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Animal Farm Chapter 4 Tuesday 2 nd February 2021
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Animal FarmChapter 4
Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Learning purposes
• To recap our understanding of Animal Farm so far • To consider the significance of The Battle of the Cowshed• To explore the importance of violence in the novella
Recap of previous learning1) Write down three adjectives to describe
Napoleon, Snowball and Squealer.2) How has the theme of rebellion been
evident in the novella? 3) What key settings have been introduced so
far?
Future Learning• Develop whole-text skills. • You will have an assessment on
Animal Farm, the second part of your Literature Paper One
Work submission
This week you are required to submit the writing task at the end of the lesson to your English Literature teacher:
Recap
1. Which characters took on the roles of directing and supervising the other animals during the harvest?
2. Which character was the ‘admiration of everyone’ on the farm? Why was this? 3. What was Boxer’s motto? 4. Which characters tried to avoid doing work? 5. What happened on Sundays? Write down two things. 6. What did Snowball attempt to set up for the animals? 7. Which of the characters has the ability to read and write but ’never exercised his faculty’? 8. What single maxim were the Seven Commandments reduced to by Snowball? Why was this
done? 9. Which animals bleat this maxim for ‘hours on end’?10. What reasons does Squealer provide for the pigs having to keep the milk and apples for
themselves?
Key word
Hierarchy
a system in which people or things are arranged according to their importance
How can we apply this word to our study of Animal Farm so far?
Chapter 4
Read from ‘By the late summer..’ to ‘a prophecy of their future doom.’
As you are reading, consider the following:
• How the farmers reacted to the news about Animal Farm.• How smaller revolutions occurred.
Mr Pilkington and Mr Frederick
‘Nevertheless they were both thoroughly anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it. At first they pretended to laugh and scorn the ideas of animals managing the farm for themselves. The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said.’
What does this reveal about Mr Pilkington and Mr Frederick and their thoughts about the rebellion? Can we link this to our key word today?
Questions – find quotations to support the following:1. How Mr Pilkington is presented.2. Which farm Mr Pilkington owns.3. How Mr Frederick is presented. 4. Which farm Mr Frederick owns. 5. Two rumours have been spread about Animal Farm by the humans.6. How Beasts of England was spread to the other farms. 7. What happened to animals who were caught singing Beasts of
England.
Questions – find quotations to support the following.
1. How Mr Pilkington is presented.
2. Which farm Mr Pilkington owns.
3. How Mr Frederick is presented.
4. Which farm Mr Frederick owns.
5. Two rumours have been spread about Animal Farm by the humans.
6. How Beasts of England was spread to the other farms.
7. What happened to animals who were caught singing Beasts of England.
'an easy-going gentleman farmer’
‘Foxwood’
‘a tough, shrewd man….with a name for driving hard bargains’
‘Pinchfield’
‘the animals practised cannibalism’ ‘tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes’ ‘had their females in common’
‘Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons’ ‘the blackbirds whistled it in hedges’ ‘the pigeons cooed it in the elms’ ‘it got into the din of the smithes and the tune of the churchbells’
They were ‘given a flogging’
Chapter 4
Read from ‘Early in October…’ to the end of the chapter.
As you are reading, consider the following:
• The role of each animal during the battle (particularly Snowball and Boxer)• The animals’ reactions to the battle• What happened after the battle and why this is significant.
Chapter 4 summary
As summer ends and news of the rebellion spreads to other farms (by way of __________ released by Snowball and Napoleon), Jones spends most of his time in a _______, complaining about his troubles to two neighbouring farmers: Pilkington and _________. In October, Jones and a group of men arrive at Animal Farm and attempt to ______ control of it. ___________ turns out to be an extraordinary tactician and, with the help of the other animals, drives Jones and his men away. The animals then celebrate their victory in what they call "The Battle of the ____________.”. The animals decide to create a military decoration, ‘Animal Hero _______ Class’ which was given to Snowball and Boxer. ‘Animal Hero ________ Class was awarded to the ________ posthumously.
sheep Frederick First pub Cowshed seize
pigeons Snowball Second
The Battle of the Cowshed
On the next slide, you will see six events from The Battle of the Cowshed.
1. Decide which order these events go in. 2. Create a storyboard detailing the main events of the battle.
The Battle of the Cowshed
• Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones’ legs and Boxer kicked one with his great hoofs. Within five minutes of their invasion, they were in retreat. Animals won the Battle of the Cowshed.
• Snowball launched the second line of attack. All the sheep, Muriel the goat and Benjamin the donkey with Snowball at the head of them rushed forward and prodded and butted all men.
• All the animals returned to the farm at a squeal from Snowball. The men gave a shout of triumph and ran to the farm as fast as they could.
• As soon as they were inside the yard, three horses, three cows and the rest of the pigs emerged cutting them off. Suddenly, Jones fired his gun and a sheep dropped dead.
• Snowball launched the first attack, all the pigeons and geese rushed out to defend the farm. Pigeons ‘dropped their dung’ on the men from mid-air and geese pecked the calves of their legs.
• Mr Jones, Mr Frederick and Mr Pilkington were angry at the animals and attempted to recapture the farm. Mr Jones carried a gun and the others carried sticks.
Symbolism – Mr Jones’ Gun
• Mr Jones’ rifle that he dropped during The Battle of the Cowshed is left as a trophy by the flagstaff.• The animals decide to fire this twice a year, once on the anniversary
of The Battle of the Cowshed and again on the anniversary of the Rebellion. Both of these events become deeply significant in the history of Animal Farm.
Why do you think Orwell has included this symbol in the novella?
Chapter 4 analysis – make notes
• Orwell reminds us of what the animals are revolting against when he introduces the humans. We also see how fragile the new society is an vulnerable to attack from outside.
• The farmers suppress any signs of rebellion on neighbouring farms. Orwell again reminds the readers of humans’ oppressive, selfish nature and introduces readers to the farm’s violent neighbours.
• We are given another reminder of what is achieved when the animals are united: ‘Even the cat’ fights to protect the farm.
• Snowball is seen as a brilliant strategist.• Boxer and Snowball both risk their lives to defend the farm and are praised as heroes of
the battle. However, we see that – unlike Snowball – Boxer is compassionate, as Orwell emphasises when the carthorse is upset at injuring the stable-lad during the battle.
• There are further signs that a hierarchy is developing: Napoleon and Snowball direct events and some animals are favoured.
Writing task
Produce two paragraphs in response to the following question:
‘No sentimentality, comrade!’ cried Snowball, from whose wounds the blood was still dripping. ‘War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.’ Explore the importance of violence in the novella.
This work should be submitted to your teachers.
Writing task
Skim back through the online version of the text and find examples of violence from the novella so far. Consider physical acts of violence, the impact that violence has on characters and what violence leads to in the novella.
Violence
Example paragraph
Orwell introduces the theme of violence early on in Animal Farm when Mr Jones uses violence as a weapon of control towards the animals. After being woken up by the animals’ raucous reaction to Old Major’s address, Mr Jones ‘seized his gun’ and ‘let fly a charge of Number 6 shot into the darkness’ in order to silence the animals. Orwell deliberately includes this act of violence at the beginning of the novella to foreshadow that violence is likely to be used as a method of control not only by the humans, but potentially by the more powerful animals as well. Furthermore, the gun that ‘always stood in a corner of Jones’ bedroom’ is then reclaimed by the animals in Chapter 4 following The Battle of the Cowshed and is used a symbol of the animals’ victory over the humans. The recurrent symbol of the gun throughout the novella suggests to the reader that though humans and animals may come and go from the farm and the powerholders may change, violence will inevitably remain a permanent feature on Animal Farm.
Plenary
What do you think will happen next in Animal Farm?
Write down a prediction.
