DoubleThink: Course Outline
Choosing Doublethink as your English programme for Level 3 means that, you probably find the darker, more dystopian aspects of world literature attractive; you’re somehow inexorably drawn to the unusual and deep down you sense that something is rotten in the state of… This programme will take a media-savvy journalistic approach. You’ll need to think fast, question everything and be willing to speak up. You will be asked to challenge yourself, take risks and show ambition.
Selected Quotations from Nineteen Eighty Four
It was conceivable that they watched everybody all the time “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained …
Radiohead: Idioteque, 2+2=5, Electioneering, Fake Plastic Trees and Planet Telex
Fake Plastic Trees: A green plastic watering can For a fake Chinese rubber plant In the fake plastic earth That she bought from a rubber man In a town full of rubber plans To get …
Practise Paper: 3.1 Extended Written Text – Nineteen Eighty Four
91472 Respond critically to speci ed aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence. 4 Credits. External
3.7 Significant Connections – Dystopian Genre Study
This task is an extension of our Dystopian genre study. This is an opportunity to explore how the unifying elements of the genre are employed across different texts by different authors to form warnings about the future.
Practise Paper: 3.2 Film Study – Minority Report
91473 Respond critically to speci ed aspect(s) of studied visual or oral text(s), supported by evidence. 4 Credits. External
Chapter One: Task Outline
This task is an extension of our genre study of the dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. This is an opportunity to create your own dystopia, grounded in the socio-political anxieties of our time.
The Grammar of Dystopia
The Dystopia genre has its own grammar – This close reading of the opening page of Nineteen Eighty-Four offers a clear insight into the grammatical means by which George Orwell infused his futuristic vision with an eerie authenticity.
Practise Analysis – Sample Response 2
“In the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” In a visual text the most significant ideas are often conveyed through the images and symbols presented to the viewer. The film Minority Report, …
Practice Analysis – Sample Response
Good literature enlightens; great literature inspires action Some may believe that literature’s role is largely archival, that it simply records moments of human endeavour and imagination, thereby making the great literary canon simply a vault, …
