Choose a Creative Project
This creative project will get you to reach back to the course for skills and ideas you picked up along the way and use them to think about the novel. Choose ONE of the following assignments:
Choice 1: Diary Entries
Choose a character from Animal Farm and write 10 diary entries from their point of view. The diary should span the entire story, so that you'll be writing about events that take place throughout the novel. Include plenty of details to show that you understand the story as well as the character's feelings, motivations, and emotions, as well as how they relate to the theme of the story.
Choice 2: Picture Collage
Create a collage using digital images or by cutting images from magazines. Use at least 10 images. The collage should represent the plot of Animal Farm. Write a 2-page essay that explains the images you chose.
If you create a physical collage, be sure you take a very clear photograph or create a clear scan of the project.
Choice 3: Additional Chapter
Write a 3-5 page additional chapter to the novel. Continue the story as if you were the author, writing in the same style and as if this chapter were planned all along. Make sure you take into account the motivations of the characters.
Keep in mind that the final chapter of Animal Farm takes place many years later and several animals have died. It ends with a fight between the pigs and humans, and the pigs also start to look like humans. Will your extra chapter continue the events in Chapter 10? Will you skip further ahead? Will you focus on the point of view of a particular character who is left, and if so, which character might be the most interesting one to continue the story? How will the chapter relate to the overall theme or message of the story?
When you're finished, click on the Final Project assignment link above to attach your project for grading.