Whether you're new to using Nineteen Eighty Four in the classroom or you're an Orwell veteran, the materials in this teacher's guide are a valuable addition to your curriculum. The suggested activities prompt readers to create a newspeak dictionary, act out scenes from the story, or create recordings of Winston's secret diary.

Concepts

george orwell, dystopian literature, utopia, 1984, book studies

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use questions for full-call discussions, as a focus for group work or independent reading, or as essay prompts
  

Classroom Considerations

• Page numbers refer to the Signet Classic edition of the novel
• The 10-page guide includes before, while, and after reading questions and activities

Pros

• Includes an extensive annotated bibliography of books with related themes
• Answers for the discussion questions are included

Cons

• None