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This bingo activity contains 24 terms and quotes comparing George Orwell's 1984 and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale for 11th and 12th graders. The word list pairs key concepts from both novels—Thought Police and The Eyes, Newspeak and Under His Eye, Mayday and The Colonies—alongside thematic elements like propaganda and totalitarianism. Use these cards for vocabulary review, class discussion, or as a study tool while reading either or both novels.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Literature
Grade Level:
11th – 12th Grades
Updated April 2026

Word List

  • Handmaid
  • Thought Police
  • The Eyes
  • Outter Party
  • Sex
  • Government
  • Religion
  • “Because they will have no memories, of any other way”
  • “...by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now”
  • Propaganda
  • Prayers
  • The Brotherhood
  • Mayday
  • “Under His Eye”
  • “Big Brother is watching you”
  • Appendix
  • Historical Notes
  • Forced Labor Camp
  • The Colonies
  • “For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, he was writing this diary”
  • “But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.”
  • Newspeak
  • “In the end the Party would announce that two and two make five”
  • Totalitarianism

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