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
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