Big Brother is Watching You

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Homework for February 4, 2020
The book of the month is 1984 by George Orwell

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Level 1

Read the following excerpt and answer the questions

“The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound… would be picked up by it… [You] could be seen as well as be heard. How often, on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time… You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct. In the assumption that every sound you made was overheard....” (Chapter 1, page 3)

Questions: underline the answers

1. How were the citizens “watched” by their government?
2. What was the author trying to explain in the excerpt you just read?

  3. Who were the individuals watching the movement of the citizens in chapter one?

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level 2

Questions:

1. How were the citizens “watched” by their government?

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1. What was the author trying to explain in the excerpt you just read?

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  3. Who were the individuals watching the movement of the citizens in chapter one?

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Level 3

Questions:

1. Describe how were the citizens “watched” by their government?

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1. Explain what was the author trying to explain in the excerpt you just read?

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  3. Who were the individuals watching the movement of the citizens in chapter one?

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