Week 17 - HAPPY NEW YEAR

1984 by George Orwell

Written in 1949, George Orwell'a dystopic novel 1984 has always been a book of high interest; but, never before have its eerie details seemed more accurate and relevant in today's society of technology, surveillance and suspicion. In our post-9/11 world, everyone seems to be watching someone else and some believe the government gains more power every day. Reading 1984 will provide a venue for a variety of topics; it will open a door through which you will learn about totalitarian rule, control and power. Orwell show us how language can be manipulated and how history can be revised or erased. There are areas of the text that are sexual and violent in nature, and the overall mood of the novel is, to say to least, incredibly somber.

Why did Orwell write the book? To show us what the world would be like and to warn us.

Check out the 1984 PowerPoint located to the left side of the Blog under DOCUMENTS.

Please keep pace with the readings and the in-class discussions. Your insight to those discussions and the timed writings will determine your success...do not be parasitic in the classroom...you owe it to your peers to contribute...take a RISK!

Have a great week and remember, be empathetic to each other and work diligently...I always notice!! Smile, too!

READING SCHEDULE FOR 1984 and OTHER DATES:

CH I-III for Mon., January 7
CH IV-VI for Wed., January 9
Finish BOOK 1 for Monday, January 14

Independent Reading Assessment is scheduled for Friday, Jan 18.
Poetry Professor is scheduled for Friday, Jan 11 and Thursday, Jan 17.

Here are your assignments/Agenda for Week 17:

Week 17 MS Word

Week 17 pdf

If you have questions about these assignments, please leave a comment or email me directly. Remember, I will check the blog until 9:59 pm. You know I need my Seinfeld fix.

Week 16

AP Talk

Hello my AP students. The focus this week is to talk more about the AP exam. We will practice taking the multiple choice and look at the prose part to the exam. When we get back from Christmas break, we will attack Orwell's 1984. Continue to read your works of literary merit independently. The quarter is ending....meaning an assessment is on the horizon.

I want to extend a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!

Here are your assignments/Agenda for Week 16:

Week 16 MS Word

Week 16 pdf

If you have questions about these assignments, please leave a comment or email me directly. Remember, I will check the blog until 9:59 pm. You know I need my Seinfeld fix.

Week 15

Othello


Here are your assignments/Agenda for Week 15:

Week 15 MS Word

Week 15 pdf

If you have questions about these assignments, please leave a comment or email me directly. Remember, I will check the blog until 9:59 pm. You know I need my Seinfeld fix.

Week 14

Othello

Our goal this week is to put closure to perhaps the most moving of Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello. We encountered one of his vilest villans, one of his purest heroines, and of course, one of his most tragic protagonists. The beauty of reading Shakespeare is that the works crystallize for us the problems of love and death, passion and betrayal, jealousy and nostalgia, power and temporality, memory and imagination...what is our alternative? If we do not read Shakespeare, how will we come to know what we already understand?

Here are your assignments/Agenda for Week 14:

Week 14 MS Word

Week 14 pdf

If you have questions about these assignments, please leave a comment or email me directly. Remember, I will check the blog until 9:59 pm. You know I need my Seinfeld fix.