Click on the buttons marked JGCC for a two-part video by John Green discussing Orwell's 1984. There is a fifteen-question guide-sheet that goes with this; make sure you pick it up.
Click on the button above, "Reimaginging 1984 in Art." You will find artistic re-imaginings of the concepts of 1984 and how society in the 21st century reflect the world of the book. Choose one and write a critique, analyzing the ways in which the artistic drawing you chose reflects our modern society.
Exercise: Summarize the following in a single sentence. Capture the main idea!
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that’s true whether you’re reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction -- reading is always an act of empathy. It’s always an imagining of what it’s like to be someone else. So, when Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter or Salinger uses a red hunting cap, they aren’t doing this so that your English teachers will have something to torture you with. They’re doing it (at least, if they’re doing it on purpose) so the story can have a bigger and better life in your mind. – J
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that’s true whether you’re reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction -- reading is always an act of empathy. It’s always an imagining of what it’s like to be someone else. So, when Shakespeare uses iambic pentameter or Salinger uses a red hunting cap, they aren’t doing this so that your English teachers will have something to torture you with. They’re doing it (at least, if they’re doing it on purpose) so the story can have a bigger and better life in your mind. – J