They learn many lessons as they struggle to define and create an ideal community. The novel, presented as a fable, uses animals to comment on human society and nature. Animal Farm satirizes the events of the Russian Revolution and the years following, from 1917 to 1943.
Some students organize a protest and ask for a voice in setting rules.
The principal rejects this without explanation. You are reading two different newspapers one day, and you see that they tell different versions of the same event. Help students look into their views about how to change society. Begin by having students name a wrong in society such as large companies influencing politicians, or powerful people promoting racism. Have them identify the reasons their example speaks to something that is wrong, and how people should change it.