1. Privacy and Surveillance
What?In the next two lessons, you will read news articles on
Edward Snowden, produce an informative powerpoint or word
document on Snowden and his actions and then consider
questions regarding surveillance and privacy.
Why? (1) Reading news articles improves your reading skills and
close reading skills; and (2) this task will also function as research
for our study of George Orwell’s ‘1984’.

2. What is ‘Surveillance’?

3. What is ‘privacy’?

4. Edward Snowden
Many people feel that Edward Snowden, the 29
year old responsible for leaking top secret details
regarding national surveillance, has opened up
the debate around privacy and forced people to
consider and question the boundaries of
government surveillance.
You are going to spend today’s lesson learning
about and researching Snowden and the
repercussions of this leak.

5. You will demonstrate this understanding by creating
a word document/Powerpoint presentation which
explains:
1) Who Edward Snowden is;
2) What he has done;
3) Why it has caused international uproar;
4) The repercussions of his actions;
5) What you think will happen next with this case.
This should be finished by the end of today’s lesson
and then emailed to shamilton1@edubuzz.org

6. Start here…
• http://news.yahoo.com/timeline-edward-
snowdens-life-know-215318119--abc-news-
topstories.html
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/1
1/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-profile
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/0
6/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/1
7/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower

7. Start here…
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2
013/jun/21/obama-national-security-state-
rogue
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/2
2/nsa-leaks-britain-us-surveillance
• http://theweek.com/article/index/245788/ha
s-snowden-crossed-a-red-line

8. Once you’ve created your
Powerpoint/Word document and
emailed it to Miss Hamilton, you are
ready to consider privacy and
surveillance more generally…

9. Answer these questions on paper and hand it in to Miss Hamilton at
the end of the lesson.
Many people feel that Edward Snowden, the 29 year old
responsible for leaking top secret details regarding national
surveillance, has opened up the debate around privacy and forced
people to consider and question the boundaries of government
surveillance.
1. To what extent do you think this is the case?
2. How do you feel about the revelations regarding the extent of the
US Government’s surveillance?
3. Do you think Snowden was wrong to leak details of national
security? Explain your answer fully.
4. Do you have a problem with your Government accessing your
emails, texts, tweets, Facebook status updates, photos etc?
Explain your answer.
5. Lots of people are saying that if you have nothing to hide then you
should have no problem with surveillance. To what extent do you
agree with this? Explain your answer fully.