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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YbB
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What would you do if someone could watch
everything you do? How would you feel?
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What would you do if you could no longer
think for yourself; what would you do if you
could not be an individual / your own person?
How would you feel?
What do you know about each of these terms, made
famous by Orwell in 1984? If you don’t know
anything, what can you imagine each means?
Big Brother
doublethink
thoughtcrime
Newspeak
memory hole
Orwellian
How does George
Orwell’s vision of
technology and its uses
in “1984” compare with
today’s reality?
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“The clocks were striking thirteen”
“Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an
effort to escape the vile wind”
“varicose ulcer”
“boiled cabbage and old rag mats”
“heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome
features”
“Even at the best of times it was seldom working”
“Hate Week”
“one of those pictures which are so contrived that the
eyes follow you about when you move”
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
Four more years of War is Peace,
Ignorance is Strength and Slavery is
Freedom.
Four more. May all your interventions
be "Humanitarian".
Four more years of pay-to-play
politics, power and influence.
Four more years of legalized bribery
and served corporate interests.
Vote for Tweedle-dum or Tweedle-dee
And a framework of debate narrowed
for you courtesy
Of the ultra-rich and a media that
filters
But any voice that challenges their
power
(like Nader bounced in Boston by
state-troppers
Cos he don't speak for oil-xycoons and
bankers, oh yeah
Whose pursuit of happiness and
liberty
Demands a rhetoric of fear to be
The litmus test for viable heirs to
The phony drug-wars, the trumped-up
rogue-states, the permanence of a
war-economy).
I feel less hopeful and less human
As I'm reduced to nothing more than
Cheering on embassy bombings
As the liars pave their way through
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In your notes, please define each of the six
terms underlined, then write a paragraph
about the Party mottoes from Ch. 1 of 1984:
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
What do they mean? Why do they exist?
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War: Fight between two people/groups
Peace: Time of no violence
Freedom: Able to do/say as you please
Slavery: Put against will to do something
Ignorance: Not really knowing, being unaware
Strength: capable of being strong, stable
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2+2=4, 2+2=5
War is Peace: People must fight for peace, War abroad means peace
at home, State of war is good
 Freedom is Slavery: “Tied to gov’t” = certain extent of freedom, feels
“free” but knows he’s being watched, thinking for self=slave to
“what you think you want”
 Ignorance is Strength: ignorant public=strong gov’t, easier to
persuade, people don’t know=strong gov’t(community), fooled into
thinking you’re strong
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Please title a half
sheet “Ch. 1 & 2
Quiz” 
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
According to the Party slogan, war is what?
How many minutes are set aside to demonize the
Party’s enemies (__ Minutes Hate)?
Who was the “earliest defiler of the Party’s purity?
What kinds of things does Winston write in his diary?
How does he help his neighbor across the hall?
What injury is inflicted upon Winston by the
neighbor’s son?
What is the name of the offense for which Winston is
guilty simply by thinking of writing in his diary?
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Stalin/Hitler critique
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Danger of totalitarianism
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Strength of human spirit
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We’re starting to get a glimpse into Winston’s
views of the Party and his society.
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Write a diary entry that further explores his
feelings on the societal norms of Oceania.
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Explore what he rejects about his society, as well
as what he accepts and what he plans to do
about it.
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How might his handwriting reflect his state of
mind?
Please title a new
heading in your notes
“Newspeak in 1984”
“Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had
fallen on Colchester” (32)
Some time in the 1950s that had changed the course of
England and the west.
1.
Write down as many words as you can that you
think could be replaced by…
1.
2.
3.
“ungood” (bad)
“plusgood” (great)
doubleplusgood” (excellent)
Write out O’Brien’s Newspeak message (page
168) in modern English.
3. You have just returned to your classroom after
taking part in the Two Minutes Hate. Write a
short letter, in Newspeak, to a friend describing
your feelings.
2.
Ungood
Plusgood
Doubleplusgood
Horrible
Terrible
Devastating
Horrendous
Immoral
Grotesque
Disgusting
Sinful
Despicable
Wrong
Against
Malicious
Nasty
Satanic
ghetto
Awesome
Fabulous
Super
Amazing
Cool
Fresh
Satisfying
Watermelon
Brilliant
Swag
Perfect
Exquisite
On point
Quintessential
Wonderful
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Items 1, 5, 7 are fully approved. But, item 6
was insane, almost a criminal suggestion, and
should be canceled. Stop construction before
the machines become too expensive.
Goodbye.
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Today’s Two-Minutes Hate was
doubleplusgood feelmaking. Ungoodness
knifes through me and my doubleplusanger
makes me want to pick up a shooter and
shoot some shooties right through
Goldstein’s heart. Doubleplusgoodness to Big
Brother! He keeps all of us comrades safe!
If everyone is silent for
60 seconds after the
bell rings everyone will
get +BTS points 
Unfortunately, because
everyone was making
noise, no one will be
receiving +BTS points
Surprised? Angry? Why?
Let’s look back at the
slide posted at the
beginning of class…
System errors prevent
the awarding of +BTS
for the next 60
seconds.
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Turn: Everyone will get +BTS points for no reason 60
seconds after the bell rings
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Email from Mr. Idil: System is down, no +BTS
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into: System errors prevent the awarding of +BTS
for the next 60 seconds.
Promises from the past become warnings.
People happy, but then have no proof of
broken promises. Win for Big Brother
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the
past was brought up to date”
Therefore, Big Brother has never made a
mistake that can be proven by documentation
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Perspective/Point of View
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First Person: I, me, my, us, our
Second: You
Third Person: He, she
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 Limited: Focus on one character and his/her life,
his/her thoughts, feelings, experience
 Omniscient: Focus on multiple characters, the
whole world
Half sheet
“Ch. 5 & 6 Quiz”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
What time of the workday do Winston,
Syme, and Parsons share in chapter 5?
What does Syme do for a living?
Why does Winston think Syme will be
vaporized?
Why does Winston think Parsons will not be
vaporized?
Why do Winston and his wife separate?
What does Winston discover about the
prostitute he visits in his journal flashback?
Half sheet
“Ch. 7 Quiz”
What group does Winston think is capable of
toppling the Party?
2. Is this group more or less populous than the Party?
3. Who does Winston remember seeing at the Chestnut
Tree Café back in the ‘60s?
4. What proof does Winston remember about the
confessions given by the Jones, Aaronson, and
Rutherford?
5. What does Winston do with that evidence?
6. Who does Winston believe is still on his side at the
end of Ch. 7?
1.
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graduation forms today! They needed their
ticket count numbers in TODAY!
Who is Emmanuel Goldstein and how is he presented to
the people of Oceania?
 What is the probable significance of using the obviously
Jewish name?
 (Leader of the Brotherhood, an underground rebel
organization. He wrote the book read by Winston. He is
the object of the daily Two Minutes Hate exercise
designed to direct citizen frustration away from the
Party. Considering the fact that World War II with its
horror of the holocaust had just ended, the use of
Goldstein as a scapegoat parallels the Nazis‘ attempt to
blame their problems on the Jews.)
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If you were a citizen in 1933 Germany, how
would you feel about your government?
What options did you feel you had for
expressing opposition to this government or to
participate in it?
How do these options differ from the options
you have today in the United States?
(Same question but replace ―1933 Germany
with ―Orwell‘s 1984)
Adolf Hitler was on the verge of creating an
Orwellian-style cable TV system to broadcast
Nazi propaganda around Germany. Screens
would have been set up in public places,
including inlaundries so housewives could tune
in, according to a documentary based on papers
and tapes found in his bunker.
When the Allies overran Germany, engineers were
on the point of a technological breakthrough to
allow TV pictures to be transmitted to screens
and sound to radio receivers.
Prototype programs included Family Chronicles: An
Evening With Hans And Gelli, an early reality TV show
depicting the wholesome Aryan life of a young German
couple for the rest of the population to model
themselves on.
 Another plan was to show footage of executions of
traitors to the Nazis.
 The plans first came to light in 1945, when boxes with
tapes were found in the ruins of Berlin by Soviet
soldiers, the Russian documentary says. According to
the program, the engineer Walter Bruch was asked to
make 'people's television' a reality.
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Half sheet
“Ch. 8 Quiz”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Where does Winston go instead of his
normal, community activities?
What causes Winston to fall to the floor
once he gets there?
Winston overhears two men arguing about
the outcomes of what game?
What article of clothing is very particular to
the “capitalists” demonized by the Party?
About what does Winston want to ask the
old man he follows into a bar?
Half sheet
“Ch. 8.2 Quiz”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Why is Winston initially (at the beginning) so
frustrated with the old man?
What question does Winston realize has
become unanswerable?
To what store does Winston walk after leaving
the bar?
What new item does he buy?
What does Winston realize is important about
the bedroom above the store?
Whom does Winston see as he exits the shop?
On the back of your vocab quiz
please number 1-5
This vocab quiz will count for 13
points with 2 possible EC
points.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What does Winston notice about the girl’s arm
as she walks toward him when he’s at work?
What is written on the note she slips him when
she falls?
When does Winston finally have time to think
about his plan later that day?
Where does Winston decide is the safest place
to first meet and talk to her?
What is in the back of the trucks that pass by
Victory Square?
Half sheet
“Book 2, Ch2-3
Quiz”
What gift for Julia does Winston collect as he walks to
see her?
2. What food do the two of them share in the clearing?
3. They eventually spot a bird (a thrush). What does it
do that fascinates them?
4. Why does Winston wish Julia had slept with
thousands of men?
5. Where is the second spot they find to be alone?
6. What does Winston regret not doing to his wife in the
past when they got lost on their hike
1.
In what ways are Julia and Winston
alike?
In what ways are they different?
How does each rebel?
Half sheet
“Book 2, Ch.4-5
Quiz”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
What does Julia bring in the brown canvas bag to the
room above Mr. Charrington’s shop?
How does she change her appearance that same visit?
What is Winston’s greatest fear that appears in the
room?
What happened to Syme? (trick question)
What is the name of the one-week celebration of the
party?
Describe the new poster that has been posted all over
London.
What vehicle does is Julia surprised to learn that the
party did NOT invent?
Why does the party permit
couples to marry but discourage
love?
Why is love dangerous?
Half sheet
“Book 2, Ch.6-8
Quiz”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Who approaches Winston in the hall at his work?
Where does this person invite Winston to chat?
In Winston’s falshback, what does he steal from his baby
sister the day she disappeared?
What does O’Brien do to the telescreen?
What rare drink do they drink at their meeting?
What is the name of the organization opposing the
Party?
How does O’Brien repeatedly suggest Winston’s
involvement with the rebellion will end?
What book does O’Brien reference at the end of their
meeting?
Half sheet
“Book 2, Ch.9
Quiz”
1.
2.
3.
What changes in the middle of the Hate Week speech?
Where does Winston sleep in the week after this change?
Why does he sleep there?
4.
In a few sentences, explain Goldstein’s ideas about war in
the world of 1984.
5.
In a few sentences, explain Goldstein’s ideas about
ignorance and knowledge in the world of 1984.
Three Levels of Society:
High Class
(Educated, wealthy, powerful, smallest group)
Middle Class
(Slightly educated, consumes goods, “white collar”)
Lower Class
(Uneducated, produces goods, “blue collar,” largest group)
What SHOULD Happen:
Mechanized Production of Goods
Enjoyment of Goods
Quality of Life Increase
Education Increase
Destruction of Upper Class
Equality of all Citizens
What DOES Happen:
Mechanized Production of Goods
Enjoyment of Goods
War – Destruction of Goods
Quality of Life Increase
Education Increase
Destruction of Upper Class
Equality of all Citizens
Unwinnable
 Each nation completely
defensible
 Each nation has tons of nukes
 Each nation doesn’t want/need
new citizens (too much work)
Doublethink: the ability to believe
two contradictory things at once
(crazy)
 Lower loyalty, who cares (Proles)
 Higher loyalty= more insanity
(Inner Party)
 Intelligent (sane) people killed
Inner Party Controls
everything
Even though they call it
“publicly owned”
People think they own stuff,
unaware of their own
poverty
Half sheet
“Book 3, Ch.1
Quiz”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
What is the woman outside Winston and Julia’s
apartment always doing?
Where was the telescreen hidden in the apartment?
Where is the setting at the beginning of book 3?
Describe the first person introduced to this setting
with Winston.
What was Ampleforth’s job in the past?
Who is the third person introduced to this setting
and how did he end up there?
To what room are people being taken when they
leave this setting?
Who surprises Winston by his appearance at the end
of the chapter?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan” Invented
Romanticism with Wordsworth
quatrain – collection of 4 lines, couplet:two lines
5 groups of iambs (ba-DUM)
FIRE: freedom, imaginiation, idealism, rejection of rules,
emotion, escapism
Dramatic mon.: written from a char. perspective, shows
plot
 Browning: shows murder in fancy polite language
“Ozymandias”
Victorianism: social, economic, industrial change scared
everybody. Maintain order, give rules, address chaos
 Modernism: defined by FRAGMENTS, “Prufrock” social
anxiety, weirdness, fragments of thoughts/conversation
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Dark/twisted, upsetting/satisfying ending
definition for imagery, able to identify it
Man vs: self, society, man, nature, ?
Connect Drac to Victorianism
Totalitarianism: gov’t control of everything
war/peace, ignorance/strength, freedom/slavery
– examples of “doublethink”
 Reasons for war: scare people, wreck stuff, kill
bad guys/worrisome civilians
 Newspeak: get rid of words that encourage free
thinking
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