1. By the end of this lesson I:
Will have read chapters 4 and 5
Will have explored the characters of Mollie and Boxer in more detail
Will have created an animal persona for a real life politician.
Big Picture
Together we will read two more chapters and use
creative approached to explore the key characters in the novel.

2. Reading
Chapter 4

3. Hot seating It is the evening of the day on which the Battle
of the Cowshed took place. The following
animals are here to be interviewed:
Napoleon
Snowball
Mollie
Boxer
Think of some key questions to ask them at
this point in the revolution.
Then we shall put them in the hot seats!

4. Reading
Chapter 5

5. Choose a leader Napoleon for leader! Snowball for leader!
Thinking about what we have read so far. Note down qualities and actions which make each of these characters good leaders.
Napoleon for leader!
Snowball for leader!
Now read chapter 5. Anything to add…or remove?

6. Modern political leaders
Choose one of the following leaders. Turn them into an animal.
Explain why you have chosen this animal.
David Camron
Barrack Obama
Boris Johnson
Nick Clegg
The Queen
Prince Charles
You may choose your own, though it has to be a modern / current leader

7. Homelearning
Write a speech for your animal leader in which they try to persuade people to follow them/ their ideas.
Use persuasive techniques such as the ones you identified in the Major’s speech:
Rhetorical questions
Second person pronouns
Repetition
Lists of three