FINAL TASK
Prepare Your Cheat Sheet
Before the final Animal Farm writing task, you will have 20–30 minutes in class to prepare a cheat sheet.
You may use your Animal Farm booklet and your earlier work while creating it.
Your cheat sheet should help you remember the novella when you later write your final essay in Exam.net.
You may include:
- Important characters – who they are and why they matter
- Important events – major moments in the story
- Changes on Animal Farm – what changes from the beginning to the end
- Power and leadership – who has power and how it is used
- Propaganda – examples of slogans, speeches, statistics, fear or changed information
- Big ideas and themes – for example equality, freedom, loyalty, democracy and corruption
- Useful evidence – scenes or events you may want to refer to
- Orwell’s message – ideas about what you think Orwell wants readers to understand
Three Questions to Help You
When choosing what to write down, ask yourself:
What happened?
Why was it important?
What does it tell us about the characters, Animal Farm or one of the big ideas?
Rules
Your cheat sheet must be:
one A4 page
handwritten
one side only
made during the lesson
written using keywords, short notes and examples
Do not write an essay in advance.
At the end of the lesson, you will hand in your cheat sheet. You will receive it back when you complete the final writing task in Exam.net.
Remember
You do not need to memorise exact quotations. What matters is that you can remember important examples from the novella and explain why they matter.