Animal Farm

Final Project Choices

(135 points)
As a group, or individually, you will choose ONE of the project options below. Each project
has different requirements that will allow you to express your knowledge and
understanding of the novel.

Newspaper Series- You will create a series of newspapers with headlines that are
important plot points within the novel. You will need to include at least 3 newspapers in the
series. As a regular newspaper runs, there are headline stories, and there are smaller
stories. In the smaller stories sections, you will include the historical allegorical reference
for the headlines. You are free to include other components, such as “Advice” columns,
“Readers Opinions” columns, “For Sale” Columns, and “Entertainment Columns”. For
inspiration, consult a real newspaper – no matter how hard it might be to get your hands on
one! You can use the template provided on Schoology.

Mini-Manifesto- You can create your own mini-manifesto based on the ideals of Animal
Farm, but you will apply it to society today. You should choose problems within society that
you think need to be changed. You will then create a speech similar to Old Major’s, calling
your peers to action. You will need to include at least one visual, whether that be election
buttons, pamphlets, flyers, etc. You will need to include a handout of some sort for everyone
in the class. *Your visual may NOT be a power point, but can be a campaign video.* (If you
e-mail me the document, I can make copies for you!) You will then deliver your speech to
the class in an attempt to get them to join your rebellion!

Fable- You will create a children’s book in the form of a fable, using the characters and main
plot points from Animal Farm. Your children’s book needs to be at least 6 pages in length,
should be neat, needs to be illustrated and colored, and must teach and obvious lesson. You
must include at least 5 main points from Animal Farm.

Irony Memes- You will create a meme-book that addresses the ironies within Animal Farm.
You will need to include 8 memes, as well as 8 references to Animal Farm and the ironies
that occur. Your meme should be relevant to Animal Farm and the irony you are discussing.
Your pictures should be school appropriate, as well as the verbage used on your memes.
You will then need to explain the ironic situation in Animal Farm, citing the page number.
 Newspaper Series Rubric
(135 Points)

Excellent Good Needs Improvement

Headlines You choose three
_______/15 important plot points to
the novel to write about.
Your headlines are clever
and eye catching.
Storylines Your explanations of your
_________/50 headline answer the
questions: who? What?
When? Where? Why?
How? to create an actual
news story about the
events of the novel. Your
storylines have specific
details from the novel. You
include quotes from the
chapters within your
storylines.
Sideline You fill in the rest of the
Stories space on the newspaper
__________/30 with clever sideline
stories. At least one of
your stories discusses the
allegorical connection in
the headline with an
accurate, historical event.
Grammar, You will lose one point
Conventions, per mistake.
and Spelling
_______/10
You choose three plot You are missing one or
points that are not the more plot points. Your
most important to the headlines are just
novel. Your headlines are sentences about the
expected and average. plot.
Your explanations of your Your explanations for
headline answer some of your headlines are
the following questions: vague and without
Who? What? When? specific details. You do
Where? Why? How? You not answer most of the
create storylines that have questions required. You
details from the novel. You do not include quotes
do not include quotes from the novel to help
from the novel, but you support your summary.
still include details.
Your sideline stories lack Your sideline stories are
creativity. You include an vague and brief. You do
allegorical connection in not include an
one of your sideline allegorical connection.
stories. Your allegorical
connection is not detailed,
but still connects with
your headline.
You will lose one point You will lose one point
per mistake. per mistake.

Title of your Your newspaper title is
newspaper clever, creative, and aligns
________/5 with Animal Farm.
In-Text All of your citations are
Citations correct according to MLA
_________/15 format.
Pictures You include at least 3
_______/15 relevant pictures per
newspaper to your
headlines and sideline
stories. Your pictures are
school appropriate
Your newspaper title
makes sense with Animal
Farm, but could be more
creative.
You make 1-2 mistakes in
MLA format and citations.
Your newspaper is
untitled or does not
make sense with Animal
Farm.
You make 3 or more
mistakes in MLA format
and citations.
You are missing
pictures. Your pictures
are not relevant with
your headlines and
sidelines. Your pictures
are not school
appropriate.
 Mini-Manifesto
(135 Points)

Excellent Good Needs Improvement

Societal Issues You identify at least three You identify three You are missing one or
societal issues that a societal issues that are more societal issues.
/40 current and relevant to current and relevant to Your issues are
the world today. Your the world today. You irrelevant to the world
issues are addressed in a
address the issues in a today. Your issues are
manner that is respectful
and easily understood. respectful way, but addressed in a
some of your issues disrespectful manner
need more description and are not well
or are not explained in explained.
detail.
Speech Your speech is well You deliver your You deliver your
delivered and speech but your speech, but your
/40 empowering. You speech is somewhat speech is difficult to
deliver your speech in difficult to follow. You follow. You do not
an inspirational address your societal discuss your societal
manner. You address issues but do not really issues. Your speech is
your societal issues pose a solution to the under three minutes
and pose solutions to problems we face. Your or over six minutes.
the problems we face speech only reaches You read directly off of
in a respectful manner. three minutes. You your paper. You
Your speech flows well utilize flashcards, but address your societal
and you do not exceed do not read directly off issues in offensive and
five minutes. Your use of them. disrespectful ways.
of flashcards to
remember your speech
is minimal.
Visual/ Handouts Your visual is bright, Your visual is colorful Your visual is
colorful, and but is not organized or disorganized and not
/30 organized. Your visual neat. You do not use colorful. You do not
is eye-catching and the dimensions of your use the dimensions of
inspirational. Your visual proportionately. your visual well. Your
visual is relevant to Your visual is relevant visual does not relate
your societal issues to your societal issues to your societal issues
and your manifesto. and manifesto, but or your manifesto. You
You have a handout for could use more detail. do not have a handout
everyone in your class. You have a handout for for everyone in class.
everyone in your class.

X
Relation to Your societal issues Your societal issues
relate to those issues have nothing to do
Animal Farm in Animal Farm. with those in Animal
/25 Farm.
 Create-a-Fable
(135 Points)

Excellent Good Needs Improvement

Physical Appearance Your fable is created to Your fable is neat and Your fable is not
/35 look like a children’s colored but could be colored. Your fable is
book. Your fable is more organized. You not neat or organized.
neat, colored, shaded, hand wrote your fable Your fable is not well
organized, and well and it could be neater. written.
written. Your fable is printed
out and does not look
like a book.
Fable (Plot line) Your fable makes Your fable uses Your fable does not
/40 logical sense, is well characters and some relate to Animal Farm
written, uses main points from whatsoever. Your fable
characters and main Animal Farm, but is not six pages. Your
plot points from strays away from the fable does not teach an
Animal Farm. Your story slightly. Your obvious lesson and
fable teaches an fable teaches a lesson, does not include any
obvious lesson that but it is not obvious or main points from
can be learned from is not closely related to Animal Farm.
Animal Farm. Animal Farm.
Pictures Your pictures are Your pictures are Your pictures are not
/40 colored or shaded, colored or shaded and colored or shaded.
make sense with the make sense with the Your pictures do not
plot line, and are not plot line. Your pictures make sense with the
printed off of the are printed off of the plot line. You are
internet. Your pictures internet. Your pictures missing pictures. Your
are proportionate to could be more pictures are not
the page. proportionate to the proportionate to the
page. page.

X
Page Requirements Your fable meets all Your fable is not
/15 length requirements meeting all length and
and main point main point
requirements. requirements.
 Irony Meme Book
(135 Points)

Physical Your book is neat, Your book is neat, but Your book is sloppy,
organized, and nicely could be neater. Your disorganized, and
Appearance written or typed. Your book is slightly illegible. Your memes
/35 booklet is put together organized. Your book are messily pasted
and clean. Your memes is handwritten, but is onto the pages.
are either printed out not very neat. Your
or pasted on nicely. memes are printed out
or pasted on.
Memes Your 8 memes are Your 8 memes make Your memes do not
clever and make sense sense with your make sense with the
/50 with the ironies in ironies in Animal ironies of Animal Farm.
Animal Farm. You use Farm. Your memes are You use memes that
memes that are well school appropriate. are not school
known and are appropriate.
appropriate for school. You use less than 8
memes in your
booklet.
Explanations Your explanations for Your explanations for Your explanations for
your memes discuss your memes discuss your memes do not
/50 the ironies of Animal the ironies of Animal discuss the ironies of
Farm specifically, using Farm but need to be Animal Farm. You do
details from the text more specific and use not use details or
that are properly cited. more details. specifics, nor do you
use citations.

To make memes, you can upload pictures into publisher and put text
over the pictures.

Example:

You would then explain the irony of this quotation, using specific
examples from the novel.