Explore the rationale behind George Orwell's 1984 being taught in high-school English classes.

A case
can be made for teaching's book to high school students.  The strongest element here would be
that Orwell's book is important for students to understand the nature of external oppression.  
In a world in which students will have to be stronger advocates of being global citizens,
recognizing the lengths and means by which governments go to in order maintain and solidify
control over their people is a lesson that high school students must grasp and Orwell's work
certainly delivers on this element.  Along these lines, I think that a point can be made about
the potential dangers for technology.  Given how so many students, not merely high school
students, are dependent on technology, it might be worthwhile to see how technology is coopted
by Big Brother to control its people.  Imagine the...