1: Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel Project
This project is recommended for all AICE students. Other students are welcome, also.
Learning Intention:
Read the literary classic novel by George Orwell and explore important thematic elements in written essay responses.
Weekly Grading Success Criteria:
Assignment completion, deadlines, quality, use of class time, and self-guided work.
All work will be submitted to the “Shared Folder” in ONE ongoing document.
Learning Intention:
Read the literary classic novel by George Orwell and explore important thematic elements in written essay responses.
Weekly Grading Success Criteria:
Assignment completion, deadlines, quality, use of class time, and self-guided work.
All work will be submitted to the “Shared Folder” in ONE ongoing document.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This project requires students have access to the printed version of the novel.
About the novel:
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.
