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Mar 28, 2020 | 3.1 Novel Study, Daily Lesson Outline, Dystopian Fiction, Reading

Your focus over the holiday break should be on completing your reading of our core text, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Task: Select a Quotation and expand on its effect.

Task: Select a Quotation and expand on its effect.

Mar 19, 2020 | 3.1 Novel Study, Dystopian Fiction, Reading

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 -...

Novel Study: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Novel Study: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Mar 9, 2020 | 3.1 Novel Study, 3.4 Writing Portfolio, 3.5 Propaganda Speech, Dystopian Fiction, Reading, Speaking, Writing

NCEA 3.1: Respond critically to specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence

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Thoughtcrime: Course Outline

Thoughtcrime: Course Outline

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Choosing Thoughtcrime as your English programme for Level 3 means that you probably find the darker, more dystopian aspects of world literature attractive; you’re somehow inexorably drawn to the unusual and deep down you sense that something is rotten in the state of…

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Podcast: Postcard from Russia

Podcast: Postcard from Russia

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Here are the website posts mentioned in this week's podcast: Grammar of Satire – A Postcard from Russia Grammar of Satire – Trident, by Frankie Boyle Grammar of Satire – Writing Task

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Abigail’s Practice Exam Response – 3.1 Written Texts

Abigail’s Practice Exam Response – 3.1 Written Texts

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Nineteen Eighty-Four Type Up - Mock Exam 2020 Statement #4: The most significant texts are cautionary tales “The best books are those that tell us what we already know.” Written by George Orwell in his dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four, this idea of literature presenting...

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