April 24/25

1. Vocab quiz 1

2. When you're finished, read the attached poem until everyone is done. Annotate it.

3. Discuss "Unknown Citizen" by WH Auden

4. Discuss novel

• Why is it important that 85% of the population were proles?
• What do you make of the quote: "Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago. Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved" (Orwell 74)?
• What do you make of the quote on page 80?
• Why have a lottery with no winner?
• Is it true today that solitude is frowned upon?
• Is everyone expected today to work, eat, and sleep and spend all other time in social settings?
• What do you think about Charrington's shop and the piece he bought? What about the room with no telescreen?
• Do you think the girl was really folowing him?

5. Read

Homework: read book 2, chapter 1...read pages 105-117