Modern Lit, Per. 4 (Period 4) Assignments

Agenda 5/1

Essay Format

Para 1--Summarize the book in 2-3 sentences. (Brave New World is a dystopian novel about....) Then deliver your thesis: Basically that in many ways the brave new world is already here.
Para 2-4: Each paragraph should have two clear examples plus comment about how our world is like the brave new world.

Possible topics: advertising, sex, drugs, class/caste system, education, conditioning (brainwashing), government power, break up of families.

Agenda 4/27

1. Turn in HW for Ch 16
2. Finish the book (ch 17 and 18) and answer Focus questions.'
3. Vocab 150 words

Ch 17
1. MM makes several points about God. List 3 and comment.
2. In the end, what is it that John wants that the BNW won't allow?

Ch 18
1. How does John's celebrity lead to his doom?
2. The idea of penitentes returns. Explain.
3. What exactly happens between John and Lenina?
4. So how does the story end? In your opinion, is it a comedy or a tragedy? Explain.

Agenda 4/20/12

1. Turn in homework for Ch 12.
2. Read Ch 13,14, and 15.
3. Summarize the comedy of Ch 13 in one paragraph.
4 Answer Focus questions for Ch 14 and 15

Ch 14
1. Cite three comic elements to Linda's death and explain what makes them funny.

Ch 15
1. How and why does John cause a riot with the deltas?
2. Ho do Bernard and Helmholtz help?
3. How is the riot quelled? Explain the irony.

Agenda 4/19

1. Turn in homework for Ch 11
2. Read ch 12 and answer focus questions.

Ch 12
1. John rebels. Why?
2. What are the consequences for Bernard?
3. P 177 -- Summarize MM's explanation about the true goal of life compared to life in the BNW.
4. P 181 -- What is the Helmholtz poem about?
5. P 185-86 -- Why laugh at "Romeo and Juliet?"

Agenda 4/17

1. Read Ch 11 and answer Focus questions.
2. Turn question for ch 9 and 10.

Ch11
1. What do they do with Linda?
2. Bernard becomes conventional. Explain.
3. P 159 Bernard angers Mustapha Mond. How?
4. The penitentes return. What is the alpha plus reaction?
5. Lenina and John go the feelies. summarize the plot and explain John's reaction.

Agenda 4/11/12

1. Turn in work for Ch 5 nd 6.
2. Copy questions for Ch 8.
3. Read Ch 7 with me.

Ch 8
1. What is mescal for Linda?
2. Why does Linda get in trouble with the village women?
3. How does John learn Shakespeare? What effect does it have on him?
4. Why is John ostracized?
5. John understands pain differently that Bernard. Explain.

Agenda 4/9/12

1. Turn in homework questions for Ch 2-4.
2. Read Ch 5 &6 for Wednesday and answer focus question for each.

Ch 5
1. How many times do Henry and Lenina use soma? What is their mood or attitude together? Explain.
2. How is the 'solidarity service' used to create 'community, identity, and stability?' Think about the use of soma, orgy-porgy, Ford, and the caste attending.

Ch 6
1. (Part 1) Explain the big problem between Bernard and Lenina.
2. (Part 2) Summarize the DHC's back story.
3. (Part 3) Who is boring Lenina and how? How does she respond.
4. What is the bad news for Bernard? How does he respond?

Agenda 3/38

1. Read Ch 2-4
2. Vocab 120 words

Ch2
1. How and why do they condition the delta babies to hate books and flowers?
2. What is hypnopedia and how was it discovered?
3. Why is it so valuable for moral education?

Ch 3
1. How does sexual promiscuity contribute to stability?
2. How did the wars change civiization?
3. Explain how Bernard is a dissident?

Ch 4
1. Lenina is totally conventional. Give example of her hypnopedic sayings.
2. List 3 things we learn about Bernard, and 3 things we learn about Helmholtz.

Agenda 3/22

1. Turn in Ch 11 and 12
2. The essay: Why did Hitler want this book burned and this man dead? Due: Monday, 3/26
3. vocab reminder: 120 next week.

Intro: AQ is an anti-war novel about the horrors of war, the hopelessnes, the psychological toll.

Para. 2-4
1. high mortality rate (death)
2. the wounded
3. PTSD--500% higher suicide rate
4. Hopelessness for the young/ the dehumanization of war
5. poverty, starvation, and disease in the population
6. What makes a war? Who makes a war? Who benefits? Big corporations, generals, kings.

Quote form: The first scene in the book is Paul's company returning from the front with "only eighty strong" out of 150.

Agenda 3/20/12

1. Turn in Ch 10 part 2.
2. Finish the book--Focus Questions ch 11 and 12
3. What elements of the novel are the most important in building anit-war sentiment?

Focus Ch11 and 12

1. P 271-275. Summarize what is happeing to the men in a short para.
2. What happens to:
a. Detering?
b. Berger?
c. Mueller?
d. Bertinck?
e. Leer?
f. Kat?
g. Paul?

Agenda 3/16

1. Turn in Ch 10 question (first half).
2. Focus questions for 2nd half of Ch 10 due Monday
3. Vocab 100 words

Ch 10 P 251-269

1. In the Catholic hospital, how do the wounded react to the nurses' prayers?
2. Franz Hamacher has a shooting license. Explain.
3. What is the dying room and why do they have it?
4. What has happened to Albert?
5. What great favor do the guys do for Lewandowski?
6. Paul get convalescent leave and goes home. How do you think his mother's condition affects him?

Agenda 3/14

Focus questions for Ch 10

1. They feast. List all of the food they are preparing.
2. What not so small difficulties almost prevent them from finishing?
3. Paul and Albert get wounded. Describe their wounds and how they get them.
4. How do they manage to get on the hospital train together?
5. How do they manage to stay together? P 250-51.

Agenda 3/8

1. Turn in text and comment for Ch 7
2. Focus questions for Ch 8
3. Read Ch 9 for Monday
4. EPT sample questions

Ch 8
1. P 189 How des Paul describe the Russian POWs?
2. What are the conditions in the camp for the POWs?
3. What is dysentery? How could it kill you?
4. P 193-94 What essentially makes a war?
5. What is happening with Paul's mother?

Agenda 3/10

1. Ch9 Paul returns to the regiment
2. Read half of Ch 10, p 231-250.

Ch 9 QUIZ
1. P201-207 Another discussion about the causes of war. Select three or your favoite quotes and comment on each.
2. Explain how Paul gets lost and tries to get back to his friends.
3. A French soldier falls into the shell-hole with Paul. Summarize their brief relationship. Then comment.
4. How does the chapter end? What is Remarque saying to us?

Agenda 3/10
Chapter 9 Focus Questions

1. Another discussion about the causes of war. copy three of your favorite quotes and comment about each.
2.Explain how Paul gets lost and then tries to find his friends.
3. A French soldier falls into Pauls shell hole. Summarize their brief, 5-part relationship. Then comment.
4. How does the chapter end? what is Remarque saying to us about war?

Agenda 3/2/12

1. Ch 6 focus questions
2. Read ch7 for Tues.
3. vocab 80 words

ch 6
1. Explain the significance of each:
a. coffins
b. rats
c. chance
d. bayonets
e. spades
2. P 113--During the attack, what is percieved as the 'real enemy?'
3. P128-131--Why do the recruites die in such terrible numbers?

Agenda: 2/29

Focus questions for Ch 5
1.Summarize the psychic damage Paul describes on pages 86-88.
2. What happens to Tjaden and page 90?
3. Summarize the theft of the goose on pages 91-93.
4. Explain Paul's love for Kat, described on pages 93-95.
5. What is the purpose of the nature description on page 95?

Read ch 6, The Attack, for Friday.

Agenda: 2/27

1. Focus on Ch 4: On a separate sheet of paper, summarize three horrors caused by the bombardment.
2. Read Ch 5: Focus on: a) peacetime fantasies, b) Himmelstoss at the front, c) psychic damage d) the goose.