January 9-13

1. January 9-13 1984

2. This week… • M- Essay/MC practice • T-1984 quiz, essential questions, DIDLS • W- 1984 notes, DIDLS • R- Newspeak, “persuasion,” DIDLS • F- Ingsoc, writing workshop

3. Monday, January 9 (morning) • Persuasive essay • Remember: • Broad introduction • Clear thesis statement • LOTS of specific details • Make it personal • Short conclusion

4. Monday, January 9(afternoon) • Multiple Choice practice • Sample Exam 1, numbers 1-25

5. Tuesday, January 10 • 1984 quiz • Word • DIDLS • Essential questions • Reading assignment

6. Word of the Day • Hedonism (n.) morality based on a devotion to pleasure and happiness • HEED-uh-nism • Some people are offended by the “sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll” philosophy of hedonism in the 1960s, but I am more troubled by the disregard for hygiene.

7. DIDLS-Details • OPINIONS- Specifics the author includes about facts • SELECTION- Look carefully at what details are included and those that are not included. • ORGANIZATION- Also be aware of the way details are arranged; is there a particular order that suggests importance? • QUALITY- Details say a lot about a speaker: are they accurate or reasonable? Scientific or specific? Simple or complex?

8. My Spanish isn`t good enough “Elena” I remember how I`d smile by Pat Mora Listening my little ones Understanding every word they´d say, Their jokes, their songs, their plots. Vamos a pedirle dulces a mama. Vamos. But that was in Mexico. Now my children go to American High Schools. They speak English. At night they sit around the Kitchen table, laugh with one another. I stand at the stove and feel dumb, alone. I bought a book to learn English. My husband frowned, drank more beer. My oldest said, 'Mama, he doesn´t want you to Be smarter than he is.' I´m forty, Embarrassed at mispronouncing words, Embarrassed at the laughter of my children, The grocer, the mailman. Sometimes I take my English book and lock myself in the bathroom, say the thick words softly, for if I stop trying, I will be deaf when my children need my help.

9. 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?

10. Reading assignment • 58 days remaining • Books? • Questions?

11. Wednesday, January 11 • Word • DIDLS • 1984 notes

12. Word of the Day • prosaic (adj.) straightforward, ordinary, lacking imagination • pro-ZAY-ick • Johnny wanted to do something fun for his birthday, but his parents threw a prosaic party with a few balloons and a cake from the store.

13. Artificial Bombastic Colloquial Concrete Connotative Cultured Detached Emotional Esoteric Euphemistic Exact Figurative Formal Grotesque Homespun Idiomatic Jargon Learned DIDLS-Language

14. DIDLS-Language RHETORICAL STRATEGIES • Rhetorical Question • Euphemism • Aphorism • Repetition • Restatement • Irony • Allusion • Paradox

15. All through his interrogation, although he had never seen him, he had had the feeling that O’Brien was at his elbow, just out of sight. It was O’Brien who was directing everything. It was he who set the guards onto Winston and who prevented them from killing him. It was he who decided when Winston should scream with pain, when he should have a respite, when he should be fed, when he should sleep, when the drugs would be pumped into his arm. It was he who asked the questions and suggested the answers. He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend.

16. 1984 Notes-Orwell • Real name: Eric Arthur Blair • Born in Bengal (1903) • Raised and educated in England • Excellent student but did not go to university • Joined Indian Imperial Police (1921) • Quit and returned to England (1928)

17. Orwell • Very poor for a long time • Taught school, but health forced him to quit • Wounded in the Spanish Civil War • Supported himself by writing book reviews until WWII • During war, he worked for BBC

18. Orwell • Anti-fascist and anti-communist • Called himself “democratic socialist” • Published anti-Stalinist book Animal Farm in 1945 • Wrote 1984 in Scotland between 1946-1949 • Original title: The Last Man in Europe • Died of TB in 1950

19. Orwell • “He chose a pen name that stressed his deep, lifelong affection for the English tradition and countryside: George is the patron saint of England (and George V was monarch at the time), while the River Orwell in Suffolk was one of his most beloved English sites”

20. 1984-Context • Rise of Communism and Fascism in Europe and Russia • Corruption of British media, particularly war propaganda • Beginning of the end of British “empire”

21. 1984-Themes • Totalitarianism • Language • Control of history • Individual liberty • Humanism

22. 1984-Tragedy • Begins in media res (in the middle of things) • Hero has a “tragic flaw”, something that will lead to his downfall • Actions largely based on fate instead of free will • Hero dies (in this case figuratively)

23. 1984-Symbols • Big Brother • Goldstein • Diary • Paperweight • Newspeak • Telescreen • Room 101

24. 1984-Hero • Winston Smith • “Everyman” • Limited intelligence and physical prowess • Represents the common man and the need for individual freedom

25. 1984-Hero’s journey • Desire: Freedom, knowledge • Weakness: Fear • Incitement: Buying the diary • Ally: Julia, O’Brien, Charrington • Opponents: O’Brien, Charrington • Conflict: Struggle to escape oppression • Self-knowledge: He loved Big Brother

26. Reading Assignment • 57 days • Questions?

27. Thursday, January 10 • Word • DIDLS • Control

28. Word of the Day • Egregious- (adj.) outrageous or shocking in degree • e-GREE-juss • Savanna’s egregious disregard for deer life made her crime especially horrifying.

29. Control… • Divide into groups of 3-4 • Imagine that you have taken over a country • You must find a way to ensure that all citizens obey your whims • Establish a system of control that ensures complete obedience • You may “borrow” from 1984, but try to come up with some original ideas

30. Control… • Keep in mind that there are many ways to make people obey • Brute force is not good enough • Consider differences in age, gender, culture, religion, class, education, etc.

31. Control… • On a sheet of paper, explain: • I. The initial takeover • II. Physical control • III. Emotional control • IV. Intellectual control • V. Permanent control

32. Friday, January 6 • Word • DIDLS (Syntax) • Control

33. Word of the Day • Aesthetic (adj.) Relating to art, style, or beauty • us-THET-ick or ehs-THET-ick • The aesthetic quality of my classroom is a direct result of my exquisite taste in form and color.

34. DIDLS-Syntax • Sentence length • Sentence beginnings • Arrangement of ideas in a sentence • Arrangement of ideas in a paragraph • Sentence patterns or forms, such as…

35. Sentence forms • a. Declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory • b. Simple, compound, complex, compound- complex • c. periodic, loose • d.   balanced sentence • e.    Natural order, Inverted order, Split order • f.   Juxtaposition • g.   Parallel structure (parallelism) • h.   Repetition • i.    Rhetorical question

36. “No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive. His own truth, and his own work to achieve it in his own way. A symphony, a book, an engine, a philosophy, an airplane, or a building—that was his goal and his life. Not those who heard, read, operated, believed, flew or inhabited the thing he had created. The creation, not its users. The creation, not the benefits others derived from it. The creation which gave form to his truth. He held his truth above all things and against all men.” • From The Fountainhead

37. Control… • Presentations

38. Control… • How does the Party accomplish these? • I. The initial takeover • II. Physical control • III. Emotional control • IV. Intellectual control • V. Permanent control