TODAY IN CLASS
Students received and worked on a set of "easy questions" on Part III (called Chapter III on the hand-out). The point is not to do these for credit; the purpose was to help individual students assess their learning/understanding of the book. We discussed several of the ideas in class, and will do a few more tomorrow. You should be able to back up your responses with textual details.
FOR TOMORROW
Start reviewing the text, and extend your thinking about the last question on the hand-out involving THEME. First, make sure that you can cast whatever you wrote originally as a statement/claim/assertion--not just a topic or subject area. And I think we can all agree that Orwell believes that totalitarian governments are bad, and he does not want England to become such a thing. Try to probe more deeply than that, and come up with 2 or 3 possible themes of the text.
Tomorrow's discussion will be grounded in the meaning of the work as a whole, and I will give you a short list of terms to study for Thursday. For starters, the terms crimestop, blackwhite, and double-think will definitely be included; look at the definitions, rationales, and examples given in Goldstein's text as a starting point for them.
Friday's post had a schedule for this week, if you missed it.
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