Animal Farm Newspaper Project
Names: _________________________________________________________________
Pretend that you work in Napoleon’s information office. You are going to create a newspaper to send to animals on
surrounding farms that tells how great it is to live under animalism on Animal Farm. For Step #2 the writings need to be based
on details from the novel.
Steps:
1. Create a newspaper that reports the key events of the novel. Include stories, editorials, classifieds, and/or comics
(satires). Pictures should have captions, and stories and articles should have headlines.
2. Think of a good title for your newspaper. You need to decorate the cover page with appropriate phrases and images from
the novel which you need to reflect upon on the back in a section called “About the Cover”.
3. Choose four of the following:
a. Write a feature article that describes the events of the Rebellion: how it happened, who was all involved, and the
results.
b. Write an article explaining animalism that includes the commandments, the Sunday meetings and talks about
Beasts of England.
c. Write a feature story about one of your leaders Napoleon or Snowball. Your feature should be about 150 words
long and tell something interesting about Napoleon’s/Snowball’s life, his struggles, or how he protects the
animals.
d. Provide an advice column on how to start one’s own animal farm.
e. Write a feature story of your own creation. It could include the future plan, sports, recreation, arts, leisure, or
the retirement plan on Animal Farm.
4. Include at least two pictures of events on Animal Farm for your newspaper other than the cover. (Pictures can be stick
figures.)
Required pieces: Newspaper Title, Date, Headlining Story with picture and 3 additional stories that relate to Animal
Farm. Don’t forget your bylines (can be made up people)!
Make sure that both partners’ names end up on the back side of your newspaper. Be creative, have some fun, paper and coloring
materials on the side table.
Scoring
The newspaper project will be worth 40 points.
Format
The newspaper was laid out
correctly and was easy for the
reader to follow.
Content
All four requirements of
the assignment were met.
Originality
The stories were creative and
engaging.
Conventions
Articles in the newspaper
followed the conventions of
standard English with few
or no errors.
Score: 10
Articles in the newspaper
mostly followed the
conventions of standard
English but included a few
errors.
Score: 5
Articles in the newspaper
contained many errors
and/or did not adhere to the
conventions of standard
English.
Score: 10
The newspaper had some
errors in layout and design.
Score: 10
Not all of the requirements
of the assignment were
addressed.
Score: 10
The stories were somewhat
trite and did not show a great
deal of original thought.
Score: 5
Little effort appears to have
been used in newspaper
layout and design.
Score: 5
Few or none of the
required elements were
included on the newspaper.
Score: 0
Score: 0
Score: 5
The stories were hard to
follow and did not
demonstrate original ideas.
The stories did not engage the
reader and perhaps did not
make sense.
Score: 0
Score: 0
Total Score: