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