Book Summary For 1984 – Nineteen Eighty-Four

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for 1984 – Nineteen Eighty-Four appears in order of appearance:

  • Part I
    I: depict, simultaneously, predicament, interminable, unorthodox, renegade, polysyllabic, refute, flog, inscrutable
    II: discountenanced, gamboling, saboteur, raspingly, reverberate
    III: reproach, fathom, disdain, annihilate, repudiate, shrewish
    IV: orifice, collate, multifarious, kaleidoscope, denounce, implicate
    V: hoard, remorselessly, venerate, heretic, catapult, irrepressible, proliferate
    VI: debauchery, promiscuity, aquiline
    VII: jostle, flog, listless, incriminate, posterity, stratum
    VIII: balminess, sordid, altercation, meditatively, innumerable, cumbersome, officiousness, unprocurable
  • Part II
    I: niggling, hallucination, malignant, guise
    II: dapple, swine, strenuousness
    III: demeanor, stagnant, commodity, chastity
    IV: inconceivable, eccentricity, unendurable
    V: effigies, rowdy, indignation, perish, mutability
    VI: invariably
    VII: queue, intermittent, luminous, scrounge, pathos, remonstrance, proles
    VIII: intimidate, wainscoting, salutation, allusion
    IX: fretted, voluptuous, reprisal, fecundity, dilapidated, ravage, austere, spurious, preponderance, tacitly, ruminant, plunder, irrevocable, irreconcilable, recurrence, hierarchy, infallible, oligarchical, scrutinize, dissipate, repression
    X: supple, reverence
  • Part III
    I: gnawing, peddler, timorously, irony
    II: sabotage, truncheon, embezzlement, inquisitor, despicable
    III: bludgeon, forlorn, degradation
    IV: taut, improvisation
    V: interpose
    VI: haggling, digression, tiddlywinks

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