Daily Lessons for Teaching 1984

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Part 1, Chapter 1 - The Party represents one of the worst possible examples of a totalitarian dictatorship; the author created this government as a warning for the people of the future. Citizens are controlled; non-conformity is punishable by death, and independent thought is not allowed. Totalitarianism has always been a presence in the world. It exists in many different forms. The objective of...
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