Your focus over the holiday break should be on completing your reading of our core text, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Thursday 26 March: Read, Write, Reflect
After yesterday’s excellent conference, we’re all in a good place to move forward. Here’s today’s plan.
Task: Select a Quotation and expand on its effect.
In spite of being the author of the quotation "Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane." Orwell's writing is rich with grammatical complexity and textured imagery. After I provided and explained an exemplar of how to approach the use of a quotation -...
Nineteen Eighty-Four: How to handle a quotation
An exemplar demonstrating one way of producing the analysis required in relation to any self-selected quotation from the text.
Novel Study: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
NCEA 3.1: Respond critically to specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence