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Study Guide:

A ninth grader is responsible for mastering certain learning goals over the course of her/his year. As a result, teachers use anchor texts, writing assignments, poetry, and drama, to teach students the learning goals through different genres. Although it is important apply these skills to the texts in ninth grade, it is equally important to apply the learning goals to new information you have never seen before. Why? Because mastering a skill means you can notice it in other areas of your life and you can use the skill you learned to critically think about new information beyond the classroom.

Completing this study guide will help you get ready to apply your mastery beyond the reading of 1984 and help to prepare you to show mastery on the summative assessment for this unit.

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  I can read closely and find answers explicitly in text and answers that require an inference.
  
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  I can analyze how specific word choices build upon one another to create a cumulative impact on the overall meaning and tone of a text (i.e., denotative, connotative, figurative)
  

plastered everywhere. The black moustachio’d face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own. Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC. In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.

1. 
   What can you infer about the passage? Check all that apply
   
   1. 
      Big Brother is an authoritarian figure who should be feared
      
   2. 
      The setting of Oceania is a healthy place to live
      
   3. 
      People of Oceania do not have free will
      
   4. 
      People cannot escape the oppressiveness of BB
      
2. 
   Circle 5 words that strongly impact the text.
   
3. 
   Choose 3 of the strongest words and write them in the table below and complete the chart:
   

Word	Denotation	connotation	tone
commanding	appreciably superior or imposing; winning; sizable:	Overpowering and fearful	Egotistical
harsh	grim or unpleasantly severe; stern; cruel; austere:	Negative behavior or feelings	Forceful
snooping	to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.	Negative way of intruding into someone’s life	Deceptive

4. 
   Based upon the chart, what tone is revealed in this passage? (look at your tone worksheet if that helps—this was given to you in class)
   

“The Open Window” by Saki

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a14340/ray-bradbury-last-night-of-the-world-0251/

"What would I do; you mean, seriously?"

"Yes, seriously."

"I don't know — I hadn't thought. She turned the handle of the silver coffeepot toward him and placed the two cups in their saucers.

"Well, better start thinking about it," he said.

"You don't mean it?" said his wife.

He nodded.

"A war?"

He shook his head.

"Not the hydrogen or atom bomb?"

"No."

"None of those at all," he said, stirring his coffee slowly and staring into its black depths. "But just the closing of a book, let's say."

"I don't think I understand."

"No, nor do I really. It's just a feeling; sometimes it frightens me, sometimes I'm not frightened at all — but peaceful." He glanced in at the girls and their yellow hair shining in the bright lamplight, and lowered his voice. "I didn't say anything to you. It first happened about four nights ago."

"What?"


2. How is this passage similar to 1984? Explain and support answer with TE.

Winston also hears a voice in a dream. He hears O’Brien saying “we will meet in the place with no darkness”. This dream propels Winston’s relationship with O’Brien and enables him to quickly trust him. In the short story, the father also believes the dream and doesn’t question where it came from or its credibility. He just prepares to kill his daughter because he was “told” to do so. Both stories show that listening to dreams or voices without further investigation can lead to disaster.
"A dream I had. I dreamt that it was all going to be over and a voice said it was; not any kind of voice I can remember, but a voice anyway, and it said things would stop here on Earth. I didn't think too much about it when I awoke the next morning, but then I went to work and the feeling as with me all day. I caught Stan Willis looking out the window in the middle of the afternoon and I said, 'Penny for your thoughts, Stan,' and he said, 'I had a dream last night,' and before he even told me the dream, I knew what it was. I could have told him, but he told me and I listened to him."(2)

"It was the same dream?"

"Yes. I told Stan I had dreamed it, too. He didn't seem surprised. He relaxed, in fact. Then we started walking through offices, for the hell of it. It wasn't planned. We didn't say, let's walk around. We just walked on our own, and everywhere we saw people looking at their desks or their hands or out the windows and not seeing what was in front of their eyes. I talked to a few of them; so did Stan."

"And all of them had dreamed?"

"All of them. The same dream, with no difference."

"Do you believe in the dream?"

"Yes. I've never been more certain."

"And when will it stop? The world, I mean."

"Sometime during the night for us, and then, as the night goes on around the world, those advancing portions will go, too. It'll take twenty-four hours for it all to go."


3. What can you infer about this passage? Explain?

This shows they are unfazed by the fact that they are so brainwashed by their government that or fine with the fact that this is the end of the world- When it states, they sat , then lifted, then looked. It shows they pause for a moment in the harshness of the situation, but then carry on with enjoying the evening. No choice. So they just sit paralyzed.
They sat awhile not touching their coffee. Then they lifted it slowly and drank, looking at each other. (3)

"Do we deserve this?" she said.

"I guess I have a reason," she said.

"The same reason everyone at the office had?"

She nodded. "I didn't want to say anything. It happened last night. And the women on the block are talking about it, just among themselves." She picked up the evening paper and held it toward him. "There's nothing in the news about it."

"No, everyone knows, so what's the need?" He took the paper and sat back in his chair, looking at the girls and then at her. "Are you afraid?"

"No. Not even for the children. I always thought I would be frightened to death, but I'm not."


5. How would Winston respond to this passage? Why?

Winston would be upset that the father is not trying to stop this. He would shake this man and say the only way to change your life is to speak your truth. And the truth is that things can change if one wants to fight/ speak up for it. At least ask questions---Try to stop the end.
"Where's that spirit of self-preservation the scientists talk about so much?"(5)

"I don't know. You don't get too excited when you feel things are logical. This is logical. Nothing else but this could have happened from the way we've lived."

"We haven't been too bad, have we?"

"No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble. We haven't been very much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of quite awful things."

The girls were laughing in the parlor as they waved their hands and tumbled down their house of blocks.

"I always imagined people would be screaming in the streets at a time like this."

"I guess not. You don't scream about the real thing."

"Do you know, I won't miss anything but you and the girls. I never liked cities or autos or factories or my work or anything except you three. I won't miss a thing except my family and perhaps the change in the weather and a glass of cool water when the weather's hot, or the luxury of sleeping. Just little things, really. How can we sit here and talk this way?"

"Because there's nothing else to do."(6)


6. What can be inferred by his passage? Why?

A few things can be inferred. First, when she says she will miss her family, it can be inferred that the relationships and love that families create are the most important things in a life. They bring purpose and joy. Therefore, caring and loving others is more important than any other action. Secondly, she states that the little things will be missed. For example, it is not wealth, or status, but the small pleasures of life that should be treasured.

"That's it, of course, for if there were, we'd be doing it. I suppose this is the first time in the history of the world that everyone has really known just what they were going to be doing during the last night."

"I wonder what everyone else will do now, this evening, for the next few hours."

"Go to a show, listen to the radio, watch the TV, play cards, put the children to bed, get to bed themselves, like always."

"In a way that's something to be proud of — like always."

"We're not all bad."

"Well," he said. "What shall it be? Wash the dishes?"

They washed the dishes carefully and stacked them away with especial neatness. At eight-thirty the girls were put to bed and kissed good night and the little lights by their beds turned on and the door left a trifle open.

"I wonder," said the husband, coming out and looking back, standing there with his pipe for a moment."

"What?"

"I wonder if the children know — if anyone mentioned anything to them?"

"No, of course not. They'd have asked us about it."

They sat and read the papers and talked and listened to some radio music and then sat together by the fireplace looking at the charcoal embers as the clock struck ten-thirty and eleven and eleven-thirty. They thought of all the other people in the world who had spent their evening, each in their own special way.

"Well," he said at last. He kissed his wife for a long time.

"We've been good for each other, anyway."

"Do you want to cry?" he asked.

"I don't think so."

They went through the house and turned out the lights and locked the doors, and went into the bedroom and stood in the night cool darkness undressing. She took the spread from the bed and folded it carefully over a chair, as always, and pushed back the covers. "The sheets are so cool and clean and nice," she said.

"I'm tired."

"We're both tired."

They got into bed and lay back.

"Wait a moment," she said.


7. What is the inferred irony? Because the world is ending so turning off the water is not impt.

The irony is that the world will end and that turning off the water doesn’t matter because the end of the world is happening
He heard her get up and go out into the back of the house, and then he heard the soft shuffling of a swinging door. A moment later she was back. "I left the water running in the kitchen," she said. "I turned the faucet off." (7)


8. what can you infer about the last line “dear….”?----The world ends-----ends abruptly in mid sentence.

9. Write three character traits of the wife throughout the short story

She laughed with him, knowing what it was that she had done that was so funny. They stopped laughing at last and lay in their cool night bed, their hands clasped, their heads together.

"Good night," he said, after a moment.

"Good night," she said, adding softly, "dear..." (8)

10. What is the purpose of expository writing? To explain

11. What is the format for an expository essay? (use a double chunk paragraph)

Intro? Lead, Background Information, Thesis

Body? TS, TE, COMM, TE, COMM, CS

Conclusion? Restate/reimagine thesis, summarize, leave audience with a lasting impression

12. Write an expository essay using the following theme statement:

1. 
   Using two examples from Winton’s character in Books I, II or III, explain how he reveals that technology will eventually lead to dehumanization of a culture.
   

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