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Grade 12 Reading Worksheet: Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

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  • 2 pages total

  • 3 differentiated practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

  • 2 pages total

  • 3 differentiated practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

“Power corrupts, but it also traps the one who holds it.”
— Unknown

Additional Info:

  1. Difficulty Level: Advanced (CEFR C1)

  2. Skill Focus: Analyzing author’s purpose, tone, and the development of central ideas in literary nonfiction

  3. Standards / Strand:

  • CCSS-RI.11-12.2: Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development.

  • CCSS-RI.11-12.6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose and analyze how rhetoric is used to advance that point of view.

  • CEFR C1 Reading: Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognize implicit meaning.

  • Cambridge English Curriculum: Reading – Understanding writer’s attitude, purpose, and use of language in extended literary nonfiction.

This Grade 12 reading worksheet focuses on George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant and develops advanced analytical reading skills. Students examine central ideas, author’s purpose, tone, symbolism, and rhetoric in a literary nonfiction text. The worksheet includes three differentiated practice sections—Try This, Challenge Yourself, and Push Your Limits—to support progressive skill development, and concludes with a complete answer key.