March 19, 2018 - March 23, 2018 Weekly Schedule for ERWC

Monday, March 19th:

8:20 – Log onto your schoology account and access the Brave New World test. The test is open from 8:20 to 9:13. You have one attempt. It is a multiple choice test. Choose carefully!

For homework:

Please read Chapter Four, Part 2, Chapter Five, Parts 1 and 2 to Chapter 6

Please write a brief summary of what you have read. Please use your own words. Do not copy from eNotes!!!!!

Please write a brief character analysis – IN YOUR OWN WORDS!  DO NOT COPY FROM eNOTES! 

Please write any thing you notice about  the character’ behavior that is a result of their conditioning in the World State culture. For example, Lenina’s promiscuity or the fact she hates the color green or the fact she is glad she is not a gamma is a result of her hynopaedic conditioning.

Note interesting character traits; for example, the fact that Bernard Marx is uncomfortable and hurt over Lenina’s promiscuity. Remember that monogamy is actively discouraged in the World State Culture.

Make note of any figurative language you encounter in your reading. Write the quotation in which the figurative language occurs; then describe the effect of the figurative language.

Example:

Page 64; “He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from an annihilating dark stupor….He smiled up with a doggily expectant adoration into the faces of his passengers.” This is an example of animal imagery, comparing the lower caste members of the society to animals, which reveals the dehumanizing effects of the Bokanovsky process on the government selected victims.

Please write unfamiliar words and their definition.

Example:

Stupor: (noun) a state of near unconsciousness or insensibility.

This is due on Tuesday, March 20th.

Tuesday, March 20th: 
If you were absent yesterday, please go onto schoology and take the Brave New World test over Chapters 1 - 3. 

Today we will go over the grammar in Module 8. 
We will then read Brave New World.

For homework tonight:
Please read and do your reading log over Chapter 6, Part 1 and Part 2, pages 87 - 106

Please write a brief summary of what you have read. Please use your own words. Do not copy from eNotes!!!!!

Please write a brief character analysis – IN YOUR OWN WORDS!  DO NOT COPY FROM eNOTES! 

Please write any thing you notice about  the character’ behavior that is a result of their conditioning in the World State culture. For example, Lenina’s promiscuity or the fact she hates the color green or the fact she is glad she is not a gamma is a result of her hynopaedic conditioning.

Note interesting character traits; for example, the fact that Bernard Marx is uncomfortable and hurt over Lenina’s promiscuity. Remember that monogamy is actively discouraged in the World State Culture.

Make note of any figurative language you encounter in your reading. Write the quotation in which the figurative language occurs; then describe the effect of the figurative language.

Please write down any unfamiliar words and find their definitions.
This will be due on Wednesday, March 21st.

Review grammar:

Module 8

Although a small minority of juvenile criminals will continue to commit crimes,

However, a small minority of juvenile criminals will continue to commit crimes.

Activity 2: Selecting Active Verbs

1.     A teenager was the killer of my younger sister and her husband in 1990, in suburban Chicago.

2.     She asked for the life of her unborn child as he shot her.

3.     He said to a friend that it was a “thrill kill.”

4.     There are some advocates who wish to minimize these offenders’ culpability.

5.     This is a particular problem that American have to own, with weapons so easily available.

6.     There are teens who commit murder at alarming rates in the U.S.

7.     There is evidence that demonstrates that teens murder at a lower rate in other countries compared to the U.S.

Submit to 3/20 Daily Work on schoology

Wednesday, March 21st:  

Activity 3 of Module 8

Underline the adverbs and the adverbial phrases in these sentences . Then write the question or questions they are asking.

These are some of the questions that adverbial phrases answer:

Adverbial phrases provide information about time.

Adverbial phrases provide information about place.

Adverbial phrases provide information about frequency. (How often does it happen?)

Adverbial phrases provide information about direction. (Example: Towards adult)

Adverbial phrases provide information about duration. (How long?)

Adverbial phrases provide information about the manner. (How was it done?)

Adverbial phrases provide information about the cause. (Why did it happen or what caused it to happen.)

Adverbial phrases provide information about the purpose. (Why? Example: In order to reduce crime.)

1.     In the late 1980’s, an influential group of criminologists predicted a wave of violent juvenile crimes. When did they predict a wave of violent juvenile crimes?

2.     Violent juvenile crime has declined steadily through the present day.

Until when?

3.     Juvenile life sentences are not imposed anywhere else in the world.

Underline the adverbial phrase, and then write the question the phrase is answering.

4.     But the prediction of a generation of superpredators never came to pass.

Underline the adverbial phrase and then write the question the phrase answers.

5.     Young people are biologically different from adults.

Underline the adverbial phrase and then write the question the phrase answers.

6.     In 2005, the Supreme Court recognized that “juvenile offenders cannot with reliability be classified among the worst offender.”

Underline the adverbial phrase and then write the question the phrase answers.

7.     The superpredator myth presupposed that certain children were hopelessly, genetically defective.

Underline the adverbial phrase and then write the question the phrase answers.

8.     I have seen firsthand the enormous capacity of children to change.

Underline the adverbial phrase and then write question the phrase answers.

Read Brave New World, Chapter 6; pages 87 – 89;

Discussion of the following:

The savage reservation

Constant nonstop socializing with others

Bernard Marx’s nonconformity – doesn’t like to be around other people; deeply introverted; longs for a close monogamous relationship.

Information conveyed by Lenina’s thoughts and dialogue.

Vocabulary:

Disquiet – to be anxious or worried.

Thursday, March 22nd: 

Activity Four: Identifying Subordinating Words and Logical Relationships:

Directions: Underline the subordinating word and identify the relationship it expresses in the following sentences.

Adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses provide additional information to sentences; however, adverbial phrases and clauses cannot stand alone because they are sentence fragments. They must be attached to an independent sentence.

Expressing Logical Relationships with Subordination:

Reason: because, since

Time: When, after, while, before, since, as soon as, once, until, whenever

Concession/Contrast: although, though, even though, while

Condition: if, when(ever), unless, otherwise

Result/Purpose: so…that, so that, in order that

Structure:  Main clause + subordinating word + subordinate clause

The main clause can stand alone while the subordinate clause must be connected to another clause.

 Example:

When a teenager murdered my sister and her husband, my sister was pregnant with her first child.  Logical relationship – time

2. Some advocates wish to minimize these offenders’ culpability simply because they are adolescents.  Logical relationship –

3. Since I have worked lovingly with teens all my life, I understand how hard it is to accept that a sixteen-year old or a seventeen-year old can form the requisite criminal intent to kill someone.  Logical relationship –

4. The Innuit people had no juvenile crime at all until television was introduced in 1980. Logical relationship –

5. Some people view juvenile offenders as a terrible danger to society while others believe that adolescents have diminished responsibility.  Logical relationship –

6. Advocated for reform need to compromise so that the rights of victims are respected as well. Logical relationship -

Read Chapter 7 of Brave New World, pages 107 - 122, and do your reading log.

Your reading log should include the following: 

Please include a brief summary of the major events from Chapter 7 of Brave New World

Please include the following:

Any new information that is revealed about the character; for example, an event that reinforces what is already known about the character - such as, character traits or opinions, etc. For example, it is probably  no surprise that Lenina does not like the savage reservation. She likes things to be fun and clean and pretty. But here on the savage reservation, she is confronted with life untainted by drugs, or scientific intrusions into the normal process of procreation, ageing, and dying. Give examples from the book that reinforces her reaction to life real and raw and natural.

Please include events or scenes in the book that develop the themes of personal freedom, or themes of "what does it meant to be human" or what does it mean to be a part of the natural rhythms of life.

Please  include events that reveal the characters - again, an example of that would be Lenina's expected reaction to the people on the reservation.

Please include examples of figurative language. Please write the quotation. Please identify what the figurative language is - is the quotation an example of a metaphor, a simile, personification, allusion, or imagery. Hint: There is a great deal of imagery in this novel.
Example of how to do figurative language:
Page 107: "The mesa was like ship becalmed in the lion colored dust." Simile and imagery. By comparing the mesa (a flat topped mountain) to a resting ship, the simile and imagery give the mesa a sense of power at rest and a sense of potential movement.


Finally, please include words you do not know. Write the word and its definition.