Animal Farm Extras

Christine Morrison
Aug 21
2 min read

Welcome, friends. While building SwiftRiverResources.com, I have found many wonderful resources that didn’t quite fit into the framework of the site-but are too good not to share!. Below, you’ll find a curated collection of links, activities and extras that bring “Animal Farm” to life in new and engaging ways. Use these to enrich your journey alongside our core curriculum on SwiftRiverResources.com. Please contact us if you have recipes or activities we should add to our collection!

A downloadable PDF with extra worksheets and word lists from SwiftRiverResources.com

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Excerpt from Amazon.com:

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.