1984

Primary Sources:

• Music to listen to while you read: Click here

• Free, full online text of this book: Click here

• Quotes compiled from this book: Click here

• Quotes compiled from this author: Click here

• Quotes about this book/author: Click here

• Audio recording on Youtube: Click here

Classroom Sources:

Supplemental Sources:

Supplementals:

• Reading Options for Canvas: Link

• Politics and the English Language: Click here

• Introduction to 1984 by George Orwell: Click here

• Chapter by Chapter AP Review questions: Click here

  • Response to Orwell by LA Times: Click here

• World Map of 1984: Click here

• George Orwell and the Politics of the English Language: Click here

• Documentary from the Great Books on 1984: Click here

• Excerpts from Orwell's essay, "Notes on Nationalism": Link

• Other Dystopian Novels:

  • Brave New World: Click here

  • Fahrenheit 451

  • The Handmaid's Tale

  • Anthem: Click here

• Believe Me, It's Torture article by Christopher Hitchens: Click here

• Teacher AP Website for 1984: Click here

Short Stories:

• The Lottery: Click here

  • Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut: Click here

Current Events:

• WikiLeaks and the CIA Hacking Scandal: Click here

• CIA spying on US citizens with their personal devices: Click here

• If Robots Run the World...: Click here

  • North Korean Propaganda Posters 2013:

    • a. Click here

    • b. Click here

  • The Cost and Benefits of Video Surveillance in light of the Boston Marathon Bombers: Click Here

    • We Need More Cameras and We need them Now

    • In Boston Our Bloated Surveillance State Didn't Work

    • In Praise of Surveillance Cameras

    • SUMMARY: Op-Ed piece of articles 1-3:Click here.

  • Salman Rushdie on Moral Courage and Defying Authority: Click here

  • Banned Books and the Power of Twitter: Click here

• NSA documents released? Probably not...Click here

• Why Teens Love Dystopian Fiction: Click here

• Poems on Surveillance from the Paris Review: Click here

• Huey Lewis' song, Perfect World: Click here

• Let's Go to Dystopia (article about popularity of dystopia): Click here

• Interesting video with 1984 connections to Donald Trump's use of the media and his relationship to the press: Click here

• Donald Trump's Seven Techniques to Control the Media: Click here

• Orwellian Language and the Trump Administration's Stance on Climate Change: Click here

• Bakersfield Californian article on 1984 selling out on Amazon the week of Trump's inauguration: Click here

• Tech Insider: "How Smartphones Will Be Used to Control Our Minds": Click here

• India's Biometric Database and the Dystopian Future: Click here

• "War is Peace" 1984 Party Slogan in a Trump Tweet: Click here

• Buying fast food and toilet paper with your face: Click here

• Facebook Ads Targeting Users: Click here

• Jordan Peele's AI Obama Warning Against Fake News (adult language warning!): Click here

• Ex-Facebook Executive: "You don't know it but you are being programmed": Click here

• Fake News Statement/Propaganda: Click here

  • Trump Tweet Response: Click here

• Vice News: Google will not stop "Deepfake" videos of Melania Trump: Click here

• The Strange Benefits of Living in a Surveillance State (this is NOT the Onion): Click here

• Facial Recognition Glasses being used by Chinese police: Click here

• Chinese App that allows you to see your neighbor's debt on a map, using shame to promote financial responsibility: Link

• Stockdale installed cameras on February 6, 2019. No news story, just interesting...

• Article describing how Germany rewrote history and its effects: Link

• Your TV and Phone are Tracking You, and Political Campaigns are Listening In: Link

• Chinese "Behavior Monitoring" System that gives citizens a point system based on their behavior and limits certain freedoms based on their behavior: Link

• Facebook "accidentally" leaves Big Brother Easter Eggs in Virtual Reality release: Link

• Acceptable News Organizations for Current Events:

  • National Public Radio (NPR)

  • The New York Times

  • Wall Street Journal

  • The New Yorker

  • Time Magazine

  • The Atlantic

  • CNN

This commercial, released by Apple computers in the year 1984, uses techniques from the novel, 1984, to sell its capitalist, materialistic, and world-dominating machine. Oh, the irony.

1984 Sparknotes Video Summary