Animal Farm Research Project

George Orwell Project

Instructions:

Go to www.turnerlearning.com/tntlearning/animalfarm.  Click on All About Orwell.

Find the answers to the following questions. 

1.  What was George Orwell's real name?

2.  Where and when was he born?

3.  What was his mother's family's business?  What did his father's family do?

4.  Where did Orwell go to school?

5.  How did his family's occupations effect Orwell's personal career decisions?

6.  What is a pseudonym?  Why did Orwell choose to use one?

7.  Before he wrote Animal Farm, what topics did Orwell explore in his novels?  Why?

Now click on Historical Backdrop.  Answer the following questions.

8.  Paraphrase in your own words Orwell's reasons for writing.

9.  When was Animal Farm written?  Why was this an important time in history?

10.  Animal Farm was published between two wars.  Name them.

Open a Word document and save in your library research folder with the filename Orwell.

Set your line spacing on double spacing. (Format, paragraph, line spacing)

Using what you have learned, write a one-page report answering the above questions.