Honors English 11

Please read ONE of the two texts listed below and then another text of your choice. 

For your choice text please choose from the 2025 Nutmeg Nominee List. 

For the texts listed below, you need to take notes on important plot points, character development, and most impactful quotes from either 1984 or Pride and Prejudice, depending upon with text you choose. These must be handwritten notes. A paragraph asking about the themes of the assigned reading will be given in class once Chromebooks are dispersed. 

Text Option 1: 1984 by George Orwell 

 “Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written” (Goodreads.com).

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Text Option 2: Pride and Prejudice

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Thus memorably begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the world's most popular novels. Pride and Prejudice--Austen's own 'darling child'--tells the story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennett, one of five sisters who must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy. What ensues is one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships known to literature, written by a precocious Austen when she was just twenty-one years old. Humorous and profound, and filled with highly entertaining dialogue, this witty comedy of manners dips and turns through drawing-rooms and plots to reach an immensely satisfying finale. In the words of Eudora Welty, Pride and Prejudice is as 'irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be” (Goodreads.com).