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English Year 10 - Animal Farm: Animal Farm + Disinformation

A selection of resources to support Year 10 students studying 'Animal Farm'

Disinformation, MIsinformation & Malinformation

Image Ref. : Wardle, C. (2019). First draft's essential guide to understanding information disorder. First Draft. https://firstdraftnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Information_Disorder_Digital_AW.pdf?x76701

Animal Farm

 

Image Ref. : Wardle, C. (2019). First draft's essential guide to understanding information disorder. First Draft. https://firstdraftnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Information_Disorder_Digital_AW.pdf?x76701

Animal Farm + Fake News

'Animal Farm’ Perfectly Describes Life in the Era of Donald Trump and Fake News
Orwell, who had perhaps the most brilliant political mind of the twentieth century, even anticipated the phenomenon of fake news. The historic Battle of the Cowshed, in which the animals liberated the farm from the humans, was told and retold with fake news added as the pigs began to squabble...continue reading...

Animal Farm + Disinformation

  Animal Farm at 75 'Still As Relevant As Ever'                                                                                    
Is Animal Farm still relevant today? As Orwell’s classic celebrates its 75th birthday, some commentators warn its anti-totalitarian message remains grimly pertinent to the modern world
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Animal Farm + 2020

 

   We’re Still Living in the World That Inspired Animal Farm—75 Years Later

It was once written “In a hundred years’ time perhaps, Animal Farm may be simply a fairy story, today it is a political satire with a good deal of point.” That was then, and this is now...
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