April 16, 2018 - April 20, 2018 Weekly Agenda
Monday, April 16th:Break into groups to form Socratic groups.
Students will be given topics regarding Brave New World to create questions for the Socratic Circle.
Groups:
Daylan, Kaelyn, Stephanie, Cheyenne
Wendy, Precious, Maybelin, Leonela, Kenneth
Monai, Shobana, Guadalupe, George, Kayla
Henry, Melany, Noelia, Katherine, Alejandra
Gaby, Katherine, Jonathan, Germain, Johana
Ashley, Benedict, Doug, Nick, Modi
Each member of each group is to create two original
discussion questions based on Brave New
World and submit them to
schoology by 9:13 a.m. today. You are
then required to find the answers.
Examples of good discussion questions:
1.
Why did Huxley choose Henry Ford as the god of
his new world? In what way is
Huxley’s Ford like or unlike the traditional notion of God? In your opinion,
has belief in the power of science and technology replaced faith in God, as
Huxley seems to suggest in Brave New
World?
2.
What are the similarities between the religious
ceremonies in the New World State and those on the reservation? How do both
groups achieve religious ecstasy? What are both groups trying to achieve? How
does each group achieve their desired goal?
3.
Identify what aspects of his own society (mid
twentieth century Western culture) Huxley is satirizing in the novel Brave New
World.
Each member of the group is expected to have five discussion questions: minimum two original and three from the discussion questions you will be given tomorrow.
Vocabulary Unit 4; #11 - 20; will be due on Friday, April 20th.
Tuesday, April 17th:
Students will break into groups to create questions for the Socratic Circle.
Daylan, Cheyenne, Kaelyn, Stephanie,
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Kenneth, Leonela, Maybelin, Precious,Wendy
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George, Guadalupe, Kayla, Monai, Shobana,
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Alejandra, Henry, Katherine, Melanie, Noelia,
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Gaby, Germain Johana, Jonathan, Katherine
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Ashley, Benedict, Doug, Modi, Nick
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Yesterday, you created two discussion questions based on Brave New World and submitted them to
schoology for approval. Today you
have received a three page list of discussion questions based on Brave New World. Each person in the
group will choose three different questions from the three page list of
discussion questions and submit them to schoology by 9:13 for approval. Then
you must find the answers to the questions.
Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule
to expose and criticize people’s stupidity, vices, particularly in the area of
contemporary political and social topics.
How is Brave New World a
satire? Give three examples of Huxley’s use of satire to expose society’s ills.
Brave new world is a quotation from The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Miranda is a character from The Tempest. She is the daughter of a great magician and has lived
her entire life, separated from the rest of the world, on an island with her
father. One day a ship arrives carrying men and her response is, “Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here? How beauteous mankind is! O brave new
world, that has such people in’t?” Why did Aldous Huxley choose this quotation
as the title for his book? John
the “savage” says this line at various times in the book and not always so
admiringly as Miranda does. By the
end of the novel, what did John mean when he referred to the New World State as
“O, brave new world!”
Wednesday, April 18th:
Students will turn in their questions for the Socratic Circle.
Many students on field trip
Remaining students break into groups to continue working on
your discussion questions and answers.
Then share your discussion questions and answers with your
group.
Thursday, April 19th:
Socratic Circle
Socratic Circle on Brave
New World
Groups:
George, Guadalupe, Kayla, Monai, Shobana
Kenneth, Leonela, Maybeline, Precious, Wendy
Groups:
George, Guadalupe, Kayla, Monai, Shobana
Ashley, Benedict, Doug, Modi, Nick
Notes should include the questions and the answers provided by the class discussion
George, Guadalupe, Kayla, Monai, Shobana
Ashley, Benedict, Doug, Modi, Nick
Notes should include the questions and the answers provided by the class discussion
Friday, April 20th:
Socratic Circle on Brave New World
Gaby, Germain, Johana, Jonathan, Katherine
Ashley, Benedict, Doug, Modi, Nick
Assignment:
4/20 Socratic Circle Notes on Brave New World
Groups:
Gaby, Germain, Johana, Jonathan, Katherine
Ashley, Benedict, Doug, Modi, Nick
Notes should include the questions and the answers provided by the class discussion
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