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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - An extensive collection of teaching resources for KS4 English prose, including the classic texts and more obscure works. With free PDFs to download.
Orwell began supporting himself by writing book reviews for the New English Weekly until 1940. During World War II he was a member of the Home Guard and in 1941 began work for the BBC Eastern Service, mostly working on programmes to gain Indian and East Asian support for Britain's war efforts.
A set of free teaching Resources and ideas relating to Animal Farm by George Orwell. This Script Writing Activity combines text analysis with a piece of creative writing. The activity could be adapted to make use of multimedia software to create and record a news broadcast based on events in the story.
Back in England, Orwell earned his living by teaching and by writing occasional articles, while he completed several versions of his first book, Down and Out in London and Paris. This novel recorded his experiences in the East End and in Paris.
Like much of Orwell's work, his essays form the core curriculum in the English education system which has led many to voice concern over the politicizing of children's education and the obvious bias in ideological teaching.
George Orwell and Education uses Orwell’s life and works to address current educational questions. His early life, political awakening and artistic development are key elements in the book’s presentation of Orwell himself as a learner, and as someone whose ideas continue to speak to contemporary debates about human interdependency.
PDF Document. Word Count: 2639. The essay is divided into sections with the following sub-headings: 1) Introduction. 2) Social Isolation of Individuals. 3) Social Isolation of Groups. 4) Social Isolation through Compartmentalization (Isolation Between Genders) 5) Psychological Isolation. 6) Isolation of Memories.