Week 2 English 10B 2016

English 10B

Date	Class work	Homework
1/18	·      Turn in Roman Numeral Outline ·      Turn in Brave New World Questions and Dialectical Journal for Brave New World ·      Code for Credit updates Driving Question: Is Genome Editing Fact or Science Fiction?   Is Huxley’s Brave New World a possible reality?	Roman Numeral Outline due at beginning of class No outline, no essay for credit!
1/19	Timed Essay Prompt: Agree or disagree that genome editing signals that the dystopian potential of designer human’s described by Huxley has arrived.  Please be sure to cite “Brave New World”, both of the assigned articles, and the video. Make sure that you provide a properly Formatted MLA Works Cited list and use parenthetical citations.  Be careful not to simply aggregate quotes (a form of plagiarism).  Think about the ideas and use your own words!	Prepare for Socratic Seminar on Brave New World Have your relevant passages bookmarked in your texts or dialectical journals! Come with 5 ideas/pointswith relevant backup from texts! This will be collected for grade. Be prepared to discuss based on textual evidence: 1. Who “governs” the governed? 2. Are humans born with certain “unalienable rights”? 3. I s one right to disobey civil law when one’s conscience dictates? What is the impact of sexual mores on individual choice? 4. What is the impact of messaging, propaganda, “hypnopedia, and brainwashing on society/individuals?
1/20	Socratic Seminar Discussion based on textual evidence: 1. Who “governs” the governed? 2. Are humans born with certain “unalienable rights”? 3. I s one right to disobey civil law when one’s conscience dictates? What is the impact of sexual mores on individual choice? 4. What is the impact of messaging, propaganda, “hypnopedia, and brainwashing on society/individuals? Grade depends on preparation ( 5 points), articulate participation,  and legible Seminar Notes Bring Stapler to staple your preparation and Notes together	Revision of Timed Paper due to turnitin.com Due at beginning of class on 1/22 ( no late work accepted )!
1/21 Vocabulary Dystopian Repugnant Biocapitalism Prescient Aggregate	Socratic Seminar #1 on Brave New World Prompt: Agree or disagree that genome editing signals that the dystopian potential of designer human’s described by Huxley has arrived.  Please be sure to cite “Brave New World”, both of the assigned articles, and the video. Make sure that you provide a properly Formatted MLA Works Cited list and use parenthetical citations.  Be careful not to simply aggregate quotes (a form of plagiarism).  Think about the ideas and use your own words!	Revision of Timed Paper due to turnitin.com Due at beginning of class  tommorow (no late work accepted) !
1/22	Begin Antigone by Sophocles:  Passion vs. Rationality I How is character revealed? (STEAL) What are the patterns of Imagery in the play? What vision of life, morality, and the gods' relationship with men emerges from this play? What does this play have to say about women and their position in Greek society? Compare and contrast the chorus on the wonders of man (76-77) with statement from Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: "Not to be born is best / when all is reckoned in" (358). Do you think that these two ideas are contradictory? Why or why not? Agree or disagree: Antigone represents the tragic collision of right against right, with both sides equally justified.  In trying to bury her brother, is she "doing the right thing for the wrong reason" (53) as T. S. Eliot claimed? Textbook Room:  return Brave New World and take out 1984 and Animal Farm Greek and Latin Roots	Begin reading Antigone, Prologue, Scene 1, and Scene 2 In Elements of Literature 4th and online http://classics.mit.edu/Sopho9cles/antigone.html Complete GIST questions ( Handout in Box )