Part II chapter IX Goldstein's book

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

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polyglot

Word of the day

polyglot (n) - someone who speaks 'many' languages as opposed to a monoglot who speaks one language.

The Greek root "glot"  means tongue.

Can you think of 2 synonyms for polyglot

The polyglot Pope, at intervals, addressed the crowd in Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, and Polish.

multilingual, bilingual, plurlingual, linguist, wordsmith

Oligarchical collectivism

An oligarchy is a state governed by a small number of people; collectivism is the belief that land and the means of production should be owned by the community, not by individuals. 

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Winston reads chapter 1 and part of chapter 3 of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. Chapter 1 "Ignorance is Strength" Chapter 3 "War is Peace" 

"Ignorance is Strength" - Chapter 1 

Take notes on the salient points

"War is Peace" Chapter 3 

Take notes on the salient points

Goals for today 

Review content of 'Goldstein's Book'

Quotes for chapter 3 in 'Goldstein's Book'

Annotating your extract and constructing your plan

Writing your introduction & MPO plan 

Example response shared on Class notebook tonight 

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4. I know the word well and can use it correctly in writing or speech. 

polysyllabic 

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polysyllabic (n) - consisting of or using more than one syllable

usually meaning more than three syllables,

The author resisted the polysyllabic playfulness that marks the writing of her brother, Bill, but she writes with clarity and style.

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War is peace - what is the role of war in 1984? 

• "It is impossible for it to be decisive" 
  
• "war is for labour power" 
  
• "The primary aim modern warfare...is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living." 
  
• "an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction-indeed, in some sense was the destruction - of a hierarchical society." 
  
• "In the long run a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance." 
  
• " A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war... War is Peace

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Find at least 4 quotes that support the main focus of this chapter. 

Ignorance is Strength - what is the role of disinformation and control in 1984? 

•  "human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted." 
• With the development of television... made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously." 
• "In Oceania there is no law" 
• " The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc." 
• Doublethink  = "To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient" 

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Find at least 4 quotes that support the main focus of this chapter. 

The ministries 

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war. 

The Ministry of Truth concerns itself with lies. 

The Ministry of Love concerns itself with torture 

The Ministry of Plenty concerns itself with starvation. 

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What text type is
"Goldstein's Book"?

What textual conventions
do you expect in this kind of text?

AWL

Note expanding 

• Answer these questions for this extract: 
• Who? 
• When? 
• Where? 
• Why? 

Note expanding 

• Who? George Orwell/ Emmanuel Goldstein (novel level)
• When? 1949 / after the change in enemy from Eurasia to Eastasia (novel level) 
• Where? In Part II chapter IX
• Why? To inform and warn the reader of the political and social developments that led to the dystopian totalitarian state of Oceania. 
• Expand this kernel sentence 'explores heredity' using the answers above. Start your sentence with "when?": 

Note expanding 

Published in 1949, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four  explores, through an extract from "Goldstein's Book", the socioeconomic problem  of inheritance  and informs and warns the reader of the political and social developments that led to the dystopian totalitarian state of Oceania. 

Annotating for understanding 

Annotate on the left of the extract for understanding and purpose. 

1. Key ideas

2. key words

3. Key concepts 

Annotating for technique

Annotate on the right of the extract for techniques. For example

1. Word classes

2. Diction choices

3. Rhetorical devices (see info in class notebook) 

4. Text type & conventions

Your thesis statement for this guiding question.

Example thesis statement

Orwell successfully uses rhetorical and persuasive techniques to highlight how the  absence of traditional heredity in Oceania is used to control society. 

The name of the novel is stated

The author is given

The text type is clearly identified without elaboration

When it was produced is stated

where the text appeared in the novel is stated

The content is discussed: what does the text actually say (briefly)

The intended audience/reader is stated (if definable) 

The purpose(s) is stated

The social, cultural and temporal context is addressed 

The thesis: what you find most important about the text (without elaboration) (main idea/main theme)that addresses the guiding question 

The structure of your analysis is stated. How will you will structure your answer. 

Introduction

General statement 

Specific statement(s)

Thesis statement

Thesis statement 

Specific statement(s)

General statement

INTRODUCTION

CONCLUSION

Multiple paragraph outline

Complete your MPO. Add this information to your MPO: 

• Thesis statement
  
• Topic sentences 
  
• Rhetorical and persuasive techniques 
  
• evidence to be used