Nineteen-Eighty-Four: Student work booklet

A 30-page booklet designed for Grade 12 students studying George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four.

It includes:
• a character map,
• a list of themes, motifs, symbols, moral issues
• a series of graphic organisers for students to organise their notes about 6 themes, 6 specified symbols,
• a table to record noticeable values, attitudes, beliefs and cultural assumptions
• a place to record important terms (glossary) including: newspeak terms; context terms; unfamiliar terms
• a table to record key details about each character and several important settings (names pre filled)
• a diagram showing the societal structure of Oceania
• a table to record the purpose of each of the four ministries
• places to record significant aesthetic features and stylistic devices (language features & text structures)
• a set of chapter questions for all 3 ‘books’ and post reading questions and activities

Teaching tip: to save on printing, the chapter questions can be removed and added to a Class One Note / other online location.

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.