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Monday 26 Formative 1 due Review packet and calendar Brave New World Introduction Tuesday 27 SAT Warm up In class reading: 3-29 Discuss the society and population presented in the beginning of the novel HW: 30-56 4 Reading Due: 140-171 Socratic Seminar on the reading. This will be explained more in depth in class. HW:172-197 Reading Calendar Wednesday Thursday 28 Interims 29 SAT warm up SAT warm up Reading Due: 30-56 Discuss Audens Unknown Citizen HW: 57-86, rewrite Audens poem 5 Reading Due: 172-197 Writing lesson: Correctly using quotations HW: 198-229 Reading Due:5786 Share Auden rewrites HW 87-139, Write a 1 page reflection on the reading. Friday 30 NO SCHOOL TEACHER WORK DAY
6 Reading Due: 198-229 Current Event discussion changing history HW: 230-259 (end) Write a 1 page reflection on the end of the book 13 Dystopia Project Presentations
7 Early Release Reading Due: 230-259 HW: Finish Reading questions for discussion on Monday
Assessments: Daily reading quizzes Theme questions from packet Literary paper comparing Huxley and Orwell Dystopia Project Introduction: Historical background on Brave New World Introduction to behavioral conditioning and the science of learning
GROUP 1
Directions: Read the following article and annotate it. Discuss the article with the other people in your group. Be prepared to present your article to the other groups.
GROUP 2
Directions: Read the following article and annotate it. Discuss the article with the other people in your group. Be prepared to present your article to the other groups.
response. After associating the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus, the sound of the bell alone will start to evoke salivating as a response. The sound of the bell is now known as the conditioned stimulus and salivating in response to the bell is known as the conditioned response.
GROUP 3
Directions: Read the following article and annotate it. Discuss the article with the other people in your group. Be prepared to present your article to the other groups.
Overscheduled people often look at sleep as wasted time. If we can multi-task while were awake, why not while asleep? That question leads many to consider whether they can learn something while sleeping. There are businesses that sell recordings designed to play to the sleeping student in hopes of imparting knowledge, or at least a change in attitude or habits. While the viability of these techniques is not out of the question, there has been surprisingly little scientific investigation of sleep learning. Hypnopaedia is a fancy name for sleep learning. In the mid-20th Century serious researchers found positive results, and sleep-learning entered the popular consciousness. It was used in the dystopian novels Brave New World and Clockwork Orange. A more positive use of sleep learning was encouraged by people who sold records designed to play while the listener was asleep. Commercially, things havent changed much although the recordings you find today are more likely to be digital. Such hard evidence as we have suggests that these methods can be effective in getting people to remember rote facts. It does not appear to be effective in promoting more subtle and substantial learning. However, little recent formal scientific investigation has been done on the question.
GROUP 4
Directions: Read the following article and annotate it. Discuss the article with the other people in your group. Be prepared to present your article to the other groups.
interpretations. Secondly, the experiment also raises many ethical concerns. The Little Albert experiment could not be conducted by today's standards because it would be unethical.
Texas school districts are able to buy books that the state board rejects but designates as containing at least half the required curriculum -- but they'll have to use their own money to do so. Almost all currently use state funds to buy textbooks off the approved list, said Suzanne Marchman, a spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency. One publisher said Tuesday that changes in technology, including the introduction of online components, make it easier and cheaper to tailor textbooks to specific states and requirements, and downplayed the impact that Texas's decisions would have on the rest of the country. "We now have the ability to deliver completely customized content" to different states, said Joseph Blumenfeld, spokesman for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of three major publishers that supply Texas with most of its social studies textbooks. But some historians weren't so certain. Fischer, who is a historian at University of Northern Colorado, noted that first-year teachers fall back on what's most readily available to them -- their textbooks. "Teachers have a lot to do and a lot on their plate, and if there's a nice big textbook that the kids have been taking home, they'll use it," he said
Many Republicans argue that there is currently a liberal bias in the media; therefore this is simply an effort to give a more balanced view of history. Do you agree? Elaborate.
Reading Guide
Directions: As you read, answer the following questions. These completed questions will be due on Monday, October 10th for discussion. We will use these as a starting point for our dystopia paper.
1. 2. 3. 4. Chapters 1 5: Explain and analyze the caste system: how it is achieved and what are its uses and benefits to this society. Cite any contemporary parallels in our society. Explain and analyze the significance of consumerism in this culture. Cite any contemporary parallels in our society. Explain how morality and values are instilled and controlled in this population. Cite any contemporary parallels in our society. Analyze the dramatic effect of Huxleys use in Chapter 3 of interfacing fragments of dialog, independent of setting or explanation, from varying scenes. What is the main idea being conveyed through this cacophony? How are natural instincts/human nature regulated in this society? Cite any contemporary parallels in our society. Chapters 6 10: Explain and analyze how (and why) Bernard Marx is so different from his fellows. Explain and analyze the role of individualism in this society. Explain and analyze Lindas experience on the reservation. Although raised by Linda, a product of civilization, John has taken on the characteristics of a savage. Explain and analyze why this is so and what these characteristics are that make John uncivilized.
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Chapters 10 15: 10. Explain the irony contained in the scene in Chapter 10. 11. Explain and analyze the choice that Linda makes when she returns to civilization. How does her choice benefit this society? Are todays medical advances to prolong the lives of terminally ill patients, as well as assisted suicide, parallels to the path Linda chooses? Explain. 12. Compare and contrast Helmholtz Watson to Bernard Marx (you may need to look at Helmholtzs introduction in Chapter 4 as well). Explain and analyze the disturbance that his original rhyme creates (Chapter 12). 13. Based on what you know about John, explain his reaction to Lenina in Chapter 13, and his reaction to Lindas fate in Chapter 14. Chapters 15 18 14. Explain Mirandas proclamation, O brave new world! (defined in Chapter 15) as it applies to this society. Cite any contemporary parallels in our society. 15. Describe Mustapha Mond and explain why, given his knowledge and instincts, he chose the path he has taken. 16. At the end of Chapter 15, Mond explains how and why this society came into being. Do you agree or disagree with his assessment? Explain your position and how Monds conclusions apply to our contemporary society. 17. In Chapter 17, God and humankind and their relationship to one another are discussed. Explain Johns and Monds positions and provide your opinion(s) on this topic. 18. Explain and analyze what happens to John at the end of the novel. Compare and contrast the choices he makes in Chapter 18 to the choice his mother Linda makes on her return to civilization.
Dystopia Project
A dystopia takes current trends and exaggerates them, pushing them to the extreme in order to criticize them. Even though it is an extreme, most of the ideas are still LOGICAL progressions. CREATE YOUR OWN DYSTOPIA You are going to create your own dystopia. Choose several trends that you see today and imagine how these trends progress in 30-50 years. Take these trends to the extreme in order to point out how these trends could be dangers. For example, trends you could choose could include: cellphone technology, commercialism, obesity, alcoholism, television entertainment, virtual reality, robotics, governmental inaction, pettiness in politics, social networking, etc. The assignment: Create your own dystopic story that imagines an exaggeration of a current trend The story could take the form of one of the following: o Short story that is at least 2 pages typed, double spaced. o DETAILED cartoon strip including at least 20 frames o Skit which lasts 5 minutes minimum o Poem/ballad that is at least 1 page long o Diary entries from someone who lived in that society (2 pages) o Television commercialswrite the script and film the commercial You should include a brainstorm that includes: o the trend(s) you want to exaggerate o a general outline of your world o some of the details you want to include in your dystopia. Hint: One way to structure your story could simply be to relate a normal, day-in-the-life story of someone who lives in your society. It could be a high school scene, a work scene, etc.
Rubric: _____/10 Creativity and presentation _____/20 Includes dystopic qualities (from notes) _____/20 Accurately exaggerates a current trend in order to critique it _____/50 Total
Your essay will be graded on the following rubric: ____/10 Introduction has a brief summary of each book ____/10 Thesis statement clearly states your argument ____/20 Each body paragraph enhances and elaborates on the thesis ____/20 Effective use of quotes to prove your points ____/30 Effectively evaluates each novel ____/20 Makes a cohesive argument for which is more applicable to todays world ____/30 3-4 pages ____/10 No grammar, punctuation, spelling errors. ____/150 Points Total