CYCLE ONE MAJOR ESSAY: 1984

OBJECTIVE:
1. Students will know how to explain the concept of a Utopian society. 2. Students will be able to write a 5 page typed essay using 3 quotes, the funnel method and a work cited page.

DIRECTIONS:
1. Answer one of the following essay question option below.

2. Write your essay using the Funnel Method.

3. You are to use 3 quotes from the book "1984".

4. Each quote must be written in the MLA format located on the website below.http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/

5. Your essay must be typed using the following requirements:
a. 12 Point Font Size
b. Times Roman
c. Black Ink Only
d. Double spaced.
e. One inch Margins
f. Indent first line of every new paragraph half an inch.

6. You must write a Work Cited Page or sometimes called a Bibliography pages. Use the above website to find the format. You must use #5 to guide your font.

7. You must create a cover page with the following information on it only.
a. Your Name
b. World History
c. Date
d. Mr. Avery
e. Cycle One Essay Question # ___

ESSAY QUESTION OPTIONS

1. Explain the ways in which an Orwellian society, with a severe lack of personal privacy and freedom, could develop in both a communist and a capitalist society.

2. Explain the meaning of the following quote from page 176, "Thus history is continuously rewritten".

3. Explain how irony was the essential aspect of whether one lived or died in Oceania?

4. What is privacy and in an society does anyone deserve to have it even it the safety of the public is at risk? (Make sure you use 1984 to prove your point. Quote 1984 only to support your answers)

5. What is fear? How did Big Brother use it to control the masses of Oceanianins?

6. What was the authors point in writing the book 1984? Compare that to the reasons used by Christopher Columbus and his men as well as the British colonists of Jamestown in settling in the New World ? Are they the same or different?



ESSAY IS DUE IN TWO WEEKS ON NOVEMBER 25TH THE DAY BEFORE THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.