Animal Farm: Target 9 for GCSE
Originally subtitled ‘A Fairy Story’, Animal Farm is a fable with great relevance for the modern age. The complex themes and ideas are a challenge for students but offer the most able a chance to develop the insightful interpretations needed to achieve higher grades.
This pack of activities will prompt high-level discourse and require students to be analytical, exploratory and conceptual, encouraging them to think and work at the top end of the GCSE assessment criteria.
An excellent resource for mixed-ability classes where differentiation is needed for the high-ability students, or equally as an additional resource for a top set when studying the novel or as revision activities
The resource covers the key areas of the book: important events, characters, relationships, context, language, structure, form, themes, setting, ideas and interpretations.
Within each key area, engaging and thought-provoking activities aim to:
- Prompt the recall of important points
- aid comprehension and reinforce clear, advanced understanding
- enable students to apply their knowledge of the novella to a new situation or an unseen extract
- support implicit and explicit analyses
- encourage individual interpretations and stimulate new, creative and individual ideas
Makes analysing texts a fun and creative procedure
Going further! Help students practise their essay-writing skills by using an annotated response to demonstrate the best way of achieving top marks.
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What do teachers say about this resource? (12100)
A really useful resource... Ideas were effectively challenging... I liked the organisation which would help whole-class teaching and enable some students to use the pack for extension work independently. The use of "creative writing" activities is also good practice for the writing sections of non-fiction papers. I also liked the sampling of extracts that could be used for practice... This would be a good support for teachers in terms of providing resources for both classwork and for homework and independent study... The layout is student friendly and the use of grids and boxes makes it easier for students to use their completed booklet as revision aides.
An excellent resource...It followed a reassuring house style with emphasis on characters, context, language, structure, form and themes, each with an exam style question... I particularly liked the glossary... Tasks were varied... Enhances learning by providing the student with reassurance.
Entails all the important information for all students.... I liked how it had pre-reading activities for students to complete... I also liked how it has tips to achieve a level 9... The presentation and layout is very easy to read.