April 9, 2018 - April 13, 2018 Agenda for ERWC

Monday, April 9th:

Chapter 8 Reading Log was due at 11:59 on Wednesday, April 4th
Chapter 9 Reading Log was due at 11:59 on Thursday, April 5th
Chapter 10 Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Friday, April 6th. 
Chapter 11 Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Saturday, April 7th
Chapter 12 Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Sunday, April 8th. 
Chapter 13 Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Monday, April 9th.
Chapter 14 Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Tuesday, April 10th
Chapter 15 Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Wednesday, April 11th. 
Chapter 16th Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Thursday, April 12th. 
Chapter 17th Reading Log will be due at 11:59 on Friday, April 13th. 
Chapter 18th Reading will be due at 11:59 on Saturday, April 14th. 

Please write a brief summary of the chapter, an analysis of the characters, an explanation of the science, the themes, and at least three examples of figurative language.
How to do the figurative language:
Write the quotation
Who is saying it?
To whom is s/he saying it? And why? 
Identify the figurative language
Explain what the quotation is saying and what is revealed by the figurative language.

All work for this grading period must be turned in by Friday, 13th to be counted for this grading period.


Tuesday, April 10th:
Read and discussed Brave New World, chapter six:
Conflict between the artificial and the real
Bernard hovers his aeroplane over dangerously choppy waters in order to see, feel, experience something real rather than something induced by soma or artificially created by electric lights and synthesizers.
Feminist theory – Lenina is so completely indoctrinated by her hynopaedic training that she cannot see herself as anything beyond the physical – “…a piece of meat,” thinks Bernard Marx.

New rule: NO LATE WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH. 

Wednesday, April 11th: 

Students worked on Brave New World
ALL OUTSTANDING WORK IS DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH!

 Thursday, April 12th: 

Chapter 18
Figurative Language:
“I ate civilization”
Identify the type of figurative language:
Metaphor – it is not literal! He consumed or partook of civilization.
Who said it?
John
To whom was it said:
Helmholtz, who represents the Brave New World
What is revealed by this comment?
John the Savage, who was raised on a Native-American reservation, is now living in the Brave New World where nothing is real or authentic, and everything is false and synthetic. John has been drawn into the morass of this synthetic world by having sex with Lenina, a woman with whom he was in love. However, the sex was empty and meant nothing to Lenina. Now John is sickened and disgusted by his first encounter with sex with a woman he thought he loved.  When Helmholtz asks if he is feeling ill, John replies, “I ate civilization.”

Vocabulary:
Strumpet: whore
The word strumpet is an archaic word, which is synonymous with the word whore. The word strumpet is used throughout Shakespeare’s plays, particularly in his masterpiece Othello, a tragedy of a great general being destroyed by the manipulations of an envious man who leads him to believe that his virtuous wife has been unfaithful to him.

Friday, April 13th:
Brave New World reading logs Chapters 4 - 17 are due today! Chapter 18 may be turned in tomorrow, Saturday, April 14th at 11:59. 
 


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