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