Essay Thoughts?

Today we are going to read chapter 15 and then start:

Assignment: Draw a picture of an important scene, or a picture of an image that represents a greater idea in the book. Be sure to include a short-written component explaining why you chose to create your visual representation.

Possible things to write about:

-Meaning of the title (as a symbol)
- How people and why people are controlled
- World Stat's motto: Community, Identity, Stability (and how it works in the novel)
- The purposes of the numerous sayings such as "Ending is Better than Mending" (think consumerism)
- Setting as symbol
- The book is a cautionary tale against?
- Soma
- Shakespeare (how he is used/reference and what those references mean)?
- Caste system
- Meaning of John and Lenina's relationship
- FORD

Quotes about FORD
"in this year of stability, A.F. 632" (Ch. 1)
"the time of Our Ford"(Ch. 3)
"You all remember that beautiful saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk." (Ch. 3)
"Ford's in his flivver. All's well with the world." (Ch.3)
"Don't keep his Fordship waiting." (Ch. 3)
"The introduction of Our Ford's first T-model ... [was] chosen as the opening date of the new era." (Ch. 3)
ponder the quotes, and then ask them what on earth all this Ford business is about. You can use the questions below to help guide your discussion if you like.
What do all of these quotes have in common?
Who is Ford? When did he live? What did he do?
What's a flivver, and what do you think that expression means?
What seems to be Ford's significance in this society?
What do you make of phrases like "Our Ford" and "his Fordship"?

Here are a couple of questions you can ask if you need to encourage your students to probe a little further.
If Ford has more or less replaced God in this society, as suggested by the phrases "Our Ford" and "Ford be praised," what qualities, virtues, or morals must this society value most?
Did anyone find out if Ford really claimed that "History is bunk"? What's the story behind that quote? Why do you think Huxley referenced it?
Why couldn't Huxley have chosen someone like Edison, who was credited with numerous technological advances, to be the deity figure of Brave New World?

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FINAL

Yes, it's that time again: FINALS!

Good Luck!

Thursday and Friday

Fill out study guides.

We will play a review game on Friday!

ODYSSEY REVIEW GUIDE:
THEMES:
Be able to show three examples from the text to back up each of the following:
Loyalty
Hospitality
Pride/Arrogance
Coming of Age
Forgetting (or the evils of drugs and women)
MOTIFS:
Be able to explain the following and why they are used:
Storytelling
Back story of Troy
Agammenon/Clytaimnestra

Other Epic elements:
Starts “in the middle of things”; Odysseus’ tragic flaw; sports

SYMBOLS:
Be able to explain the following:
Birds (especially eagles); Hades; Odyssey’s Wound

GODS (know the following and what they do in the text)::
Athena; Poseidon; Hermes; Zeus; Helios
SEDUCTRESSES: (know the following and their purpose)
Helen; Calypso; Circe; Sirens


CHARACTERS:
Be able to give a description of the following and their roles in the story (perhaps what the symbolize or represent – and connect to a theme)
Agammenon
Amphinomos
Achilles
Telemachos
Helen
Laertes
Menelaus
Penelope
Aias (Ajax)
Antinoos
Orestes
Eurymachos
Nestor
Lotus Eaters
Mentor
Ciconians
Nausicaa
Polyphemos
Alcinoos
Scylla
Arete
Charybdis
Emaios
Aiolos
Theoclymenos
Elpenor
Melanthios
Teiresias
Arnaios
Eurylochos
Eurycleia
Cassandra
Tityo
Tantalus
Sisyphus

ODYSSEY: FINAL

1) How does the Odyssey start “in the middle of things”?

2) What is Odysseus’ tragic flaw and how is it shown?

3) Explain the motif of Agammenon and Clytaimnestra.  What theme does it reinforce?

4) Who are seductresses in the Odyssey and what purpose do they serve?

5) Summarizes Books 1-4.  What story do they tell?

6) Summarize Books 5-8.  What story do they tell?

7) Summarize Books 20-24.  What story do they tell?

8) Discuss the theme of Loyalty and give three detailed examples from the book.

9) Discuss the theme of Hospitality and give three detailed examples from the book.

10) Discuss the back-story of Troy, where it appears and what it represents.

11) Discuss the symbol of Hades.  What does it represent?  Who is there?  What do they say or do there?

12) Discuss the symbol of birds.  What does it represent?  Give three examples from the book?

The following questions are worth 2 point each.  

Give a description of the following characters and their roles in the story.

13) Achilles

14) Antinoos

15) Emurymachos

16) Nausicaa

17) Scylla

18) Charybdis

19) Aiolos

20) Laertes

21) Orestes

22) Nestor

Monday and Beyond

5/11 - Books 21-22
5/12 - Book 23
5/13 - Book 24
5/14 - Review for Final
5/15 - Review for Final
5/19 (TUESDAY) - FINAL

Work for this week

So I will be out of class on Wednesday, part of Thursday, and Friday.

Here is what we are doing this week:

Today (Tuesday) - you have about twenty minutes to work on writing your blog entry for Books 9-12. Your entries should include a summary, a list of characters, and a connection to a major theme.

Wednesday

You need to read Books 15 and 16 in class and write a blog entry for Books 13-16.

Thursday

I will be in class for part of the period.  You will play vocabulary charades and read Books 17-18.

Friday

Vocabulary Quiz.  Books 19-20.

If you are behind on reading they should catch up over the weekend.

On Monday you will have time to write your blog entry for Books 17-20.  

For a map of Hades go HERE