Monday, 25 February 2013

Reading Routine

Reading Routine for 1984:



Ch.
pages
Sample activities
Part 1
1
3 – 22
Week 1
1.     Setting up blog: site for journal and all classwork / preps
2.     What do we know about Nineteen Eighty-Four today?
3.     Starting to read
4.     Characterisation
5.     Orwell’s use of language to create setting

2
22 – 31

3
31 -39

4
40 – 50

5
51 – 66

6
66 – 72

7
72 – 84
Week 2
1.     Updating blog
2.     Analysis of a key paragraph: style
3.     Reader’s expectations
4.     Manuscript studies
5.     Totalitarian regimes

8
85 – 107
Part 2
1
111 – 123

2
123 – 133

3
133 – 143

4
143 – 154

5
154 – 163

6
164 – 167
Week 3
1.     Updating blog
2.     ‘A Capsule in Time’ tie-in: dystopian fiction

7
167 – 174

8
174 – 186

9
186 – 227

10
227 – 234
Part 3
1
237 – 251

2
251 – 273
Week 4
1.     Updating blog
2.     Reviews: character, plot, moral
3.     Pastiche / transformative response
4.     Archive: Orwell at Wellington
5.     Present blogs

3
273 – 287

4
287 – 295

5
295 – 300

6
300 – 311
Appendix

312 - 326