December 2018
Brave New World Resources
Online text of entire novel
Audiobook on Youtube
Key Passage Focused Freewrite assignment
Online text of entire novel
Audiobook on Youtube
Key Passage Focused Freewrite assignment
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Weeks 2 & 3: Brave New Worlds / Are we slaves to our screens?
Monday Dec 10
Tuesday Dec 11 & Wednesday Dec 12
Thursday Dec 13 & Friday Dec 14
Monday Dec 17
Tuesday Dec 18 & Wednesday Dec 19
Thursday Dec 20 & Friday Dec 21
- Brave New Worlds Brainstorm
- Slaves to Our Screens? Challenge #1 begins!
Tuesday Dec 11 & Wednesday Dec 12
- Brave New Worlds: develop, practice, and deliver your pitch
- Challenge #2 and #3
Thursday Dec 13 & Friday Dec 14
- Brave New Worlds: work days
- Challenge #4
Monday Dec 17
- StudentPaths
- Socratic discussion: Slaves to Our Screens (turn in reflections)
- Have phones and social media made our lives better or worse?
Tuesday Dec 18 & Wednesday Dec 19
- Brave New Worlds: progress check-in and work days
Thursday Dec 20 & Friday Dec 21
- Brave New Worlds: work days
- Project is due in class on Friday Dec 21
- If you'll be absent on Friday, then your project is due on your last day in class before Friday
- When turning in project, turn in your rubric and reflection sheet. If turning in a story, song, or script, you must submit it to turnitin.com or it will not receive a grade.
Week 1: BNW Ch. 10-17; The soma rebellion and the showdown; Huxley's allusions; Are we slaves to our screens?
"'But do you like being slaves? . . . I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to or not.'"
Monday Dec 3
Tuesday Dec 4
Wednesday Dec 5
Thursday Dec 6
Friday Dec 7
- Ch. 10-14 Q&A
- Chapter 10: A family reunion in the World State
- What developments occur with Bernard, Linda, John, and the D.H.C.? How was this foreshadowed earlier?
- Chapter 11: John and Lenina go to a Feely
- Compare John and Lenina--how does their date go? Where do they differ? Compare the Feely to Shakespeare's Othello--how is the World State's creation of this Feely similar to their methods with the Solidarity Service from Chapter 5? (Explain how The Feely : Othello as Solidarity Service : Christianity)
- Chapter 12: John's celebrity tour goes awry; Bernard turns resentful on his "victim-friends"; John and Helmholtz attempt a bromance but Bernard trolls them
- How does John's debut in front of these very important World Staters go? How do we see Bernard begin to change as a result (or is he revealing his true colors?)--is Huxley still positioning him as a potential hero, a villain, or neither? How does Helmholtz respond to John's reading of R&J? Why?
- Chapter 13: Lenina's emotions begin to overrun her stability; John's Shakespearean conditioning leads him into an Othello moment; two lovers' worlds collide
- Summarize what happens between John and Lenina here: what is each of them thinking and feeling? How do John's actions parallel his own Shakespearean conditioning? How could we have known this was going to happen even before it happened (dramatic irony at work)?
- Chapter 14: The Park Lane Hospital for the Dying; death-conditioning, "maggoty" children, and chocolate eclairs
- How (and why) does the World State death-condition their children? What happens here to Linda? To John?
- Chapter 10: A family reunion in the World State
- Huxley's allusions: intro, example, partner setup and topic selection
Tuesday Dec 4
- (I'm out today for teacher stuff)
- Read the first two of my three favorite BNW chapters: Ch. 15 and 16 (reading check tomorrow on 10-16)
- Chapter 15: The soma rebellion
- What prior events lead to John's actions in this scene? John has an epiphany in this scene--a sudden realization that causes a shift in his behavior--where does it happen? John utters his famous "O brave new world" refrain once again: why does he say it here? How has it changed since he first said it? What motifs and recurring imagery from the rest of the novel do we see appear again in this scene? What satirical devices are at work in this scene?
- Chapter 16: The man behind the curtain
- According to Mond, why would a society comprised entirely of Alphas be destined to fail? How is Mond's statement that "Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive" true? What are Bernard and Helmholtz's punishments and why does Mond "almost envy" them?
- Chapter 15: The soma rebellion
- (if time) Research your allusion
Wednesday Dec 5
- BNW reading check: Ch. 10-16 (25 points). (Due by 11:59 pm tonight)
- review plot and character developments from these chapters (question format is similar to the 1-9 test), especially Bernard, Linda, Lenina, and John
- review satirical and literary devices (recurring allusions, motifs) we've previously discussed and consider moments where Huxley uses them again in these chapters
- Research your allusion (remember to track your source; you'll need to link them in Flipgrid)
Thursday Dec 6
- Flipgrid: Use your allusion (record it). Due today.
- Link your source (5 points)
- Inform us about the allusion: what do we need to know to understand its connection with BNW? (10 points)
- Explain how the allusion informs meaning in BNW: what insights does it reveal about characters, events, themes, in Huxley’s novel? (10 points)
Friday Dec 7
- Are we slaves to our screens?
- TEDTalk: bored and brilliant
- Brave New Worlds intro
- class/HW: complete the Nearpod survey by Sunday 11:59 pm (see your Schoology updates for code)
- Make sure to click "Submit" after you've answered all survey questions or you will not receive credit.
- class/HW: finish reading Brave New World (Ch. 17 & 18 are all that's left!)
- make note of questions, confusion, comments on the ending