Week 2 10 B

This week and next is reserved for the Interim Assessment.   I will finish the lecture/discussion on Privacy and then students will begin assessment. Please bring Brave New World to class in case exams are not yet delivered!

Daily Diagramming warm-up- Do 5-9  this week.  

Homework: 

1.  Read Brave New World Mini Guide 
2.  Complete Brave New World Vocabulary Handouts and Keep to Reading Schedule
3. There will be comprehension quizzes.

Vocabulary activities will be a xeroxed handout.  Gist questions should be downloaded from the Brave New World Box on the main page of the blog.

You will be reading a book about the future--one author's view of what people and the world may be like in the future. Part of the author's vision is that people will become numb to the ugly realities of life through the use of a drug called "soma" and through other "recreational" drugs.  The novel also poses the questions:

Are all humans guaranteed  certain "inalienable rights'? Who governs the government?  

The class will examine the idea of the " consent of the governed  which refers to the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and legal when derived from the people or society over which that political power is exercised". 

 In relation to this idea from the book, Orwell's Animal Farm,  and  1984 students will have a class project in which they will create and implement a social media campaign on topics that will be announced at a later date.  

Date Assigned	Chapters	Vocabulary Completion Date	Chapter and GIST Question Completion
1/20	1-3	1/22	1/22
1/23	4-6	1/26	1/26
1/27	7-9	1/29	1/29
1/30	10-13	2/2	2/2
2/3	14-15	2/5	2/5
2/6	16-18	2/8	2/6