Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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How do you use technology? Is more advanced technology always better?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Conveyors (34)
Antique (35)
Tactual (35)
Contemptuous (35)
Kneading (36)
Stiflingly (37)
Vivid (37)
Compulsory (38)
Inscrutable (39)
Monogamy (40)
Bemoaning (42)
Lurks (44)
Insurmountable (45)
Propaganda (51)
Rapture (59)
Stupor (59)

Journal for the Day

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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What is self control? How can we achieve this?

Journal for the Day

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What does it mean to be FREE? Is it about doing whatever you want or is there something else?

Journal for the Day

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Why do we have emotions? What might things be like if we didn't?

Journal for the Day

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What might things be like 100 years into the future?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Spasmodic (21)
Gratuitous (23)
Smut (23)
Inculcate (28)
Apparatus (31)
Rudimentary (31)
Exquisite (32)
Prejudice (62)
Caste (62)
Excess (67)
Consummation (85)
Satiety (85)
Infantile (98)
Conform (98)
Leering (102)
Revolting (102)

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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How would you feel if you were artificially made? Do you think conformity is a good thing?jor

Journal for the Day

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What is the difference between natural and artificial? Which do you think is better?

Brave New World Reading Assignments #1-3

Reading Assignments

Brave New World

Reading Assignment #1

Read Chapters 1 - 2 of Brave New World (p. 3-29), and answer the questions:

1. 
   
   According to the Director, “the secret of happiness and virtue [is] liking what you have to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social identity” (16). Use the quote below to explain what this means:
   “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh, no. I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.” (27-28)
2. 
   
   What lesson is the Director trying to “rub in […] with a mild electric shock” (21)? Why are the children being taught this lesson?
3. 
   
   What is hypnopaedia? What is it used for? Use the quote below to help you:

“'Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges, and desires, and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!' The Director almost shouted in his triumph. 'Suggestions from the State!'” (29)

Reading Assignment #2

Read Chapter 3 of Brave New World (p. 30-56), and answer the questions:

1. 
   
   How is human emotion viewed by this society? What are the drawbacks of feeling strong emotions? Use the quote below to help you:

“Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre- moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take thinks easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?” (41)

2. 
   
   How does this hypnopaedic saying ensure that individuals will spend their lives as consumers?

“Every man, woman and child compelled (forced) to consume so much a year. In the interests of industry. […] Ending is better than mending. The more stitches the less riches.” (49)

3. 
   
   Do you think this society values what we think of as education? Do you think education as you know it is a good value to have? Why or why not?

“You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.” (50)

4. 
   
   What is this society's attitude about drugs? Why might a society allow for recreational drug use?

“Six years later it [soma] was being produced commercially. The perfect drug […] euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant.” (53)

Reading Assignment #3

Read Chapters 4-5 of Brave New World (p. 57-86), and answer the questions:

1. 
   
   How is Lenina an example of a citizen of the society? Use the quotes below to help you:

“'That is,' Lenina gave him her most deliciously significant smile, 'if you still want to have me.'” (58)

“What a hideous color khaki is,' remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopaedic prejudices of her caste.” (62)

2. 
   
   Why is it significant that Bernard and Helmholz know that they are individuals? (67)
3. 
   
   Why do you think Bernard is left unfulfilled by the Solidarity Service? (78-86)

Journal for the Day

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What will we sacrifice for social stability? (What are we willing to give up to live comfortably?)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.


1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Stability (3)
Predestine (13)
Condition (13)
Viviparous (24)
Rational (26)
State (29)
Suggestion (29)
Triumph (29)
Consumption (30)
Abnormal (32)
Promiscuous (43)
Obscene (38)
Prohibitions (41)
Remorse (41)
Compelled (49)
Euphoric (53)

Journal for the Day

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Imagine a society that considers having fun one of its highest values. What might this society look like?

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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"Young black men pretending to be men by killing each other." What does it mean to be a man?

Final Essay for Crips & Bloods

Final Essay on

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Due Friday, May 14, 2010

Graphic Organizer: 10 points

1^st Draft with revision: 10 points

Final Draft: 40 points

Total: 60 points

For this assignment, you will write a 5 paragraph essay. (If you write an 8 paragraph essay, you will receive +6 extra credit on this assignment.)

Choose one of the topics below:

1. 
   
   How are the Crips and Bloods “made in America”? Use details from the film to describe how gangs were shaped by historical events. Then discuss how you are “made” by your environment.
2. 
   
   Think about the quote: “Part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent they become the instruments of their own oppression.” (Kumasi) In what ways do you experience this in your community or in your personal relationships with others?
3. 
   
   Compare and contrast gang & club and riot & guerrilla. How does language influence the way we think about things? What do you notice about the words you choose to use?

Due on May 14: All of your materials, including the graphic organizer, your first draft, and your typed final draft, are due.

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How can you become more aware of the impact you have on others? (How do you treat other people?)

Journal for the Day

Section 10-3

How do you feel when the good you do is ignored or belittled?

Sections 10-1, 2, and 4

What is the difference between fear and respect?