Genre Study – Reading Reflection

Task: Your presentation will need to draw on a number of texts that are exemplars of your genre. While reading, you will
need to take notes and reflect on how your text reflects the genre.

Consider the following questions while you read:

 What are the literary features, or codes and conventions, of the text that lend itself to your genre.
 Are there particular character archetypes, settings, plot points, imagery and language styles?
 Does the author experiment with, subvert, or alter anything that defies your expectation of the genre?
 Are there any embedded or subtle comments on, or reflections of, society’s values?
 What are your own individual thoughts on the section you’ve read? What strikes you as important?

Title: 1984

Author: George Orwell

Pages: 393 Chapters: 24

Chapter/Key Plot Summaries
Book 1 Chapter 1: Introduced to the world in the year
1984 and showing who controls most of the world.
Comments (common on the action and consider the key
questions). How can you use the section you’ve read in
your presentation?

Book 1 Chapter 2: We learn about the Party and how

they control everything.

Book 1 Chapter 3:
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