Monday, February 13, 2012
Registration
Sophomore registration begins today, and is due on Friday. Please make sure you get teacher signatures on your schedules so you are placed in the correct classes your junior year. If you have questions or concerns, please see me or stop by and talk to your counselor.
CAUTION!!
Sophomores, please check your class schedules CAREFULLY! First and third period schedules are different. Check the blog frequently to make sure you are prepared for your class period.
We're Being Tested
Just a quick reminder that the testing schedule is as follows:
1st PeriodTuesday, February 14: Practice Test in room 222
Wednesday, February 15: Begin MyAccess in room 222
Thursday, February 16: Finish MyAccess in room 222
Friday, February 17: Begin CRT testing in room 222
Monday, February 20: No school
Tuesday, February 21: CRT testing in room 222
Wednesday, February 22: Last day for current events. 1984 study guide due. Book 3 quiz. Return 1984 book to library.
Thursday, February 23: Final CRT testing day in room 222
DISCLAIMER: All dates are subject to change without notice.
3rd PeriodTuesday, February 14: Last day for current events. 1984 quiz Book 3. Check out Pygmalion in library. 1984 study guide is due FRIDAY, February 17. No late work will be accepted.
Wednesday, February 15: Practice CRT in room 219.
Thursday, February 16: Begin MyAccess essay in room 219.
Friday, February 17: Complete MyAccess essay in room 219.
Monday, February 20: No school
Tuesday, February 21: Begin Pygmalion. Read Act I.
Wednesday, February 22: Pygmalion, Act II.
Thursday, February 23: Pygmalion, Act III.
Friday, February 24: Begin CRT testing in room 219.
Monday, February 27: CRT testing in room 219.
Tuesday, February 28: Final day of CRT testing in room 219.
DISCLAIMER: All dates are subject to change without notice.
1st PeriodTuesday, February 14: Practice Test in room 222
Wednesday, February 15: Begin MyAccess in room 222
Thursday, February 16: Finish MyAccess in room 222
Friday, February 17: Begin CRT testing in room 222
Monday, February 20: No school
Tuesday, February 21: CRT testing in room 222
Wednesday, February 22: Last day for current events. 1984 study guide due. Book 3 quiz. Return 1984 book to library.
Thursday, February 23: Final CRT testing day in room 222
DISCLAIMER: All dates are subject to change without notice.
3rd PeriodTuesday, February 14: Last day for current events. 1984 quiz Book 3. Check out Pygmalion in library. 1984 study guide is due FRIDAY, February 17. No late work will be accepted.
Wednesday, February 15: Practice CRT in room 219.
Thursday, February 16: Begin MyAccess essay in room 219.
Friday, February 17: Complete MyAccess essay in room 219.
Monday, February 20: No school
Tuesday, February 21: Begin Pygmalion. Read Act I.
Wednesday, February 22: Pygmalion, Act II.
Thursday, February 23: Pygmalion, Act III.
Friday, February 24: Begin CRT testing in room 219.
Monday, February 27: CRT testing in room 219.
Tuesday, February 28: Final day of CRT testing in room 219.
DISCLAIMER: All dates are subject to change without notice.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
"Privacy" Questions
Name___________________________Period___________Date________________
“Privacy is Overrated”
Read the article and answer the following questions.
1. What is the author’s main idea?
2. What is his most convincing argument?
3. Do you agree? Why or why not?
4. When should the right of privacy be limited?
“Privacy is Overrated”
Read the article and answer the following questions.
1. What is the author’s main idea?
2. What is his most convincing argument?
3. Do you agree? Why or why not?
4. When should the right of privacy be limited?
Privacy is Overrated by David Plotz
Is privacy overrated?
They're watching your every
move. Big deal.
BY David Plotz FROM GQ
Let’s start by invading my privacy. I own a three bedroom house at 2922 Cortland Place in Washington, D.C. I have a mortgage from National city Mortgage Co. I am married to Hanna Rosin. We have a two-year old child. I drive a 2001 Volkswagen, D.C. license plate BE 6981.
1 have no criminal record. I have never been party to a lawsuit. I have no tax liens against me. I have never declared bankruptcy (unlike 2 of the 11 other David Plotzes in the United States). I have no ties to organized crime, though I do hold stock options in Microsoft.
The James Mintz Group, a leading. corporate investigation firm head quartered in New York City, learned all this about me in a few hours with computer, an Internet connection and a single phone call-and without even, bending the law.
If you spent a bit more time, you would discover that my Social Security number is 577-86-4300, that I paid $812,000 for the house in October, 2002, and that I bank at Bank of America. You could have my listed home telephone number in two mouse clicks and my unlisted-cell phone number if you paid the right data broker.
Corporations, meanwhile, are recording my every move. I don't watch what I eat,. but Safeway does; thanks to my club card. Telecoms can pinpoint where I am when I make my cell phone calls. Clothing stores analyze my purchases in detail, recording everything from the expansion of my waist (up to 35 from 32) to my recent infatuation with three-button-suits.
The credit reporting agencies know every time I have made a late payment to my Citibank MasterCard (number 6577… I’m not that stupid) and every time I have applied for credit. This is all going on my permanent record._
Surveillance cameras are watching me in malls and sometimes on public streets. Even my own computer is spying on me. A scan of my hard drive turns up 141 cookies, deposited by companies that track me around the Web. I recently surfed a porn site (just because a high school friend runs it, I swear). The cookies may know about it. My employer probably does too. After all, my employment contract permits the boss to track all my on-the-job Web surfing, and read all my work e-mail too.
If my company isn't watching, perhaps the FBI is: Its Carnivore program rafts through vast rivers of e-mail flow in search of criminal activity.
They-a they that includes the feds, a thousand corporations, a million telemarketers, my employer, my enemies and maybe even my friends know all this about me, and more. And unless you are a technophobe hermit who pays for everything in cash, they know all this about you too.
To which I say, "Hallelujah!"
I’m in the minority. Privacy paranoia has become a national obsession. Since last November, pundits, politicians and privacy activists have been shouting about the latest government intrusion
on privacy. The Defense Department's office of Total Information Awareness plans to collect massive quantities of information about all Americans-everything from what you buy to where you travelin gigantic databases, and then sift through the information for clues about terrorism. Total Information Awareness has been denounced as Orwellian, and there are efforts to stop the program.
You could fill a library with privacy alarmism books (The End of Privacy; Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It). Congress and the state legislatures are awash in proposals to protect privacy. Horror stories fuel the fire of anxiety. The sailor the Navy tried to boot out after he used the word “gay” in a supposedly confidential AOL profile. The stalker who bought his target's address from a Web information broker, tracked her down and murdered her. The sale of Social Security numbers by LexisNexis.
You can more or less distill the essence of the privacy-rights movement to this idea: Big Brother and Big Business observe us too often, without our consent. The most intimate details of our lives are being sold and used secretly to make judgments about us, and we have no control over it.
It sounds appalling. But, in fact, the privacy crusade is built on a foundation of hypocrisy, paranoia, economic know-nothingism and bogus nostalgia.
The first flaw of privacy: People care a great deal about their own, but not at all about anyone else's. We figure, why should anyone get to review my real-estate records or read my divorce proceedings?
My life is my own business.
But I bet you want to know if your baby-sitter has ever been convicted of child abuse, if your business partner has a history of bankruptcy, if your boyfriend is still married. When your husband flees the state to duck child support payments, wouldn't you use his Social Security number, driving records, real estate filings and whatever else you could get your hands on to track him down?
You don't want the Total Information Awareness office to know what you bought at the hardware store or where you take vacations. But if your neighbor is stockpiling fertilizer and likes to holiday in Iraq, don't you want the government to notice? If government had been using even basic data-mining techniques before September 11, at least 11 of the hijackers might have been stopped, according to a report by the Markle Foundation. Wouldn't that be worth letting the feds know you bought an Xbox last month?
Hysteria is growing that companies are shadowing us constantly. They are. But here, too, privacy is a silly value, both because "protecting" it is enormously costly and because. it's not really being violated. Ignorant companies are bankrupt companies. A recent study found that restricting marketing data would raise catalog clothing prices up to 11 percent, costing shoppers $1 billion per year. By buying address lists and consumer profiles, Victoria's Secret knows to send a catalog to my house, and International Male knows not to bother. Their marketing costs plummet. We get less junk mail, lower prices and catalogs for clothing we might buy.
Your father probably shopped with a clothier who knew he wore a 44 long suit and preferred a faint pinstripe. Such friendships are extinct, murdered by megastores and armchair shopping, But today, when I log on to Amazon.com, I am pitched another book about privacy, because Amazon has learned that I am the kind of guy who buys books on privacy. They are saving me time (which is money) by delivering what 1 like.
INFORMATION SHARING is also an engine of entrepreneurship. Thanks to cheap mailing lists, upstarts can challenge titanic businesses, lowering prices and bringing clever products to market.
Losing privacy has made it much cheaper to use a credit card or buy a house. Credit card and mortgage companies collect and share information about who pays, who doesn't, etc. Because- they have an idea who will default, they offer significantly lower rates to people with good records and make credit much more available to poorer customers.
It's true that identity theft has become easier. On the other hand, credit card fraud, a much more common crime, is harder. Companies often catch a thief before a customer even notices her card is missing. (Their observant computers notice that her buying habits have suddenly changed.)
Similarly, surveillance cameras reduce shoplifting and stop ATM robberies, while cameras in police cars reduce incidents of police brutality. Lack of privacy actually tends to fight crime, not cause it.
There is one notable exception to the argument for transparency, however. If medical records are unsealed, especially to employers, people may avoid treatment, fearing they will be stigmatized or fired for their health problems. PHILOSOPHICALLY, many people don’t like the idea that a soulless corporation records that they buy sexy underwear, subscribe to Penthouse and collect heavy metal CDs. Friends were freaked out to receive ads for infant formula soon after they gave birth. How did the company know? Is the hospital selling your baby already?
But this worry is an example of the egocentric fallacy: the belief that because people know something about you, they care.
One wonderful, terrible thing about modern capitalism is that companies don't care. You are not a person. You are a wallet. Privacy advocates like to say, "it didn't used to be this way." They hark back to a time-it generally sounds like l9th-century rural America-when stores didn't record your every purchase and doctors didn't report your ailments to a monolithic insurance company. You could abandon a bad life in one state, reinvent yourself 50 miles away, and no one needed to know. Nothing went down on your permanent record, because there was no permanent record.
This nostalgia imagines a past that never existed. Small-town America never guarded anyone's privacy. In small towns, as anyone who lives in one can attest, people can be nosy and punish nonconformity viciously.
The right to privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution, and was not even conceived until 1890. Censuses in the 18th and 19th centuries demanded answers to intrusive questions, such as one compelling Americans to reveal any history of insanity in the family.
Nostalgists also fail to recognize that technology is creating a golden age for what they actually care about: real privacy. This is nothing that Amazon.com cares about. Nothing that Total Information Awareness can track down. Nothing that needs to be protected by encryption.
The opposite of privacy is not invasion of privacy: It is openness. Real privacy is what allows us to share hopes, dreams, fantasies, fears, and makes us feel we can safely expose our faults and quirks and still be loved. Privacy is the space between us and our dearest-where everything is known and does not matter.
There has never been a better time for real privacy. The Internet allows people who have peculiar interests, social awkwardness or debilitating health problems to create communities that never could have existed before. Online, they can find other folk, who want to re-enact the Battle of Bull Run or sunbathe nude or whatever your bag is, baby.
By surrendering some privacy, that is, by revealing our humanity with all its peculiarity in chat rooms or on e-mail or in newsgroups, we gain much greater privacy: an intimacy with others, a sense of belonging; to be less private sometimes is to have more privacy. To be less private is to be more ourselves.
They're watching your every
move. Big deal.
BY David Plotz FROM GQ
Let’s start by invading my privacy. I own a three bedroom house at 2922 Cortland Place in Washington, D.C. I have a mortgage from National city Mortgage Co. I am married to Hanna Rosin. We have a two-year old child. I drive a 2001 Volkswagen, D.C. license plate BE 6981.
1 have no criminal record. I have never been party to a lawsuit. I have no tax liens against me. I have never declared bankruptcy (unlike 2 of the 11 other David Plotzes in the United States). I have no ties to organized crime, though I do hold stock options in Microsoft.
The James Mintz Group, a leading. corporate investigation firm head quartered in New York City, learned all this about me in a few hours with computer, an Internet connection and a single phone call-and without even, bending the law.
If you spent a bit more time, you would discover that my Social Security number is 577-86-4300, that I paid $812,000 for the house in October, 2002, and that I bank at Bank of America. You could have my listed home telephone number in two mouse clicks and my unlisted-cell phone number if you paid the right data broker.
Corporations, meanwhile, are recording my every move. I don't watch what I eat,. but Safeway does; thanks to my club card. Telecoms can pinpoint where I am when I make my cell phone calls. Clothing stores analyze my purchases in detail, recording everything from the expansion of my waist (up to 35 from 32) to my recent infatuation with three-button-suits.
The credit reporting agencies know every time I have made a late payment to my Citibank MasterCard (number 6577… I’m not that stupid) and every time I have applied for credit. This is all going on my permanent record._
Surveillance cameras are watching me in malls and sometimes on public streets. Even my own computer is spying on me. A scan of my hard drive turns up 141 cookies, deposited by companies that track me around the Web. I recently surfed a porn site (just because a high school friend runs it, I swear). The cookies may know about it. My employer probably does too. After all, my employment contract permits the boss to track all my on-the-job Web surfing, and read all my work e-mail too.
If my company isn't watching, perhaps the FBI is: Its Carnivore program rafts through vast rivers of e-mail flow in search of criminal activity.
They-a they that includes the feds, a thousand corporations, a million telemarketers, my employer, my enemies and maybe even my friends know all this about me, and more. And unless you are a technophobe hermit who pays for everything in cash, they know all this about you too.
To which I say, "Hallelujah!"
I’m in the minority. Privacy paranoia has become a national obsession. Since last November, pundits, politicians and privacy activists have been shouting about the latest government intrusion
on privacy. The Defense Department's office of Total Information Awareness plans to collect massive quantities of information about all Americans-everything from what you buy to where you travelin gigantic databases, and then sift through the information for clues about terrorism. Total Information Awareness has been denounced as Orwellian, and there are efforts to stop the program.
You could fill a library with privacy alarmism books (The End of Privacy; Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It). Congress and the state legislatures are awash in proposals to protect privacy. Horror stories fuel the fire of anxiety. The sailor the Navy tried to boot out after he used the word “gay” in a supposedly confidential AOL profile. The stalker who bought his target's address from a Web information broker, tracked her down and murdered her. The sale of Social Security numbers by LexisNexis.
You can more or less distill the essence of the privacy-rights movement to this idea: Big Brother and Big Business observe us too often, without our consent. The most intimate details of our lives are being sold and used secretly to make judgments about us, and we have no control over it.
It sounds appalling. But, in fact, the privacy crusade is built on a foundation of hypocrisy, paranoia, economic know-nothingism and bogus nostalgia.
The first flaw of privacy: People care a great deal about their own, but not at all about anyone else's. We figure, why should anyone get to review my real-estate records or read my divorce proceedings?
My life is my own business.
But I bet you want to know if your baby-sitter has ever been convicted of child abuse, if your business partner has a history of bankruptcy, if your boyfriend is still married. When your husband flees the state to duck child support payments, wouldn't you use his Social Security number, driving records, real estate filings and whatever else you could get your hands on to track him down?
You don't want the Total Information Awareness office to know what you bought at the hardware store or where you take vacations. But if your neighbor is stockpiling fertilizer and likes to holiday in Iraq, don't you want the government to notice? If government had been using even basic data-mining techniques before September 11, at least 11 of the hijackers might have been stopped, according to a report by the Markle Foundation. Wouldn't that be worth letting the feds know you bought an Xbox last month?
Hysteria is growing that companies are shadowing us constantly. They are. But here, too, privacy is a silly value, both because "protecting" it is enormously costly and because. it's not really being violated. Ignorant companies are bankrupt companies. A recent study found that restricting marketing data would raise catalog clothing prices up to 11 percent, costing shoppers $1 billion per year. By buying address lists and consumer profiles, Victoria's Secret knows to send a catalog to my house, and International Male knows not to bother. Their marketing costs plummet. We get less junk mail, lower prices and catalogs for clothing we might buy.
Your father probably shopped with a clothier who knew he wore a 44 long suit and preferred a faint pinstripe. Such friendships are extinct, murdered by megastores and armchair shopping, But today, when I log on to Amazon.com, I am pitched another book about privacy, because Amazon has learned that I am the kind of guy who buys books on privacy. They are saving me time (which is money) by delivering what 1 like.
INFORMATION SHARING is also an engine of entrepreneurship. Thanks to cheap mailing lists, upstarts can challenge titanic businesses, lowering prices and bringing clever products to market.
Losing privacy has made it much cheaper to use a credit card or buy a house. Credit card and mortgage companies collect and share information about who pays, who doesn't, etc. Because- they have an idea who will default, they offer significantly lower rates to people with good records and make credit much more available to poorer customers.
It's true that identity theft has become easier. On the other hand, credit card fraud, a much more common crime, is harder. Companies often catch a thief before a customer even notices her card is missing. (Their observant computers notice that her buying habits have suddenly changed.)
Similarly, surveillance cameras reduce shoplifting and stop ATM robberies, while cameras in police cars reduce incidents of police brutality. Lack of privacy actually tends to fight crime, not cause it.
There is one notable exception to the argument for transparency, however. If medical records are unsealed, especially to employers, people may avoid treatment, fearing they will be stigmatized or fired for their health problems. PHILOSOPHICALLY, many people don’t like the idea that a soulless corporation records that they buy sexy underwear, subscribe to Penthouse and collect heavy metal CDs. Friends were freaked out to receive ads for infant formula soon after they gave birth. How did the company know? Is the hospital selling your baby already?
But this worry is an example of the egocentric fallacy: the belief that because people know something about you, they care.
One wonderful, terrible thing about modern capitalism is that companies don't care. You are not a person. You are a wallet. Privacy advocates like to say, "it didn't used to be this way." They hark back to a time-it generally sounds like l9th-century rural America-when stores didn't record your every purchase and doctors didn't report your ailments to a monolithic insurance company. You could abandon a bad life in one state, reinvent yourself 50 miles away, and no one needed to know. Nothing went down on your permanent record, because there was no permanent record.
This nostalgia imagines a past that never existed. Small-town America never guarded anyone's privacy. In small towns, as anyone who lives in one can attest, people can be nosy and punish nonconformity viciously.
The right to privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution, and was not even conceived until 1890. Censuses in the 18th and 19th centuries demanded answers to intrusive questions, such as one compelling Americans to reveal any history of insanity in the family.
Nostalgists also fail to recognize that technology is creating a golden age for what they actually care about: real privacy. This is nothing that Amazon.com cares about. Nothing that Total Information Awareness can track down. Nothing that needs to be protected by encryption.
The opposite of privacy is not invasion of privacy: It is openness. Real privacy is what allows us to share hopes, dreams, fantasies, fears, and makes us feel we can safely expose our faults and quirks and still be loved. Privacy is the space between us and our dearest-where everything is known and does not matter.
There has never been a better time for real privacy. The Internet allows people who have peculiar interests, social awkwardness or debilitating health problems to create communities that never could have existed before. Online, they can find other folk, who want to re-enact the Battle of Bull Run or sunbathe nude or whatever your bag is, baby.
By surrendering some privacy, that is, by revealing our humanity with all its peculiarity in chat rooms or on e-mail or in newsgroups, we gain much greater privacy: an intimacy with others, a sense of belonging; to be less private sometimes is to have more privacy. To be less private is to be more ourselves.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Current Events
1984 Current Events Assignment
1984 deals with many of the important political and social issues of George Orwell’s time. Many of these same issues apply today. Over the next two weeks, you will become aware of how these same concerns affect your life today.
Your assignment is to find current events that relate to 1984. You will need to bring in TWO current evens throughout the course of this unit. All current events will be due on _______________________. You may only bring in one current event per day. if you forget until the last day, you can still only turn in one.
Each current event must include an article from a recent newspaper or magazine. Articles from the Internet are allowed, but may not be more than one month old. You also need to write one paragraph summarizing the article and one paragraph explaining how this article applies to 1984.
Possible topics include government regulation, right of privacy, totalitarianism, socialism, government control versus private property, freedom, and revolution.
1984 deals with many of the important political and social issues of George Orwell’s time. Many of these same issues apply today. Over the next two weeks, you will become aware of how these same concerns affect your life today.
Your assignment is to find current events that relate to 1984. You will need to bring in TWO current evens throughout the course of this unit. All current events will be due on _______________________. You may only bring in one current event per day. if you forget until the last day, you can still only turn in one.
Each current event must include an article from a recent newspaper or magazine. Articles from the Internet are allowed, but may not be more than one month old. You also need to write one paragraph summarizing the article and one paragraph explaining how this article applies to 1984.
Possible topics include government regulation, right of privacy, totalitarianism, socialism, government control versus private property, freedom, and revolution.
1984 Study Guide and Vocabulary
1984 Study Guide
Book One
Chapter 1-2
1. Describe Victory Gardens where Winston lives.
2. What appears to be wrong with Winston’s society?
3. What are the three slogans and four ministries of the Inner Party?
4. How does the Two Minute Hate work and what is its significance?
5. What happens between Winston and O’Brien?
6. What are the “Thought Police” and what is their function?
7. Who are the Parsons and what do they represent?
8. What is Winston’s dream about O’Brien?
Chapters 3-4
1. What is Winston’s dream about his mother? How does he feel about himself in that dream?
2. What is his dream about the “Golden Country”?
3. What does he remember about the big events of the past? Bombs? Past wars?
4. Explain the Party slogan, “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
5. Describe Winston’s job. How does he control the past?
6. What special literature, music and entertainment is produced for the proletariat (proles)?
7. What is the significance of Comrade Ogilvy?
Chapters 5-7
1. What is the problem with obtaining razor blades?
2. What is revealed about Inner Party philosophy in the discussion between Winston and Syme?
3. Parsons brags about his children for doing what?
4. What is the significance of the telescreen announcement and what are Winston’s feelings about the present time after he hears the announcement?
5. What is the purpose of marriage in the State?
6. How does Winston view the proles and how are they controlled?
7. What is the story of Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford and why is this story meaningful for Winston?
Chapter 8
1. What is life like in the proles’ end of London?
2. What does Winston discover at Mr. Charrington’s shop?
3. What does Winston think about when he sees the dark-haired girl outside Mr. Charrington’s shop?
4. Why does Winston wonder about church bells ringing in London?
Book Two
Chapter 1
1. How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it? What is his reaction after he reads it?
2. How do they manage to meet?
3. Describe the “parade” in victory Square. Why does the Inner Party provide the spectacle for the proles? For the Outer Party members?
Chapter 2
1. Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
2. What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
3. What familiar sign does Winston find?
4. What is the significance of the thrush music?
Chapter 3
1. What is Julia’s job? Describe her background.
2. What is her attitude toward the Inner Party?
3. Describe Winston’s marriage.
Chapter 4
1. How does Winston react to the singing prole woman?
2. What pleasure of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
3. What is Winston’s reaction to the rats? What is Julia’s reaction?
4. Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
Chapter 5-6
1. Who has vanished?
2. Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
3. Explain the differences between Winston and Julia.
4. What finally convinces Winston that O’Brien is a member of the Brotherhood?
Chapter 7
1. What does Winston remember about his family and his relationship with his mother?
2. What does Winston realize about love and loyalty as a result of his dream?
3. What is the difference between confessional and betrayal?
Chapter 8-9 (through page 151)
1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles.
2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston?
3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood?
4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston?
5. What are ways in which the Inner Party builds spirit during Hate Week?
Book Three
Chapter 1
1. Where is Winston?
2. Which of Winston’s acquaintances is in the same place and why?
3. What happens between the starving man and the chinless man?
4. What effect do the words, “Room 101” have on the skull-faced man?
5. Who is O’Brien and what do he and Charrington have in common?
Chapter 2
1. Describe Winston’s treatment.
2. O’Brien explains how the Inner Party avoids the mistakes of past totalitarian governments. State in your own words what O’Brien means.
3. What effect does the (painless) shock treatment have on Winston?
4. What questions does Winston ask O’Brien and what are the responses?
Chapter 3
1. According to O’Brien, what are the three stages in Winston’s re-integration, and which stage is he about to enter?
2. Who wrote Goldstein’s book? Is what the book says true?
3. Why does the Inner Party seek power?
4. Explain the slogan, “Freedom is Slavery.”
5. Why does Winston feel he is morally superior to O’Brien, and how does O’Brien prove that Winston is wrong?
6. What good thing can Winston say about himself at the end of this chapter?
7. How does Winston feel about O’Brien? Why?
8. What final question does Winston ask O’Brien?
Chapter 4-5
1. How has Winston’s environment changed? What does he do with his time? How does he show his obedience to the Inner Party?
2. How does Winston show he is not entirely true to Big Brother? Explain his feelings about big Brother.
3. What happens in Room 101 and how does this “cure” Winston?
Chapter 6
1. What is the setting for this chapter?
2. What is Winston’s job?
3. How did the meeting with Julia go?
4. Cite evidence that proves Winston is a different person? Include page numbers.
5. Explain what is happening in the last two paragraphs of the book.
Vocabulary
Look up each word in the dictionary. Write the correct definition for the way the word is used in the sentence. Write the proper part of speech. Write the word correctly in a sentence.
1. Sanguine (6)
2. Eddies (6)
3. Strident (10)
4. Nebulous (12)
5. Senile (14)
6. Clandestinely (15)
7. Lucid (16)
8. Entrails (18)
9. Statuesque (134)
10. Fecundity (154)
11. Spurious (159)
12. Inimical (163)
13. Equilibrium (166)
14. Irreconcilable (166)
15. Adherents (167)
16. Parasitical (167)
17. Fraternity (167)
18. Truncheons (189)
19. Lethargy (190)
20. Desultorily (191)
21. Servile (192)
22. Sententiously (192)
23. Insidious (192)
24. Doleful (193)
25. Emaciation (194)
26. Rotund (199)
27. Wantonness (209)
Book One
Chapter 1-2
1. Describe Victory Gardens where Winston lives.
2. What appears to be wrong with Winston’s society?
3. What are the three slogans and four ministries of the Inner Party?
4. How does the Two Minute Hate work and what is its significance?
5. What happens between Winston and O’Brien?
6. What are the “Thought Police” and what is their function?
7. Who are the Parsons and what do they represent?
8. What is Winston’s dream about O’Brien?
Chapters 3-4
1. What is Winston’s dream about his mother? How does he feel about himself in that dream?
2. What is his dream about the “Golden Country”?
3. What does he remember about the big events of the past? Bombs? Past wars?
4. Explain the Party slogan, “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
5. Describe Winston’s job. How does he control the past?
6. What special literature, music and entertainment is produced for the proletariat (proles)?
7. What is the significance of Comrade Ogilvy?
Chapters 5-7
1. What is the problem with obtaining razor blades?
2. What is revealed about Inner Party philosophy in the discussion between Winston and Syme?
3. Parsons brags about his children for doing what?
4. What is the significance of the telescreen announcement and what are Winston’s feelings about the present time after he hears the announcement?
5. What is the purpose of marriage in the State?
6. How does Winston view the proles and how are they controlled?
7. What is the story of Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford and why is this story meaningful for Winston?
Chapter 8
1. What is life like in the proles’ end of London?
2. What does Winston discover at Mr. Charrington’s shop?
3. What does Winston think about when he sees the dark-haired girl outside Mr. Charrington’s shop?
4. Why does Winston wonder about church bells ringing in London?
Book Two
Chapter 1
1. How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it? What is his reaction after he reads it?
2. How do they manage to meet?
3. Describe the “parade” in victory Square. Why does the Inner Party provide the spectacle for the proles? For the Outer Party members?
Chapter 2
1. Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia?
2. What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market?
3. What familiar sign does Winston find?
4. What is the significance of the thrush music?
Chapter 3
1. What is Julia’s job? Describe her background.
2. What is her attitude toward the Inner Party?
3. Describe Winston’s marriage.
Chapter 4
1. How does Winston react to the singing prole woman?
2. What pleasure of the senses are mentioned in this chapter? What is Orwell’s point in mentioning them?
3. What is Winston’s reaction to the rats? What is Julia’s reaction?
4. Winston sees the coral paperweight as a symbol of what?
Chapter 5-6
1. Who has vanished?
2. Describe the preparations for Hate Week. In what ways does the Inner Party excel in building spirit?
3. Explain the differences between Winston and Julia.
4. What finally convinces Winston that O’Brien is a member of the Brotherhood?
Chapter 7
1. What does Winston remember about his family and his relationship with his mother?
2. What does Winston realize about love and loyalty as a result of his dream?
3. What is the difference between confessional and betrayal?
Chapter 8-9 (through page 151)
1. Contrast the living quarters and style of the Inner Party members with those of the Outer Party members and proles.
2. How does O’Brien test Julia and Winston?
3. What information does O’Brien give them about the Brotherhood?
4. How will O’Brien get The Book to Winston?
5. What are ways in which the Inner Party builds spirit during Hate Week?
Book Three
Chapter 1
1. Where is Winston?
2. Which of Winston’s acquaintances is in the same place and why?
3. What happens between the starving man and the chinless man?
4. What effect do the words, “Room 101” have on the skull-faced man?
5. Who is O’Brien and what do he and Charrington have in common?
Chapter 2
1. Describe Winston’s treatment.
2. O’Brien explains how the Inner Party avoids the mistakes of past totalitarian governments. State in your own words what O’Brien means.
3. What effect does the (painless) shock treatment have on Winston?
4. What questions does Winston ask O’Brien and what are the responses?
Chapter 3
1. According to O’Brien, what are the three stages in Winston’s re-integration, and which stage is he about to enter?
2. Who wrote Goldstein’s book? Is what the book says true?
3. Why does the Inner Party seek power?
4. Explain the slogan, “Freedom is Slavery.”
5. Why does Winston feel he is morally superior to O’Brien, and how does O’Brien prove that Winston is wrong?
6. What good thing can Winston say about himself at the end of this chapter?
7. How does Winston feel about O’Brien? Why?
8. What final question does Winston ask O’Brien?
Chapter 4-5
1. How has Winston’s environment changed? What does he do with his time? How does he show his obedience to the Inner Party?
2. How does Winston show he is not entirely true to Big Brother? Explain his feelings about big Brother.
3. What happens in Room 101 and how does this “cure” Winston?
Chapter 6
1. What is the setting for this chapter?
2. What is Winston’s job?
3. How did the meeting with Julia go?
4. Cite evidence that proves Winston is a different person? Include page numbers.
5. Explain what is happening in the last two paragraphs of the book.
Vocabulary
Look up each word in the dictionary. Write the correct definition for the way the word is used in the sentence. Write the proper part of speech. Write the word correctly in a sentence.
1. Sanguine (6)
2. Eddies (6)
3. Strident (10)
4. Nebulous (12)
5. Senile (14)
6. Clandestinely (15)
7. Lucid (16)
8. Entrails (18)
9. Statuesque (134)
10. Fecundity (154)
11. Spurious (159)
12. Inimical (163)
13. Equilibrium (166)
14. Irreconcilable (166)
15. Adherents (167)
16. Parasitical (167)
17. Fraternity (167)
18. Truncheons (189)
19. Lethargy (190)
20. Desultorily (191)
21. Servile (192)
22. Sententiously (192)
23. Insidious (192)
24. Doleful (193)
25. Emaciation (194)
26. Rotund (199)
27. Wantonness (209)
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