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George Orwell's Essays: The Spike

This week, we are publishing teaching materials for the study of George Orwell’s essay 'The Spike'. The page forms part of a series of pages on the literary work, George Orwell's essays. Subscribers can find materials on 'The Spike' here. Over the next few weeks, we will be building the resources, providing a large body of materials that enable you to teach this work. The materials for 'Shooting an Elephant' are available here and materials for 'A Hanging' can be found here. Subscribers can find an introductory, pre-reading page for all the essays here. We hope you enjoy working with the materials.

David and Tim  

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