Unit 2: 1984 Literary Analysis

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Unit 2: 1984 Literary Analysis:

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  • Start 1984 Monday 10/19 (first day back 4 days a week + blood drive + double the students in class)
  • QUIZ PART ONE: Monday 10/26 – Read Part Two
  • QUIZ PART TWO: Monday  11/02 – Read Part Three
  • QUIZ PART THREE: Monday 11/09
  • Final Essay Due Monday 11/16

1984 Annotated Bibliography: Students will collect quotes as they read articles and 1984. This will be the backbone of their final essay for this unit.

“Modules on Foucault: On Panoptic and Carceral Society” by Dino Felluga from Purdue University.

“Principles of Newspeak” by George Orwell (This is in the appendix of your book, but some people like to have a separate PDF to read. Feel free to use the one in your text.)

You should come up with your own prompt for your Literary Analysis. However, here are some Prompt Crutches if you are stuck and need ideas. More are listed in D2L.

Here’s the Essay Rubric.

Here are some reading questions to help guide your understanding of “The Principles of Newspeak.” It’s hard language to get, but stick with it. Difficult reading = your brain is stretching to learn.

Here are 1984 Study Guide Questions. As you transition out of high school and into college, annotated bibliographies are going to be the way to go. MOST COLLEGE PROFESSORS DON’T GIVE STUDY GUIDES! So, use this to guide your reading if you still prefer an old fashioned study guide. A printed copy makes a good book mark and you can put page numbers next to where you find answers for future class discussions (ask Borg & she’ll print one for you).

Formatting Quotes: use this guide for using in-text citations in essays.

Make the Purdue OWL your new best friend for figuring out all the different ways to cite all the different kinds of text out there (they even explain how to cite YouTube folks).

Verbal Communication: This focuses on the abstract, arbitrary, and ambiguous nature of verbal language. We will use these concepts to try to understand why language is so powerful and why it’s so easy to manipulate.