Nineteen-Eighty Four: Lesson unpacking Book 1, Chapters 1-5

A PowerPoint presentation designed for use in a Grade 12 English class.

It includes:
• A summary of Chapter 1 and screen shots from the movie to illustrate key characters and locations
• Important things to note about chapter 1
• Notes about how Orwell developed the setting (including quotes)
• Information about surveillance and the ministries
• Details about the protagonist Winston Smith and his diary
• Important people that we meet in this chapter – Julia and O’Brien
• The small distractions available to citizens – Victory Gin & Victory Cigarettes
• The answers to the Ch 1 questions in the student work booklet (also available in my store)
• A summary of Chapter 2 (including info about the junior spies)
• Information about Hitler Youth (who were likely the inspiration for the junior spies in the novel)
• Answers to the Ch 2 questions
• A summary of Chapter 3
• Information about the Panopticon (18th Century) which may have influenced Orwell
• Answers to the Ch 3 questions
• A summary of Chapter 4
• Answers to Ch 4 questions
• A summary of Chapter 5
• Answers to Ch 5 questions
• A map showing Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia
• Some character profiles (to check what information students have located thus far)

Resources designed for the new senior General English syllabus (implemented in QLD in 2019). The syllabus objectives would also be useful more broadly for English students in other states and countries with an interest in this text.