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January 16-20. 1984. This week…. M - MLK Holiday T- Essay/MC practice W - Control, persuasive writing R - Newspeak, Ingsoc F -. Tuesday, January 17 (morning). Multiple Choice practice Sample Exam 1, numbers 1-25. Tuesday, January 17 (afternoon). Persuasive essay Remember:
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January 16-20 1984
This week… • M- MLK Holiday • T- Essay/MC practice • W- Control, persuasive writing • R- Newspeak, Ingsoc • F-
Tuesday, January 17(morning) • Multiple Choice practice • Sample Exam 1, numbers 1-25
Tuesday, January 17 (afternoon) • Persuasive essay • Remember: • Broad introduction • Clear thesis statement • LOTS of specific details • Make it personal • Short conclusion
Wednesday, January 18 • Word • Analysis • Control • Reading assignment • Homework
Word of the Day • Adulation (n.) flattery or admiration, sometimes excessive • add-jew-LAY-shun or add-juh-LAY-shun • I love open house because parents heap adulation upon me for inspiring their children.
Analysis (DIDLS practice) Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then—the glory—so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished. And I guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories. It is a lonely thing but it relates us to the world. (From East of Eden)
1984 Essential Questions • What are the Party’s primary means of control? • What role does language play in the novel? • How is Winston Smith an appropriate hero for this story? • In what ways is the U.S. government similar to the Party?
Control… • Initial takeover • Slow process, began with worldwide nuclear war • “Stagnation” of capitalism • Promise of equality
Physical Control… • Surveillance (thought police, telescreens) • Poverty (lack of resources) • Threat of violence/death • Anti-sex league
Emotional Control… • FEAR (surveillance, arrest, torture, confession) • Love (Big Brother) • Hatred (Goldstein, Eastasia, Eurasia) • Patriotism (propaganda, racism) • Limitation of emotion (Newspeak, destruction of family, Anti-sex league)
Intellectual Control… • Doublethink • Changing of the past • Indoctrination • Confusion • Propaganda • Newspeak
Permanent Control • No centralization • Poverty/inequality • Perpetual war • “Brotherhood” • Newspeak
Persuasive writing • Thesis statement • Address the prompt • Avoid generalizations • LOTS of details • To vs. Too • That vs. Who
Reading assignment • 50 days remaining • Books? • Questions?
Homework • On the blog, describe at least one way that the United States government resembles The Party. • www.duncole.weebly.com
Thursday, January 19 • Word • AP booklets • Essays (1-3) • Newspeak
Word of the Day • Macabre (adj.) gruesome, sickening • ma-KAHB or ma-KAH-bruh • Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre stories of violence and death continue to thrill readers today.
AP Booklets • Sign the paper • Make any corrections necessary • Essays (morning)
Newspeak • Read the passage provided • Is there some good to this idea of simplifying language? • How is it also a bad thing to eliminate words? • How is language tied to obedience?
Reading Assignment • 49 days • Questions?
Homework • On the blog, describe at least one way that the United States government resembles The Party. • www.duncole.weebly.com
Friday, January 20 • Word • Q&A • Government control
Word of the Day • Emulate (v.) to copy or mimic • IM-you-late • People who choose to emulate the dangerous behavior they see on TV deserve to be injured.
Vocab quiz (1-26-12) • Acqueisce • Faux pas • Blackguard • Hedonism • Prosaic • Egregious • Aesthetic • Adulation • Macabre • Emulate
Q&A • Write down at least 3 questions you have about 1984 • You may ask about plot, characters, theme…
Government control • PATRIOT Act • SOPA/PIPA • FCC • Patriotism (Uncle Sam=Big Brother) • www.bigbrothergovernment.wordpress.com
Reading project • 48 days remaining • Do you have your book?