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BRAVE NEW WORLD

BRAVE NEW WORLD. Chapters 1-3 Days A-C. Monday April 6 th , 2015. EQ’s Fears vs. Thoughts Chart Quickwrite Exploring Concepts Ch. 1 Vocabulary Ch. 1 Questions for Understanding Quiz Exit Ticket. Essential Questions:.

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

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  1. BRAVE NEW WORLD Chapters 1-3 Days A-C

  2. Monday April 6th, 2015 • EQ’s • Fears vs. Thoughts Chart • Quickwrite • Exploring Concepts • Ch. 1 Vocabulary • Ch. 1 Questions for Understanding • Quiz • Exit Ticket

  3. Essential Questions: 1.) What are the characteristics of an ideal society or lack there-of? 2.) Can values be imposed/are we living in a time of moral decay? 3.) Is a person’s worth determined by what he or she can contribute to society? 4.) How much (or many) of our rights should be surrendered to the government to ensure safety and stability? • 5.) How does Brave new world reflect this idea,” Technology gives us the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.”?

  4. Fears and Thoughts

  5. Quickwrite Day A: • Pick a topic with opposing views between Orwell and Huxley that we recorded in our chart. Who do you think is closer to the truth? Tie in your own experiences and thoughts.

  6. EXPLORING KEY CONCEPTS: -Staple in questions

  7. CH 1 Vocabulary • Fertilize • Incubator • Ova • Ovary • Gametes • Sterilize • Salinity • Viscosity • Liquor • Spermatozoa • Peritoneum • Morula • Embryo • Placentin • Thyroxin • Corpus luteum • Blood surrogate • freemartin

  8. Ch. 1 Questions: Reading for Understanding 1. What is the purpose of the Hatchery and Conditioning Center? 2. What does the Director mean when he says that “particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils”? 3. What is Bokanovsky’s Process? What is the purpose? 4. What is “social predestination”? 5. Why does the hatchery purposely keep some embryos from developing high intelligence?

  9. EQ DAILY RESPONSE: EXIT TICKET Choose one of the five essential questions we wrote on page one of our BRAVE NEW WORLD notebooks. Write a response at the bottom of page 4.

  10. DAY B QUICKWRITE: The director says, “The secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny” (16). Thoughts?

  11. Ch 2. Questions for Understanding: 6. What is the purpose of conditioning the Delta babies to be afraid of books and roses? 7. Why is it necessary for the masses to consume transport and other products? Does efficiency of production lead to oversupply? 8. Why is Henry Ford, who invented assembly line manufacturing along with the first Ford automobiles, treated almost as a deity in the World State? 9. Why did early attempts at sleep teaching fail? How did they improve it? 10. What is taught in “Elementary Class Consciousness”? Do we have a similar course in our educational system? Would it be a good idea?

  12. PAVLOVIAN RESPONSE

  13. DAY B EXIT TICKET

  14. DAY C QUICKWRITE: IN your opinion, is knowledge actual knowledge if it is simply the recitation of facts? How do you know you “know” and understand something?

  15. Ch.3 Questions for Understanding 11. What is “Centrifugal Bumble Puppy”? Why is it important for games to require a complicated apparatus? 12. In the World State, children are encouraged to engage in erotic play. In our society, they are discouraged. Why is the World Society different? 13. Mustapha Mond quotes Henry Ford saying, “History is bunk.” Henry Ford really did say that. What do you think he meant? 14. What are the “feelies”? Do you think you would like to go? 15. Why is it smutty to talk about mothers and fathers? 16. Is Mond’s description of family life and its problems accurate? Do you think that the World State is a good solution? 17. What is a “Pregnancy Substitute”? Why would someone take one? 18. Why does Mond sometimes call “Our Ford” “Our Freud”? 19. Why does Fanny think that it is bad that Lenina has been going out with no one but Henry Foster for four months? 20. Mustapha Mond says that stability of society is the primal and ultimate need. Do you agree? 21. Why is Bernard Marx considered to be strange?

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