Honors English Mrs. Novotny 1984 Honors English Mrs. Novotny

Day 1: Sit in your Color Groups SWBAT: Understand the controversy of “fake news.” Turn in Project for NIGHT AoW Read Annotate Two paragraphs summary Two paragraphs reflection (takes the place of daily reflection)

Day 2: Sit in your Number Groups SWBAT: Share their opinions of ”fake news” as well as learn new vocabulary for 1984. 1984 Vocab Check out 1984 AoW discussion Reflection: What were some of the most interesting ideas that came from the AoW discussion?

1984 Vocab sanguine sordid nebulous orthodoxy heresy inexorably odious din tremulous entrails

Things to look for in Pt 1 (the first 8 chapters) Symbols: Cold Ulcer Big Brother Dreams/Dreaming Doublethink Characters Girl O’Brien Mrs. Parsons Syme The Proles The lady of the night Katherine Themes Importance of individual thought Importance of sexuality Power of hate Places The Golden Country The Chestnut Tree Cafe

Day 3: Sit in your Sticker Groups SWBAT: understand the significance of a thoughtcrime. RQ Journal Discussion Reflection: Do you think that the party is inside of Winston’s head? He says that Thoughtcrime is death, but what does that mean to him as far as writing in his diary? Are Winston’s memories his memories?

Pt 1 Ch 1-2 RQ Which branch of party security does Winston feel is the only ones that mattered? What is ironic about everything that surrounds Winston beginning with the name “victory”? How does Winston feel initially about the girl from the fiction department? Which inner party member does Winston feel that he could possibly talk with? What happened to the people who watched the “two minutes of hate”? War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength are what? What does Winston writing repeatedly in his diary? Who was at the door? How does Mrs. Parson’s feel about her children? What does Winston say thought crime is?

Pt 1 Ch 1-2 RQ Key Thought police Nothing is victorious/everything is falling apart/everything is in a various state of decay He hates her/he wants to rape and murder her O’Brien The became angry/hated Goldstein/threw shoes at the screen/loved BB Party slogans Down with Big Brother Mrs. Parsons She is afraid of them Death

Journal #1 On page 7, Winston struggles with the significance of the ability to write. He reflects, “for the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him. How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible.” What do you do to communicate with the future? In the age of digital media, few memories are printed on paper (photos/letters/etc.). Long gone are family albums where photos were dated and sealed in plastic sheets. Love letters have been replaced with facetime and texts. How do we preserve our reality for future generations? Do you think that in some ways we too believe our lives are victorious, but in fact they are anything but?

Discussion Ch 1-2 Symbols: Characters Themes Cold Ulcer Big Brother Girl O’Brien Mrs. Parsons Themes Importance of individual thought Importance of sexuality Power of hate

Day 4: Sit in your Color Groups SWBAT: understand Winston’s internal struggle with his memories and his reality. RQ Journal Discussion Reflection: What is Winston’s role in spreading “fake news”? How do you feel about the ease that he does this?

Pt 1 Ch 3-4 RQ What is Winston’s belief about his mother? Whoever controls the past controls the ______________. Whoever controls the present controls the _____________. What was the lie that the party told about aviation? What happens when Winston stops doing his exercises? What is ironic about Winston’s primary job at the Ministry of Truth? What is an unperson? Who was Comrade Ogilvy?

Pt 1 Ch 3-4 RQ Key She died so that he could live Future Past The party invented airplanes The instructor yells at him through the telescreen He works in the ministry of truth but tells lies/changes the truth to favor BB Someone who has been vaporized A fake person that Winston invented to make BB look successful

Journal #2 Could you work for a company that went against your moral beliefs? What if that was your only choice of employment? When are we all forced to keep our true feelings hidden in order to remain part of the society from which we belong?

Discussion THE TRUTH?????? Family Past Job Statistics How weak minded are we???? https://youtu.be/CY9xOPTpk4o Why were we so quick to believe the 30 seconds of a video? Has this sort of selective media become too familiar in our world?

Day 5: Sit with your Number Groups SWBAT: understand the idea of being alive. RQ Journal Discussion Reflection: How do you feel about the shrinking of their language? What happens when people can no longer verbally share what has happened to them? What happens when we can no longer read what is written?

Pt 1 Ch 5 RQ What document is Syme working on? According to Syme, what is the most beautiful part of his job? What is one of the principle aims of newspeak? Who will be immune to newspeak? What does Winston believe about the people he is surrounded by? Who are the only two people that Winston believes will not be vaporized within the next two years? The unconscious look of anxiety is known as_______________.

Ch 5 RQ Key Newspeak Dictionary Destroying words Narrow the range of thought/make thoughtcrime impossible The proles They are all stupid/puppets/spoke duckspeak/believe everything that is told to them/not ideal party members as far as propaganda is concerned Parsons/Girl from fiction department Facecrime

Journal #3 Think about the changes that have happened to communication in the last fifty years. What roles do the increase in social media and texting contrast with the decrease of letter writing and phone calls. Do we speak in fragments? Are we losing the art of language? What about the way that we write? Most students only get one year of cursive instruction, and then are never asked to write in cursive again. When we lose the ability to read cursive, how can we read documents that are written in cursive (i.e. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution). Will we be able to actually prove that the words that are typed as those documents are really from those documents if we can no longer read them?

Winston’s Reactions to the Girl in the Fiction Department Look on pages 15 and 61 and compare/contrast the descriptions that Orwell uses to demonstrate the feelings that Winston has towards this woman. Dig deeply. Why do you think that he is having such a strong physical reaction to thinking of her and seeing her?

Day 6: Sit in your Sticker SWBAT: RQ Journal Discussion Reflection:

Pt 1 Chapter 6-7 RQ