Nineteen Eighty-four: Texts and Human Experiences Nineteen Eighty-four Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Linking the text to Module C: The Craft of Writing ………………………………………….. 6 Acknowledgements …………………………………………………………………………….. 6 Using the resource ……………………………………………………………………………... 7 THE COMMON MODULE What you need to know and do ………………………………………………………………. 8 Questions arising ………………………………………………………………………………. 10 Common Module vocabulary applied to the prescribed text ………………………………. 11 CONTEXT Context and purpose ………………………………………………………………………….. 14 About George Orwell ………………………………………………………………………….. 16 Orwell’s concerns ……………………………………………………………………………… 17 Contextual influences on the ‘storytelling’ of Nineteen Eighty Four ……………………… 18 A timeline of Orwell’s life experiences ………………………………………………………. 19 FORM AND STYLE …………………………………………………………………………………….. 24 READING Active reading and annotation of the novel ………………………………………………… 25 Pre-reading: some BIG questions …………………………………………………………… 26 VISIBLE THINKING PROTOCOLS Protocol B: ‘Headlines’ ……………………………………………………………………….. 27 Protocol C: Generate-elaborate-sort-connect (Concept map) …………………………… 28 Glossary building - suggested protocol ……………………………………………………. 29 PART 1 Chapter 1- The experience of rebellion begins ……………………………………………………… 30 Activity: ‘Two minutes Hate’ QTM table (quote, technique, meaning) …………………... 32 Differentiating between ‘experiences’, ‘human qualities’ and ‘emotions’ ……………….. 33 Thinking routine: Step inside ………………………………………………………………… 34 Crafting: Understanding introductions and dystopian fiction …………………………….. 35 Crafting: Imaginative writing …………………………………………………………………. 36 Listening activity …......................................................................................................... 36 Setting ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 36 Activity: Digitally mapping Winston’s experience of rebellion ……………………………. 37 Chapter 2 – Life in Airstrip One ……………………………………………………………………….. 38 Crafting: Writing persuasively ……………………………………………………………….. 38 Routine: See-think-wonder …………………………………………………………………... 39 Chapter 3 – Memory, history, truth and lies ………………………………………………………….. 40 Chapter 4 – Winston’s experience of work …………………………………………………………… 40 Crafting: Understanding persuasive and imaginative writing …………………………….. 41 Chapter 5 – Newspeak and the importance of language …………………………………………… 43 Chapter 6 – Sexuality and desire ……………………………………………………………………… 43 Chapter 7 – Hope in the proles & Winston’s heresy …………………………………………………. 43 Chapter 8 – Winston visits the prole quarters, finds his future lovers’ nest ……………………….. 44 Additional commentary on Part 1 ……………………………………………………………………… 46 PART 2 Chapter 1 – The affair begins …………………………………………………………………………… 47 Chapter 2 – The experience of physical intimacy …………………………………………………….. 48 Routine: Connect-extend-challenge ………………………………………………………….. 49 Language and Orwell …………………………………………………………………………... 50 Chapter 3 – Julia’s life experiences, Winston’s estranged wife ……………………………………… 51 Chapter 4 – Winston’s feelings for Julia deepen ………………………………………………………. 52 Nineteen Eighty-four: Texts and Human Experiences Routine: Microlab protocol ………………………………………………………………………. 53 What about the motifs? …………………………………………………………………………. 54 Chapter 5 – Hate Week, nationalism, Winston’s health improves …………………………………… 55 Routine: Compass points ………………………………………………………………………. 56 Routine: What makes you say that? …………………………………………………………… 57 Chapter 6 – Winston’s experience of rebellion intensifies ……………………………………………. 58 Chapter 7 – Winston’s experiences a vivid dream …………………………………………………….. 58 Crafting: time shifts ……………………………………………………………………………… 59 Chapter 8 – Winston and Julia’s meeting with O’Brien ……………………………………………….. 59 Routine: What makes you say that? …………………………………………………………... 60 Chapter 9 – The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism ………………………………….. 61 Chapter 10 – Winston and Julia are arrested ………………………………………………………….. 62 Routine: Sentence-phrase-word ……………………………………………………………….. 63 QTM ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 64 PART 3 Chapter 1 – The experience of imprisonment …………………………………………………………. 65 Chapter 2 – The experience of physical and psychological torture …………………………………. 65 Routine: Microlab protocol ……………………………………………………………………… 67 Activity: Tyrannies of the past ………………………………………………………………….. 68 Chapter 3 – Pure power ………………………………………………………………………………….. 69 Chapter 4 – Winston still hates the Party, loves Julia ………………………………………………… 70 Chapter 5 – Winston’s destruction, his betrayal of Julia ……………………………………………… 70 Chapter 6 – The individual experience of utter defeat ………………………………………………… 70 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn …………………………………………………………………………. 71 Crafting: Persuasive, discursive and imaginative writing …………………………………… 71 Routine: Colour–symbol–image ……………………………………………………………….. 72 Colour-image-symbol - Sample Grid – Individual experiences …………………………….. 73 Colour-image-symbol - Sample Grid – Collective experiences …………………………….. 75 ‘Wrap up’ protocol for Parts 1, 2 and 3 ………………………………………………………... 76 CHARACTERS ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 78 LANGUAGE Language in the novel ………………………………………………………………………….. 80 ‘Politics and the English language’ and Nineteen Eighty-four ……………………………… 82 Orwell on writing ………………………………………………………………………………… 83 Language study through Nineteen Eighty-four extracts ……………………………………. 85 Connecting with Module C …………………………………………………………………….. 90 Developing an informed personal understanding …………………………………………… 92 RELATED TEXTS Choosing a related text ………………………………………………………………………… 93 Writing on a related text ……………………………………………………………………….. 94 ESSAY QUESTIONS ……………………………………………………………………………………. 104 APPENDICES Student FAQs …………………………………………………………………………………… 107 Character template …………………………………………………………………………….. 110 Study notes template ………………………………………………………………………….. 111 More collective and Individual experiences …………………………………………………. 116 Quiz: Context and vocabulary ………………………………………………………………… 117 Context table ……………………………………………………………………………………. 118 Structure table ………………………………………………………………………………….. 119 .