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1984 Anticipation Guide

This document is an anticipation guide for George Orwell's novel 1984. It contains 25 statements about government, society, and history for the reader to agree or disagree with before and after reading the novel. The statements cover topics like the role of government, surveillance, freedom, history, and inhuman leaders and systems of government from the past. The purpose is for the reader to critically evaluate their initial beliefs about these issues and see how their views may change after reading 1984, which is a dystopian novel about totalitarian government control.

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1984 Anticipation Guide

This document is an anticipation guide for George Orwell's novel 1984. It contains 25 statements about government, society, and history for the reader to agree or disagree with before and after reading the novel. The statements cover topics like the role of government, surveillance, freedom, history, and inhuman leaders and systems of government from the past. The purpose is for the reader to critically evaluate their initial beliefs about these issues and see how their views may change after reading 1984, which is a dystopian novel about totalitarian government control.

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_____________________________________ Anticipation Guide for George Orwell’s 1984

Before reading: In the space to the left of each statement, place a check mark if you agree or think the
statement is true.

During and/or after reading: Add new check marks or cross through those about which you have changed
your mind. Keep in mind that this is not like the traditional “worksheet.” This is a critical thinking
exercise, so it will require some work. Use the space under each statement to note the pages where you
are finding information to support your thinking.

_____ 1. Our government should have a big role in our lives.

_____ 2. Nazi Party members were good people before they became Nazis.

_____ 3. Globalization is a good thing.

_____ 4. Technological innovation is a good thing.

_____ 5. Surveillance only protects people.

_____ 6. Our government should help us decide our ethics.

_____ 7. Sexual freedom is one freedom that allows people to be individuals.

_____ 8. We need “characters” among us to enhance life.

_____ 9. Children are tape recorders of their parents; they have very few thoughts of their own.

_____ 10. Every person has some irrational fear.

_____ 11. We really need to study history more carefully than we already are.

_____ 12. Mankind is the cruelest of all beasts, because when we hurt other people, we realize they are
being hurt; when cats play with and eat mice, the cat has no idea that the mouse is in pain. This makes
people the least respectable of all species (concept from Mark Twain’s The Damned Human Race).

_____ 13. If you take a person’s language and verbal skills away, you are also taking a person’s thoughts
and ideas away.
_____ 14. That the dictionary has continued to expand is a good thing.

_____ 15. We will always clash with the Middle East; Islam does not mesh with democracy.

_____ 16. Our society needs as many laws as possible—or as necessary.

_____ 17. We are trustworthy people in the United States.

_____ 18. Searches at airports are getting ridiculously strict.

_____ 19. If you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide—so any access to your personal
information is fine with you.

_____ 20. Elite, rich people should be in charge of our country.

_____ 21. A rise like Nazism would never happen here in the States.

_____ 22. Communism is inherently evil.

_____ 23. Joseph Stalin was inhuman.

_____ 24. Adolf Hitler was inhuman.

_____ 25. Slave owners were inhuman.

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