Monday In-Class:
Students discussed response papers (10 points) on Ch. 4 of 1984
Students sat in a circle with teacher and made a Web of Communication using yarn

HW:  Socratic Seminar Questions Ch. 5

In-Class:

• Students will begin reading 1984
• Students will read and annotate Ch. 1 in class

HW:  5 Socratic Seminar Questions and Answers

In-Class:

• Students finished going over 1984 PowerPoint
• Teacher passed out books (to students who did not purchase them)
• Students went over Socratic Seminar and Response Papers
• Students read the first line of 1984: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" (Orwell 1).
• Students wrote a short in-class response paper answering "Why did Orwell start his novel off this way?"
• Students discussed the connotation of April (spring), thirteen, and authorial intent of starting a novel in this way.
• HW: None

Thursday:

• Students Completed Totalitarian Activity with our New Classroom Rules
  
• Quick Write on reaction to New Classroom Rules
• Group Discussion over rights,  freedom, leaders, and control 
• Class Discussion over how 1984 works into our activity
• HW:  Read and complete 1984 Background Information and George Orwell Biography