This is week one of your Feature Article writing assessment. You will work independently on these articles during your English periods this week.
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Weekly Plan – Term Two, Week Four
This week we develop your individual plans for your Feature Article. We define Dystopia and look at resonance between Nineteen Eighty-Four and our world today.
Weekly Plan – Term Two, Week Three
This week we continue our analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four. We will discover Feminist Literary Theory and I’ll introduce you to the outline for your Feature Article.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Research Project – Exploring Beyond the Text
This week we are going to engage in a short research project in order to shore up some of our knowledge around the periods that Nineteen Eighty-Four covers. This is all in pursuit of the key inquiry: how does Nineteen Eighty-Four help us to define the genre “Dystpian Literary Fiction”?
Weekly Plan – Term Two, Week Two
This week we continue our analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four. We will expand our exploration of Marxist Literary Theory and you’ll be asked to work with another student to develop a presentation looking into an aspect of the context of the novel.
Apple: You’ll see why 1984 won’t be like “1984”
This advertisement, aired during the Super Bowl in 1984 shows Apple’s advertising agency tapping into the Cold War anxieties about totalitarianism to present it’s new computer products. How does this ad appear to us now Apple has become one of the world’s largest multinational companies?
Weekly Plan – Term Two, Week One
This week we begin our analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four in Earnest. We explore the historical contexts of the novel, you will be introduced to Marxist Literary Theory and we will examine opportunities for further reading.
Literary Theories: Marxism
An introduction to Marxist criticism including a starting sample of ‘what Marxist literary critics do’
Nineteen Eighty-Four: An Historical Context
Fragments of historical information to put into context the social/historical norms at the time George Orwell wrote “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
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.