Cause and Effect Relationships

This cause and effect relationships worksheet helps students in Grades 9, 10, and 11 strengthen analytical reading, inferential reasoning, and understanding of narrative logic through George Orwell’s 1984. By examining key causes from the novel and determining their logical effects, learners analyze how individual actions, Party control, and ideological manipulation drive plot developments and shape character motivations.

Learning Goals

• Cause & Effect Analysis (Grades 9-11): Students identify how specific events and decisions lead to direct and indirect consequences in the story.
• Inferential Reading Skills: Learners move beyond surface-level events to explain why outcomes occur.
• Character Motivation & Control: Students analyze how fear, surveillance, and power influence behavior and decisions.
• Explanation with Textual Support: Learners write clear explanations that connect causes to effects using evidence from the novel.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with secondary ELA literature standards.
• Structured Reasoning Format: Requires students to identify an effect and explain the logical connection.
• Builds Deeper Plot Understanding: Highlights how Orwell constructs oppression through interconnected actions.
• Flexible Use: Suitable for classwork, homework, formative assessment, discussion prep, or homeschool instruction.

This cause and effect relationships worksheet helps students deepen comprehension of 1984 by tracing how actions within a totalitarian system produce inevitable consequences. By explaining why events unfold as they do, learners strengthen critical thinking, inferential reasoning, and evidence-based writing. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this printable activity offers a clear, low-prep way to analyze plot dynamics and the mechanisms of control at work in Orwell’s novel.

This worksheet is part of our 1984 Literature Study collection.