Mind Map for Animal Farm
A mind map is a picture of the way you think. Your task is to use words and pictures to justify your response to one of the following prompts from Animal Farm. This is similar to a web in preparation for a formal essay, but you will use pictures to accompany your details and evidence.
How to Draw a Mind Map:
1. First, examine the example mind map on the back of this sheet.
2. Decide which prompt you would like to use as your focus. Draw a picture in the middle of the page indicating your starting point and your thesis statement. Please write out your thesis statement in the middle of your page.
3. Your branches off of your main point/picture should represent the big ideas of how you would support your argument (much like the point of body paragraphs in an essay). You need a minimum of three branches (big points).
4. Your last extensions off of the big ideas should represent your supporting details/evidence.
5. Pictures should accompany any points possible.
Topics for Mind Map:
1. How does Napoleon use Squealer to control the animals on Animal Farm?
2. What scenes or incidents in the book turned you against Napoleon? How did the way Orwell write it add to its effect?
3. Orwell said: “Animal Farm is the history of a revolution gone wrong.” Why do you think the animals’ revolution fails in the end?
4. Are you amazed at the gullibility of the animals? How are they so easily fooled and misled?
5. How is manipulation used in the text and why is it so important? What do you think Orwell is trying to portray about manipulation and human nature?
6. How do the pigs use propaganda to obtain and maintain power? What do you think Orwell’s trying to say about the power of the media?
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Mind Map Example for 1984 by George Orwell
Prompt: What does Orwell say about the importance of language in this text?