Newspeak Vocabulary in 1984
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1984 by George Orwell
Lesson Plans by Kristy Littlehale
Published in 1949, shortly after the end of World War II and during the rise of Communist powers such as Russia and Korea, Orwell’s novel warns readers of important issues that become the novel’s key themes, including government overreach, propaganda, and the importance of free thought and speech.
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1984 Vocabulary lesson plan Graphic Organizer from 1984 book Newspeak
Storyboard Text
- ORTHODOXY
- TWO MINUTES HATE Emmanuel Goldstein: Enemy of the State
- CRIMESTOP
- Freedom...
- STOP
- CRIMETHINK / THOUGHTCRIME
- “To think in an orthodox (or acceptable) manner”
- “The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought”
- “Thoughtcrime is death”; thoughts that run contradictory to the ideology put forth by the Party
- DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
- DOUBLETHINK
- We are at war with Eastasia and always have been!
- We are at war with Eurasia and always have been!
- NEWSPEAK VOCAB
- UNPERSON
- To hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously
- MONDAY
- TUESDAY
- A person who has been “vaporized” and written out of existence
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