1984

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

Big Brother is watching you.

Starter

1. Have you heard of the phrase 'Big Brother is watching you'? Where is it from? 
2. What is totalitarianism? Can you think of examples?

Test (3x): 

15 December

Drawing parallels between a current news and the book.

Consider that a foreign, totalitarian power has invaded the Netherlands and has taken control. 

 Consider how your lives would be changed by such a take over and how you would respond to those things you can and cannot control.

• Give a description of the type of regime which has invaded the Netherlands in your scenario.

• List, in order of the most to the least, 10 things that would affect your life if a foreign, totalitarian power should take over our country. These may be the things that you do or do not have control over. 
• Think about possessions, abilities, freedoms, situations, and circumstances.

• List, in order of the most to the least, six things that you could afford to lose, if that foreign power took over, and not have your lifestyle change much.
• What would your reaction be and what action might you take? Explain and be real about your answers.

Write a five-sentence summary of chapter 8.

What do you think will happen next?

What did Winston, Julia and O'Brien discuss in the first chapter we read?

Today

1. Language used in 1984
2. Continue reading the chapters

Why does it matter who has control over language and information?

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Define 'authoritarian'

02:10

What is doublespeak?
Give an example from the clip.

02:29

What is one of the effects of introducing "Newspeak"?

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What is meant by Orwellian?

1. deceptive and manipulative use of language
2. mass surveillance and intrusive government

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Newspeak?

• language used by the people and enforced by the government in 1984. 
• based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. 
• make any alternative thinking—thoughtcrime, or crimethink in the newest edition of Newspeak—impossible
• removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on.

Creating Newspeak Words Using Prefixes

• Really Good would be turned into Plusgood by adding the prefix plus the base word good.
  
• Incredibly good could be turned into doubleplusgood by adding the prefix double to plusgood.
• Boring or not fun could be turned into unfun by adding the prefix un to the base word fun.

Using the method above create Newspeak words out of the words listed below.

• scared

• incredibly hilarious

• extremely sad

• mean

• wonderfully nice

•  excruciatingly stupid

Newspeak vocabulary

• joycamp: forced labor camp.
• oldspeak: English; perhaps any language that is not Newspeak.
  
• prolefeed: the steady stream of mindless entertainment to distract and occupy the masses.
  
• ownlife: individualism and eccentricity. A desire to do something for your own benefit and is frowned upon by the government.
  
• goodsex: intercourse for the purpose of creating children for the party.

Newspeak vocabulary

Create five Newspeak words which are related to crimes, taboos, or things which are considered negative in our present-day society. 

Also create five Newspeak words for things which we value greatly.

Share two of your newspeak words.

The most famous example of Newspeak is the term big brother. What do you notice about the choice of words in Newspeak? Use the term big brother to explain your answer.

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

1984

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Part Two audio

• chapter 8

Part Three audio

• chapter 2
• chapter 5

• Big Brother
• Room 101 
• doublethink
• thoughtcrime
• Newspeak
• memory hole
• Ministry of Truth (minitrue)
• Orwellian

1. Meet the Big Brother Screening Your Social Media for Employers

2. What the bunker mentality really means

Apply Quotes from “1984” to the news today

1. Big Brother is watching you.
2. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
3. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
4. The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
5. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.

Word of the year 2022:

Gaslighting

• the process of making somebody believe untrue things in order to control them, especially that they have imagined or been wrong about what has really happened