1. What is his speech about? Where is the novel set?
Animal Farm - 5 in 5
Who is Old Major?
What is his speech about?
Where is the novel set?
What rules do the animals have to follow (the seven commandments)?
What song do they sing?
Chapter 1

2. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
How are we introduced to a hierarchy in Animal Farm?
What is Mr Jones like?
Why is this important?
What do the animals want?
How do they think they will get what they want?
Chapter 1

3. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 Who does the death of Old Major represent?
Who turn Major’s ideas into “a complete system of thought” called animalism?
What is symbolic of the renaming of Manor Farm?
The animals seem to have created a perfect society – How can you agree with this?
Why paint the seven commandments on the wall?
Chapter 2

4. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
How do the animals come to be in charge of Animal Farm?
Which animals take charge?
How are they presented?
What do they do at the end that could be seen as unequal?
What was Orwell suggesting about the utopian dream the animals had?
Chapter 2

5. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
How is the farm seen as Utopian at the start of Chapter 3?
How do the animals feel about being in control themselves?
What do the pigs do?
How does Orwell present education?
Why does Squealer threaten the animals with Mr Jones coming back?
Chapter 3

6. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
Boxer is described as “as good as three horses” – what does this show about him?
The sheep chant “two legs good, four legs bad” continuously – what does this show about them?
The pigs say “it is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples” – what does this show about them?
How is Orwell using the pigs to show corruption?
Why do the other animals agree to the pigs corrupt behaviour so readily?
Chapter 3

7. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 – Themes – start to end of Chapter 3
Where is equality seen in the story so far?
How is leadership presented?
How is power presented?
Why are we introduced to Revolution?
How is Education seen by different animals?
Chapter 1 – 3

8. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
How is the allegorical meaning being shown in Animal Farm?
What is important about the spreading of “Beasts of England”?
Why do Mr Frederick and Mr Pilkington ‘team up’ in support of Mr Jones?
How do the animals foil the attempted reclamation of Animal Farm?
How does Boxer feel about the death of a stable boy?
Chapter 4

9. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
“first class” and “second class” – what does this show about the comrades?
Why is it important that the sheep dies?
What is Mollie doing?
What do they call the battle?
What do they decide to do to celebrate the anniversary in the future?
Chapter 4

10. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 Why is Mollie “more and more troublesome”?
Why does Mollie defect?
What does this show about the solidarity of the animals on Animal Farm?
How is the leadership off the pigs shown to be fractured?
Why do some animals want a windmill?
Chapter 5

11. Why does the windmill divide the farm? What does Napoleon want?
Animal Farm - 5 in 5
Why does the windmill divide the farm?
What does Napoleon want?
What does Snowball want?
How does Napoleon manage his coup?
What does this mean for the animals in the farm?
Chapter 5

12. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 Why does Napoleon ban the Sunday debates?
What is this similar to (politically)?
What do the dogs represent?
What is Napoleon’s “cunning”?
“sat facing them” makes the animals sound like... Because…
Chapter 5

13. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 – exploring quotes – inference & connotations & zoom in on words
The simile “All that year the animals worked like slaves” suggests…
The use of adjectives “slow, laborious process” shows the building of the windmill was…
Boxer’s first person slogan “I will work harder” indicates…
The undemocratic decision “would engage in trade with the neighbouring farms” makes the animals feel a “vague uneasiness” implying…
The description “promptly silenced by a tremendous growling” creates…
Chapter 6

14. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
How is Napoleon gradually taking power and control?
How is Napoleon’s control and influence over the animals ironic?
How do the sheep support Napoleon?
Why should trade be frowned upon by all the animals?
How do we see the duplicity of the pigs in the ‘bed without sheets”?
Chapter 6

15. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
Benjamin is the only openly sceptical animal about the windmill – why is this?
What causes the destruction of the windmill?
What or who does Napoleon blame?
Why does he do this?
What sentence does Napoleon pass on Snowball?
Chapter 6

16. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
How is pathetic fallacy used to show us the plight of the animals?
What do the executions show us about the farm?
How is trust important to Napoleon’s continued success as the leader of the farm?
Why is “Beasts of England” banned?
How is Napoleon’s reign of terror successful?
Chapter 7

17. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 – Themes Ch4 – Ch7
How is inequality shown?
Power is a corrupting influence – how is this shown?
Terror and tyranny are used to…
Democracy is undermined in many ways: (give three examples)
How is the utopian dream shattered?
Chapter 4 – 7

18. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 How is power abused in Chapter 8?
What amendments are made to the seven commandments?
Squealer is able to brainwash the other animals – How does he do this?
The Battle of the Windmill results in…
How do the animals feel at the end of the Battle?
Chapter 8

19. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
Corruption, greed and alcoholism are now embedded in Napoleon’s behaviour – in what way can this be seen?
Death is now seen by the animals as…
Boxer feels disillusioned by the battle – how do we know?
How does Napoleon act as a dictator?
What propaganda are the animals fed?
Chapter 8

20. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 How is Boxer feeling?
What does the ceremonies make the animals feel?
What are the collective memories of Mr Jones?
How is Boxer deceived?
Why do the other animals so readily accept Squealer’s explanation?
Chapter 9

21. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 Is life better or worse for the animals now?
How do we know they have accepted their lot?
How do the pigs retain control?
What does Moses’ return symbolise?
What message is Orwell sending about power?
Chapter 9

22. Animal Farm - 5 in 5
Who is left behind on the farm from the original animals?
What do they think and feel about the changes?
What are the new seven commandments?
How do the pigs behave?
What shocks the other animals?
Chapter 10

23. Animal Farm - 5 in 5 Why do the pigs walk on two legs?
How do the sheep support this?
Why does the name change back to Manor Farm?
How do the pigs and the men blend into one another?
What was Orwell suggesting about humanity, leadership and power?
Chapter 10

24. Animal Farm – 5 in 5
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” Make 5 suggestions about how this links to the main themes, characters and intentions in Animal Farm