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Bloom's Literature: How to Write about Nineteen Eighty Four ActivityBloom's Literature: How to Write about Nineteen Eighty Four Activity
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Bloom's Literature: How to Write about Nineteen Eighty Four

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A good prompt is hard to find, especially ones that encourage application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of a text. Help is here in the form of a prompt list for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four that offers essay topics that address various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

george orwell, 1984, compare and contrast essays, essay questions, essay writing, expository essays, literary analysis

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english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Introduce Bloom's Taxonomy at the beginning of the school year and encourage class members to apply the process to discussions of any text

Classroom Considerations

  • Knowledge of Bloom's Taxonomy is helpful but not necessary

Pros

  • The resources offers sample prompts for essays focused on themes, character, history and context, philosophy and ideas, form and genre, language, symbols, imagery, and compare and contrast

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.9-10.1.a W.9-10.2.a W.11-12.1.a W.11-12.2.a

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