Chapter 1

1984 Chapter 1

Annotation Guide

Directions

• READie READie! (don't smoke the weedie)

• Let me know if you want to check out a hard copy

• Write/Type annotations that summarize the chapter and highlight the important quotes, characters, and events

Annotation Guidelines:

• These annotations must be typed and submitted to Schoology. They will be scanned for plagiarism, so don’t even consider copying and pasting from a website source.

• Each annotation should be either 1 paragraph in length OR 2-3 bullet points of pertinent information

• You must annotate each chapter of the book

Annotate:

• Important Quotes

• Symbolism

• Characters

• Historical Events that relate to the events in the story

• Major Plot Developments

• Vocabulary Terms

Annotations can answer the following questions:

• What happened in this chapter that was important?

• Which characters are impactful to the story?

• What do you enjoy/not enjoy about a particular part of the story?

• What have you learned about your own life from reading this story?

• What have you learned about history from reading this historical fiction?

Multiple Choice

"Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons" What kind of imagery does Orwell use to describe Miniluv?

• Dystopian

• War-torn

• Terrifying

• Oppressive

Open Ended

Winston describes his city as having "bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses"

This passage provide a few different options for annotation. Practice by writing about the vocab word or the imagery. Please comment with one bullet point or sentence

Multiple Choice

For each chapter of 1984, students must make one annotation including...

• 3 paragraphs or 10 bullet points

• 1 paragraph or 3 bullet points

• 2 paragraphs

• a summary copied from a website

Thank you!

Wishing you a good day - now let's make some annotations