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1984 Lesson

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Designed for a Year 10 MYP class as we read and analyse George Orwell's 1984. Many images have been removed to fit the 2MB size requirements. The lesson includes reading, critical thinking questions as well as writing tasks to put student learning into practice.

Shani P / Dubai

5 years of teaching experience

Qualification: English History Degree. Post Graduate diploma in teaching

Teaches: English, IGCSE/AS/AL, History, English Language, Humanities Social Sciences

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  2. Learning Objectives In this lesson we are going to closely read book 1 chapter 3 and explore the way that 'he who controls the past, controls the present'.
  3. Starter Activity: Quickfire Questions/ Tasks Should everyone should have free speech? (Explain your ideas) It is okay for the government to mislead in order to promote security? Are statistics always true? Write down as many words as you can that you think could be replaced by "ungood", "plusgood" and "doubleplusgood".
  4. Read: Let's Read Book l, Chapter 3
  5. Task: Summary and Analysis Question Winston wakes from a dream of his mother, who was vaporized when he was a boy, not long after his father disappeared. He sees his mother, holding his baby sister in her arms, on a sinking ship, lookina up at him through the water. He knows that his mother sacrificed her life for him and he regrets that there is no longer any privacy, love, friendship, or complex emotions— only fear, hatred, and pain. Question: How does Winston believe that the fate of his mother has affect9d his life as an adult and his view of tlxe world? (Use a quote in your response)
  6. Task: Summary and Analysis Question Still dreamina, he finds himself in a pasture in the countryside tlnat he thinks of as the "Golden Country." The girl with dark hair comes toward him, taking off her clothes with a careless gesture that Winston admires. He awakens with the word "Shakespeare" on his lips to an ear-splitting whistle from the telescreen, the daily wake-up call for office workers. Question: What is the relevance of the waking word of 'Shakespeare' on Winston's lips - what is this meant to symbolise?
  7. Task: Summary and Analysis Question Struggling through compulsory morning exercises, Winston tries to remember a time when Oceania hasn't been at war, and fails. Instead, he remembers sheltering as a child with his family in a Tube station during an air raid with a drunken old man who kept repeating that they "didn't ought to 'ave trusted the buggers." Because the written record is perpetually changing, and people are not allowed to speak of any version of events other than the official one, it is impossible to keep track, but Winston seems to remember that though the country has always been at war, the enemy has changed. According to the Party, however, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia. Winston knows that to remember differently constitutes thoughtcrime. Task: Explain the Party slogan, "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
  8. Task: Summary and Analysis Questions Winston decides that the Party's ability to change the past by controlling not only the media, but also the minds of citizens, is it's most friahtening power. He focuses on the concept of doublethink, a Newspeak word meaning "reality control," the ability to believe simultaneously in contradictory opinions when it's ideologically convenient. Winston tries to remember the year he first heard of Big Brother and realizes that the past has been destroyed, not merely altered. He does not even remember when he first heard the word INGSOC—Newspeak for the movement formerly known as English Socialism. Questions: How did Hitler change the German nation's perception of the Jewish race? How does surveillance create fear in a society? Are people in fear easier to manage and manipulate - explain your ideas in detail.
  9. Task: Summary and Analysis Question At that moment the telescreen screams at him to pay attention, and Winston realizes that his facial expressions are betraying his loathing of the Party. Question: Governments often defend their obsessive surveillance of citizens with the phrase, 'if you got nothing to hide then you have no need to worry' - does this explanation justify the right to be spied on?
  10. Academic Writing Task: Copy out the grid below and complete the tasks in red to complete a PEEWE paragraph Point Winston remembers a traumatic childhood through his dreams. Winston realises the sheer power of the media. Evidence Provide a quote to support your point. Provide a quote to support your point. Explore How has this shaped Winston as an adult? Can a person bring down the government through media control? Word Explore Analyse your quote. Explore how the audience gain meaning from the word choices and language techniques of the author. Analyse your quote. Explore how the audience gain meaning from the word choices and language techniques of the author.
  11. Extension Task: Micro Essay Minimum 100 words Describe doublethink (see page 37-38). Can you think of a modern example of doublethink? Peace N g; Povblefrnker
  12. Plenary The more Winston thinks about the party the more he realises how much control they really have. He is haunted by the past and terrified by the present. How important are Winston's dreams in the audience's understanding of him?

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