We worked on a precis based on the essay on “Revisiting George Orwell:  why I write in the 21st Century”

Read your assigned essay for tomorrow (on Moodle as 1984 Reading Package of 5 Essays):

1. As Orwell’s 1984 Turns 70 It Predicted Much of Today’s Surveillance Society
2. What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published
3. How Has George Orwell’s Novel”1984″ Come True Today?
4. 1984 And George Orwell Live Again in Putin’s Russia
5. The Message for Today in Orwell’s ‘1984″

Students need to get their outlines checked out and discuss their essays prior to writing!

One should not start writing their first drafts until one gets approval.

Second draft of their paragraph on the theme of 1984…tomorrow in class.

Also think about any ideas, questions that you are interested in exploring for 1984.

Work hour on Thursday, March 7th to work on:

• 1984 Project due Monday, March 11
• 1984 Part 3 handout and Quiz on Monday, March 11
• Week #25 Vocab practice…composition on Friday, March 8

1984 Project due: Monday, March 11

1984 Book 3 Quiz also on Monday, March 11

Start thinking ahead to some ideas you are interested in exploring for a 1984 essay

Vocab Week 23 Composition tomorrow!

We’ve been moving very slowly through the novel 1984…if you have not started reading Book 2 and working on the questions for Book 2…you are behind!

1984 Book 1 Quiz on Monday, February 26

1984 Book2 Quiz on Monday, March 4

1984 Book 3 Quiz on Monday, March 11

Complete the Doublethink HO for Thurs, Feb 15

We will continue with discussion about language and themes you see in the first chapters

Read Part 1 of 1984 as well as Appendix

Complete HO on Book 1

Be ready to discuss!

Read Part 1 of 1984 as well as Appendix

Complete HO on Book 1

Be ready to discuss!

Reminder:

Be prepared for Week #21 Vocabulary Composition on Friday, February 9th!

Start reading novel, 1984, if you have not started by now…