Homework Assignment (Monday 15th November)

For your Monday assignment, I'd like you to pretend to be Snowball, and write a version of the speech he gave to the animals to persuade them they should adopt his plan for the Windmill.

Learning Objective: To organise and present a whole text effectively, sequencing and structuring information, ideas and events.

(PLEASE WRITE THE LEARNING OBJECTIVE AT THE TOP OF YOUR PIECE OF WORK. It brings out my Inner Shrek every time I look in your books and find that somebody has failed to write the L.O. In fact, if you don't write it this time, I'll set a pack of wild dogs on you give you detention. There. That should be a decent motivator, surely?)

If you'd like to refer back to the text to refresh your memory, you can find a complete edition of 'Animal Farm' online here: http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html

(This should be about a page in length, ideally. It would be a good idea to do a bit of planning first of all - think about what difficulties will be involved in physically building a windmill, and what advantages electricity should be able to bring to the animals. Think about the kind of persuasive language and techniques Squealer uses too - that might give you some clues, if you're feeling uncertain.)

As usual, this needs to be completed by Wednesday.