This is our first, introductory page for teaching George Orwell’s essays. Orwell is widely taught in the IB Diploma. Not surprisingly, it is Nineteen Eighty-Four that is most often taught, and it is that novel, along with Animal Farm, that have made Orwell such an enduring favourite with teenage readers. Nevertheless, a lot of critical opinion suggests that Orwell’s best writing was not his fiction (and certainly...