Month: April 2019
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Exploring the Text
How does Nineteen Eighty-Four help us to define the genre “Dystpian Literary Fiction”?
The Death of Truth
These are the articles we will read in class about some of the historical antecedents to Nineteen Eighty-Four [google-drive-embed url=”https://drive.google.com/a/edutronic.net/file/d/1l_zuOpEAdjqoL2kbVqQwcdIlGp–oM06/preview?usp=drivesdk” title=”Death of truth: when propaganda and ‘alternative facts’ first gripped the world | Media | …
Nineteen Eighty-Four Further Reading
Further reading to enhance your appreciation of the dystopian Genre. Use the links to download a copy onto your phone and computer so you can read these (or at least one of them) at your leisure.
Task: Select a Quotation and expand on its effect.
In spite of being the author of the quotation “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.” Orwell’s writing is rich with grammatical complexity and textured imagery. After I provided and explained an exemplar of …