Tuesday

 Today we will read Book 3 chapter 2

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book III QUESTIONS

1. Why are the political prisoners more terrified than the common criminals?

2. Why was Ampleforth in prison?

3. What role does Winston think O’Brien has been playing?

4. According to O’Brien, why is Winston being tortured?

5. According to O’Brien, why does the Party want power?

6. Where does O’Brien think reality exists?

7. What does Winston see when he looks in the mirror?

8. At the end of Chapter III, what has Winston NOT done that O’Brien wants him to do?

9. What is in Room 101?

10. When and in what way does Winston betray Julia? Why is it significant?

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11. Why does O’Brien say prisoners are brought to the Ministry of Love?

12. Was the Party successful in “getting inside” Winston?

13. How do Winston and Julia now feel about one another?

14. How does Winston ultimately feel about Big Brother?

15. What “victory over himself” has Winston won?  Do you think it’s a real victory?

16. What do you think the major theme of 1984 is?  Why?

 

 

 

Monday

 

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book III QUESTIONS

1. Why are the political prisoners more terrified than the common criminals?

2. Why was Ampleforth in prison?

3. What role does Winston think O’Brien has been playing?

4. According to O’Brien, why is Winston being tortured?

5. According to O’Brien, why does the Party want power?

6. Where does O’Brien think reality exists?

7. What does Winston see when he looks in the mirror?

8. At the end of Chapter III, what has Winston NOT done that O’Brien wants him to do?

9. What is in Room 101?

10. When and in what way does Winston betray Julia? Why is it significant?

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11. Why does O’Brien say prisoners are brought to the Ministry of Love?

12. Was the Party successful in “getting inside” Winston?

13. How do Winston and Julia now feel about one another?

14. How does Winston ultimately feel about Big Brother?

15. What “victory over himself” has Winston won?  Do you think it’s a real victory?

16. What do you think the major theme of 1984 is?  Why?

 

 

 

Friday

 Vocabulary quiz. When you have finished the vocabulary quiz please work on study questions for Book 2. This will be due on Tuesday.

 

 

Thursday

 Today you have a quiz on Book 2. When you finish please either work on the study questions for Book 2 (due on Monday) or study for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow. 

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book Two, Chapter 1

How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?
How does Winston react to the note after he reads it?
Where do they manage to talk for the first time?
Where do they plan to meet?
What do Winston and Julia do before they part?

Book Two, Chapter 2

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
What familiar sign does Winston find?
What is the significance of the thrush music?
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
What is Julia’s job?
What is her background?
What is her attitude toward the Party?
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?

Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what? 

Chapters 5-6

1)  Who has vanished?
2)  Describe the preparations for Hate Week?  In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
3) Julia and Winston have some differences?  Explain them.
4) What finally convinces Winston that O'Brien is a member of the Brotherhood?

Book Two, Chapter 8—10 

1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles. 

2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston? 

3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood? 

4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston? 

Book Two, Chapter 9

1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984? 

2. What three classes of people have always existed?

3. In What ways have these three classes changed? 

4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984? 

5. What are the two aims of the Party? 

6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned? 

7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from associating with foreigners? 

8. The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence even though their forms of government have different names. Identify these similarities and explain why they exist? 

9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace." 

10. What are the aims of the three groups? 

11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century? 

12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century? 

13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants? 

14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power? 

15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power? 

16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world? 

17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class? 

18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?

Book Two, Chapter 10

1. What understanding does Winston gain about the common people?

2. What is the significance of the glass paperweight here?

 

 New Vocabulary Words

Strident

Urbane 

Obeisance

Slatternly

Impedimenta

Inscrutable

Sanguine

Aureola

Prevaricate

Automatrons 

Wednesday

 Today we need to review chapter 9, then finish Book 2. First write sentences with the words Aureola and Prevaricate and Automatrons 

4/22 Book 2 chap 10-11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book Two, Chapter 1

How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?
How does Winston react to the note after he reads it?
Where do they manage to talk for the first time?
Where do they plan to meet?
What do Winston and Julia do before they part?

Book Two, Chapter 2

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
What familiar sign does Winston find?
What is the significance of the thrush music?
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
What is Julia’s job?
What is her background?
What is her attitude toward the Party?
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?

Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what? 

Chapters 5-6

1)  Who has vanished?
2)  Describe the preparations for Hate Week?  In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
3) Julia and Winston have some differences?  Explain them.
4) What finally convinces Winston that O'Brien is a member of the Brotherhood?

Book Two, Chapter 8—10 

1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles. 

2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston? 

3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood? 

4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston? 

Book Two, Chapter 9

1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984? 

2. What three classes of people have always existed?

3. In What ways have these three classes changed? 

4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984? 

5. What are the two aims of the Party? 

6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned? 

7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from associating with foreigners? 

8. The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence even though their forms of government have different names. Identify these similarities and explain why they exist? 

9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace." 

10. What are the aims of the three groups? 

11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century? 

12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century? 

13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants? 

14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power? 

15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power? 

16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world? 

17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class? 

18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?

Book Two, Chapter 10

1. What understanding does Winston gain about the common people?

2. What is the significance of the glass paperweight here?

 

 New Vocabulary Words

Strident

Urbane 

Obeisance

Slatternly

Impedimenta

Inscrutable

Sanguine

Aureola

Prevaricate

Automatrons 

 

Tuesday

Today we need to continue reading chapter 9. First take a few minutes to write sentences with Sanguine and Aureola

4/21 Book 2 chap 9- 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book Two, Chapter 1

How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?
How does Winston react to the note after he reads it?
Where do they manage to talk for the first time?
Where do they plan to meet?
What do Winston and Julia do before they part?

Book Two, Chapter 2

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
What familiar sign does Winston find?
What is the significance of the thrush music?
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
What is Julia’s job?
What is her background?
What is her attitude toward the Party?
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?

Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what? 

Chapters 5-6

1)  Who has vanished?
2)  Describe the preparations for Hate Week?  In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
3) Julia and Winston have some differences?  Explain them.
4) What finally convinces Winston that O'Brien is a member of the Brotherhood?

Book Two, Chapter 8—10 

1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles. 

2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston? 

3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood? 

4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston? 

Book Two, Chapter 9

1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984? 

2. What three classes of people have always existed?

3. In What ways have these three classes changed? 

4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984? 

5. What are the two aims of the Party? 

6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned? 

7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from associating with foreigners? 

8. The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence even though their forms of government have different names. Identify these similarities and explain why they exist? 

9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace." 

10. What are the aims of the three groups? 

11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century? 

12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century? 

13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants? 

14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power? 

15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power? 

16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world? 

17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class? 

18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?

Book Two, Chapter 10

1. What understanding does Winston gain about the common people?

2. What is the significance of the glass paperweight here?

 

 New Vocabulary Words

Strident

Urbane 

Obeisance

Slatternly

Impedimenta

Inscrutable

Sanguine

Aureola

Prevaricate

Automatrons 

 

Monday

 Today I will give you a few minutes to write sentences with Impedimenta and Inscrutable and then we need to read chapters 8 - 9.

HW: Finish chapter 9 and work on study questions.  

4/20 Book 2 chap 8-9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book Two, Chapter 1

How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?
How does Winston react to the note after he reads it?
Where do they manage to talk for the first time?
Where do they plan to meet?
What do Winston and Julia do before they part?

Book Two, Chapter 2

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
What familiar sign does Winston find?
What is the significance of the thrush music?
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
What is Julia’s job?
What is her background?
What is her attitude toward the Party?
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?

Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what? 

Chapters 5-6

1)  Who has vanished?
2)  Describe the preparations for Hate Week?  In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
3) Julia and Winston have some differences?  Explain them.
4) What finally convinces Winston that O'Brien is a member of the Brotherhood?

Book Two, Chapter 8—10 

1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles. 

2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston? 

3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood? 

4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston? 

Book Two, Chapter 9

1. Why does Orwell include detailed passages from Goldstein’s Book in 1984? 

2. What three classes of people have always existed?

3. In What ways have these three classes changed? 

4. What is the purpose of war in the world of 1984? 

5. What are the two aims of the Party? 

6. What are the two problems with which the Party is concerned? 

7. Why do all three superpowers forbid their citizens from associating with foreigners? 

8. The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence even though their forms of government have different names. Identify these similarities and explain why they exist? 

9.. What is the real "war" fought in each of the three governments? Your answer will explain the party slogan, "War is Peace." 

10. What are the aims of the three groups? 

11. What changes in the pattern occurred in the nineteenth century? 

12. How did socialism change in the twentieth century? 

13. Why are the rulers in the twentieth century better at maintaining power than earlier tyrants? 

14. What are the four ways an elite group falls from power? 

15. How does the Inner Party make certain it will not fall from power? 

16. How is a person’s class determined in the 1984 world? 

17. What is doublethink and what is its purpose to the ruling class? 

18. Why is the mutability of the past important to the ruling class?

Book Two, Chapter 10

1. What understanding does Winston gain about the common people?

2. What is the significance of the glass paperweight here?

 

 New Vocabulary Words

Strident

Urbane 

Obeisance

Slatternly

Impedimenta

Inscrutable

Sanguine

Aureola

Prevaricate

Automatrons 

 

Friday

 Today we need to discuss chapter 5 and then read chapters 6-7. First, please write sentences with Obeisance and Slatternly

4/17 Book 2 chaps 6-7

4/20 Book 2 chap 8-9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book Two, Chapter 1

How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?
How does Winston react to the note after he reads it?
Where do they manage to talk for the first time?
Where do they plan to meet?
What do Winston and Julia do before they part?

Book Two, Chapter 2

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
What familiar sign does Winston find?
What is the significance of the thrush music?
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
What is Julia’s job?
What is her background?
What is her attitude toward the Party?
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?

Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what? 

Chapters 5-6

1)  Who has vanished?
2)  Describe the preparations for Hate Week?  In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
3) Julia and Winston have some differences?  Explain them.
4) What finally convinces Winston that O'Brien is a member of the Brotherhood?

 

 New Vocabulary Words

Strident

Urbane 

Obeisance

Slatternly

Impedimenta

Inscrutable

Sanguine

Aureola

Prevaricate

Automatrons 

 

Thursday

 Today you need to look up vocabulary words and write sentences with them and then read chapter 4-5.

4/16 Book 2 chap 4-5

4/17 Book 2 chaps 6-7

4/20 Book 2 chap 8-9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects 

Book Two, Chapter 1

How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?
How does Winston react to the note after he reads it?
Where do they manage to talk for the first time?
Where do they plan to meet?
What do Winston and Julia do before they part?

Book Two, Chapter 2

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
What familiar sign does Winston find?
What is the significance of the thrush music?
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
What is Julia’s job?
What is her background?
What is her attitude toward the Party?
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?

Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what? 

 New Vocabulary Words

Strident

Urbane 

Obeisance

Slatternly

Impedimenta

Inscrutable

Sanguine

Aureola

Prevaricate

Automatrons 

 

 

Tuesday

 Today we will read book 2 chapter 3 and give you some time to work on the study questions.

 Reading Schedule 

4/14 Book 2 chap 3

4/15 Book 2 chaps 3-4

4/16 Book 2 chap 5-6

4/17 Book 2 chaps 7-8

4/20 Book 2 chap 9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects

1984


Book Two, Chapter 1

How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it?
How does Winston react to the note after he reads it?
Where do they manage to talk for the first time?
Where do they plan to meet?
What do Winston and Julia do before they part?

Book Two, Chapter 2

Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
What are Julia’s ideas about the Party?
What familiar sign does Winston find?
What is the significance of the thrush music?
What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters?

Book Two, Chapter 3

How and where do Julia and Winston meet?
What is Julia’s job?
What is her background?
What is her attitude toward the Party?
Describe the quote “ With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness”. What does Winston think about Julia?
Why does the Party think the sexual impulse as well as the familial love dangerous?

Book Two, Chapter 4

How does Winston react to the singing Prole woman?
What pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
What is Winston’s reaction to rats? Julia’s reaction?
Winston is interested in the church bells that once played in the city even though he is not religious. What do church bells mean to him?
Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what? 

 New Vocabulary Words

Strident

Urbane 

Obeisance

Slatternly

Impedimenta

Inscrutable

Sanguine

Aureola

Prevaricate

Automatrons 

Monday

 We will begin Book 2 today. New vocabulary coming tomorrow.

4/13 Book 2 chap 1-2

4/14 Book 2 chap 3

4/15 Book 2 chaps 3-4

4/16 Book 2 chap 5-6

4/17 Book 2 chaps 7-8

4/20 Book 2 chap 9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects

 

Thursday/Friday

  

 

Thursday – Quiz over part 1 of 1984. Quiz can be found under this sheet. After you are done, please study vocabulary.

 

Friday – Vocabulary quiz. 

 

 

Wednesday

You need to finish Book One and answer the study questions. Please send the questions to me. 

 

Book One, Chapter 8

1. Why does Winston go off on his own? What activities is he missing out on?

2. What is life like in the proles’ end of London?

3. What does Winston think about after his conversation with the old man in the pub?

4. What does Winston discover at Mr. Charrington’s shop?

5. What is Mr. Charrington like?

6. What does Winston think when he sees the dark-haired girl outside Mr. Charrington’s shop?

7. How does one’s own body betray a person?

8. Why does Winston wonder about church bells ringing in London?

4/8 Finish Book 1

4/9 Quiz on Book 1 and study vocabulary

4/10 – Vocabulary Quiz

4/13 Book 2 chap 1-2

4/14 Book 2 chap 3

4/15 Book 2 chaps 3-4

4/16 Book 2 chap 5-6

4/17 Book 2 chaps 7-8

4/20 Book 2 chap 9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects

Tuesday

  Today we need to finish writing sentences with vocabulary words Inscrutable, Palimpest, and Multifarious, and look at chapters 7-8.

Book One, Chapters 5-7

1. What is the problem with obtaining razor blades?

2. What is revealed about Inner Party philosophy in the discussion between Winston and Syme?

3. Why does Winston feel that Syme will be vaporized?

4. Parsons brags about his children for doing what?

5. What is the significance of the telescreen announcement?

6. What are Winston’s feelings about the present time after he hears the cheerful announcement on the telescreen?

7. Winston predicts that certain people will be vaporized and that certain people will never be vaporized. Who? Why?

8. What is the purpose of marriage in the state?

9. What do Winston’s memories about visiting a prostitute reveal about his attitudes towards sex in Oceania?

10. How does Winston view the proles?

11. How are the proles controlled (prole control)?

12. What lies/half-truths does the Party teach about history?

13. Winston suspects that the Party lies about progress made since the war. What Party claims does he doubt?

14. What is the story of Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford?

15. Why is this story so meaningful for Winston?

16. What is Winston’s unanswered question?

Book One, Chapter 8

1. Why does Winston go off on his own? What activities is he missing out on?

2. What is life like in the proles’ end of London?

3. What does Winston think about after his conversation with the old man in the pub?

4. What does Winston discover at Mr. Charrington’s shop?

5. What is Mr. Charrington like?

6. What does Winston think when he sees the dark-haired girl outside Mr. Charrington’s shop?

7. How does one’s own body betray a person?

8. Why does Winston wonder about church bells ringing in London?

 

4/7  chapters 7-8

4/8 Finish Book 1

4/9 Quiz on Book 1 and study vocabulary

4/10 – Vocabulary Quiz

4/13 Book 2 chap 1-2

4/14 Book 2 chap 3

4/15 Book 2 chaps 3-4

4/16 Book 2 chap 5-6

4/17 Book 2 chaps 7-8

4/20 Book 2 chap 9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects

5/15 Presentations

 

 

Monday

 Today I need you to write sentences with Specious, Vindictiveness and Deride. We will then review study questions and look at chapter 6. Please turn in study questions for chapters 1-4.

Reading Schedule

4/6  chapter 6

4/7  chapters 7-8

4/8 Finish Book 1

4/9 Quiz on Book 1 and study vocabulary

4/10 – Vocabulary Quiz

4/13 Book 2 chap 1-2

4/14 Book 2 chap 3

4/15 Book 2 chaps 3-4

4/16 Book 2 chap 5-6

4/17 Book 2 chaps 7-8

4/20 Book 2 chap 9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects

5/15 Presentations

 

 

Friday

 Today we need to write sentences with Scrutinize and Nebulous, read chapter 4 and work on study questions.

NEW VOCABULARY

Contrived

Conceivable

Scrutinize

Nebulous

Specious

Vindictiveness

Deride

Inscrutable

Palimpest

Multifarious

 

Book One, Chapters 1-2

1. What bothers Winston?

2. What is wrong with his society?

3. What are the three slogans of the Inner Party?

4. What are the four ministries?

5. What items are written in italics?

6. How does the Two Minute Hate work?

7. What happens to Winston during the chant?

8. What happens between O’Brien and Winston?

9. During the film (p. 11), how did the audience react?

10. What is "thoughtcrime"?

11. What are the Thought Police?

12. Who are the Parsons and what do they represent?

13. How do the Parsons’ children behave?

14. What is Winston's dream about O’Brien?

15. What is announced on the news?  

Book One, Chapters 3-4

1. What is Winston’s dream about his mother? How does he feel about himself in that dream?

2. What is his dream about the "Golden Country"?

3. What does he remember about the big events of the past? Bombs? Past Wars?

4. Explain the Party slogan, "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

5. What does he know about the legends concerning Big Brother?

6. Describe Winston’s job.

7. How is the past controlled?

8. What special literature, music, and entertainment is produced for the proletariat (proles)?

9. How does Winston feel about his work? What sort of "creativity" is involved?

10. What is the significance of Comrade Ogilvy?

Book One, Chapters 5-7

1. What is the problem with obtaining razor blades?

2. What is revealed about Inner Party philosophy in the discussion between Winston and Syme?

3. Why does Winston feel that Syme will be vaporized?

4. Parsons brags about his children for doing what?

5. What is the significance of the telescreen announcement?

6. What are Winston’s feelings about the present time after he hears the cheerful announcement on the telescreen?

7. Winston predicts that certain people will be vaporized and that certain people will never be vaporized. Who? Why?

8. What is the purpose of marriage in the state?

9. What do Winston’s memories about visiting a prostitute reveal about his attitudes towards sex in Oceania?

10. How does Winston view the proles?

11. How are the proles controlled (prole control)?

12. What lies/half-truths does the Party teach about history?

13. Winston suspects that the Party lies about progress made since the war. What Party claims does he doubt?

14. What is the story of Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford?

15. Why is this story so meaningful for Winston?

16. What is Winston’s unanswered question?

 

 

1984 Reading Schedule

 

4/3  chapter 4-5

4/6  chapter 6

4/7  chapters 7-8

4/8 Finish Book 1

4/9 Quiz on Book 1 and study vocabulary

4/10 – Vocabulary Quiz

4/13 Book 2 chap 1-2

4/14 Book 2 chap 3

4/15 Book 2 chaps 3-4

4/16 Book 2 chap 5-6

4/17 Book 2 chaps 7-8

4/20 Book 2 chap 9

4/21 Book 2 chap 10

4/22 Book 2 chap 11

4/23 Quiz on Book 2, study vocabulary words

4/24 Vocabulary Quiz, work on study questions

4/27 Book 3 chap 1

4/28 Book 3 chap 2

4/29 Book 3 chap 3

5/1 QUIIZZEZ review

5/4 Writing Assignment - Review 

5/5 Book 3 chap 4

5/6 Finish 1984

5/7 Review

5/8 Review

5/11 TEST

5/12 - 5/14 Projects

5/15 Presentations