GD_1984_Lesson_Plan_2


 * 1984 Lesson Plans**


 * Title of Lesson: The Secret Police**


 * What the students understand when they finish your lesson with you:**

a) How the actions taken by the secret police in 1984 and V for Vendetta are not really that outrageous – while inhumane and illegal today, they did happen in other dictatorships, like Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.


 * Main Standard you are achieving (the number and full description):**

STANDARD 3.1 (Reading) All students will understand and apply the knowledge of sounds, letters, and words in written English to become independent and fluent readers, and will read a variety of materials and texts with fluency and comprehension.


 * Materials Needed and Technology Used:**

a) Laptop

b) V for Vendetta DVD

c) Digital “handout”

d) Internet access for research


 * Opening Activity Description (What the students and you are doing):**

Watch selected clips from V for Vendetta highlighting the constant spying, secret police brutality in arrests, and inhumane interrogation techniques.


 * Middle/Main Activity Description (What the students and you are doing):**

I will start a discussion with the students on police brutality in 1984. Once this discussion dies out (or after 5 minutes), I will direct the students to go onto their laptops and research the different ways secret police in previous dictatorships maintained order and universal thought in their nations (i.e. erasing dissenters, killing off outliers in the population). They will choose a dictatorship and fill out the digital handout with information they find. After 10 minutes, we will reconvene and discuss what they found.


 * Closing Activity Description (What the students and you are doing):**

To close off the lesson, I will lead a discussion on privacy and police brutality issues in the news today. There isn’t an exact format for this: I hope that the students will guide it more than I will, turning it to the points and topics that are most relevant to them.

Digital Handout: