Support the development of close reading skills with this worksheet composed of challenging questions designed to help high school students analyze George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Featuring a brief passage about Parsons’s pitiful loyalty to the Party from Book 3, chapter 1, this resource saves teachers valuable time at home without sacrificing rigor in the classroom. An answer key is provided. Materials are delivered as printable Word Documents and PDFs.
This resource may serve as the basis for small-group discussions. Through these discussions, students decode language and pose/respond to questions relating to plot, broad topics, and character development, demonstrating an ability to analyze how complex characters transform and advance the plot and themes by applying logic and citing compelling, meaningful textual evidence. They will also evaluate their peers’ reasoning and use of rhetoric to advance claims, clarifying or challenging unclear ideas. Using this resource for structured guidance, students, ultimately, will present information, conclusions, and supporting textual evidence clearly, concisely, and appropriately, thereby helping their peers comprehend their thinking.
By engaging with this resource, students will:
- Identify what the text says both explicitly and implicitly
- Define complex words and phrases in context
- Analyze textual details to discern which literary device is applied (oxymoron and situational irony)
- Articulate Parsons’s beliefs concerning what makes thoughtcrime so dangerous
- Analyze the author’s word choices to discern what they reveal about a character
- Articulate how Parsons evaluates his effectiveness as a father
- Identify and explain textual evidence that contribute to Parsons’s pitiful characterization
- Discern a primary function of the excerpt
- Articulate how the excerpt illustrates the Party’s success in terms of restricting human emotions and complicating human relationships
- Write with clarity and precision
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