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Euphemisms
Kind of Activity:
Individual Writing
Objective:
To understand the use of euphemisms in The Giver
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6-8.4
Structure:
Assign students' this passage from George Orwell's 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language, available here:
"...political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no...
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