working class and peasants of the Soviet Union. Clover – A horse. Clover is a gentle, motherly, and powerful. Clover symbolizes the female working class. Mollie – A vain horse who doesn’t care about the revolution. Mollie symbolizes the

selfish and materialistic middleclass. Benjamin – A donkey. An intellectual guided by a belief that life will always be difficult and painful. He reflects those who were aware of Stalins unjust and oppressive policies but did nothing to try to stop them Metaphor – when two things are compared - Similes – When something is compared using like or as - Personification – when an object is described with human characteristics - Week 4 – Plot Summary Week 4– Plot summary Week 5 – Persuasive writing devices Week 6 – Key Quotes 1. Old Major, the prize boar, calls a secret meeting of all the farm animals on Manor Farm. He states that a rebellion against their human master, Mr Jones, will one day come. 2. A cow starts the rebellion by walking into the store-shed. The animals end up chasing Mr Jones off the farm. 3.Now they are free, the animals all agree on the Seven Commandments that they will live by. The farm is renamed Animal Farm; there’s hope for a better

future. 4.The pigs start to order the other animals around and take more food than they should. 5.The animals bravely fight off a human attempt to retake the farm, this becomes known as The Battle of the Cowshed. 6.The animals set to work building a windmill and Napoleon takes charge. 7.Napoleon reduces the rations and rights of the animals and starts breaking the commandments. There is another invasion by the men and the windmill is blown up. Boxer collapses whilst rebuilding it for the second time. 8.Napoleon and the other pigs learn to walk on their hind legs, wear human clothes and carry whips. Despite all their hard work, the animals of the farm are right back to where they began, hungry, scared and exploited by those in charge. Alliteration – when 2 or more letter that are near one another begin with the same letter Fact – when something has evidence to support it, it is true Opinion – feelings or beliefs of an individual or group Repetition – when something is repeated

Rhetorical question – a question without an answer Emotive language – language designed to make an audience or reader feel a certain way Statistics – using percentages to support a view Triads – when writers list 3 ideas together. “Four legs good, two legs bad.” “Beasts of England.” “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Imagery – writers using descriptive words to create a picture Symbolism – when writers use ideas or pictures to represent something else Animal Farm was written in 1945. It was written by George Orwell. Orwell was a socialist. Orwell was born in 1903 Animal Farm was influenced by the events of World War II. Orwell wanted to write about the cruel leaders of Europe during the war. Animal Farm is an allegory of the events of the Russian Revolution. In Russia, in 1917, there were big changes to the political system. Lenin began governing Russia using the new idea of communism. Communism is the idea that the

government will own and run all of the economy for societies benefit. It is supposed to lead to a fairer society “If you have your lower animals to contend with,” he said, “we have our lower classes!” “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.” “Napoleon is always right,” Boxer said. Napoleon - “A fierce looking Berkshire boar.” Snowball – “a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.”