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]]> Sat, 05 Jun 2021 04:02:41 PDT //ahs.slzusd.org/homeworkItem7856190 //ahs.slzusd.org/apps/classes/996007/assignments/ 2) Resubmit one multiple text chart previously completed. Attach to THIS assignment.
3) Submit a reflective essay. Review either your Letter to Yourself or the Self-Portrait assignment. Then write an essay in which you reflect on how well you met the personal learning goals you identified at the beginning of the school year.


All students (including those with active IEPs or 504 plans) must submit all three of the above by 11:15 AM.
Late submissions may not be graded in time for report cards.
Students with IEPs or 504s should message me via Zoom chat or Google Comments for accommodations.
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All students (including those with active IEPs or 504 plans) must submit their essay by 11:15.
Late submissions may not be graded in time for report cards.
Students with IEPs or 504s should message me via Zoom chat for accommodations.

**To receive a passing grade you must demonstrate that you have read Brave New World by using specific examples throughout your essay to support your thesis.

**An upper-level grade requires that you:

avoid contractions 
avoid the use of "I" 
avoid slang
properly format your essay -- including font size, double-spacing, and titles.
]]> Sat, 29 May 2021 18:12:39 PDT //ahs.slzusd.org/homeworkItem7736556 //ahs.slzusd.org/apps/classes/996007/assignments/ Answer the following:
Chapter 15
1.     What causes the
disturbance in the hospital? How do Bernard and Helmholtz get involved?

Chapter 16
2.     The core of this chapter is the debate between John, the Savage, and Mustapha Mond, the World
Controller. John is delighted that Mond has read Shakespeare. He asks why old
things are banned even when they are beautiful. Mond says, “Beauty’s
attractive, and we don’t want people to be attracted by old things. We want
them to like the new ones.” John presses the point. He says the feelies are not
as good as Othello. Mond agrees, but says, You can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable
now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re
safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully
ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers;
they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so
conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave.
And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma. (220)
Mond says that sacrificing real feelings and emotional attachments is the price the
society has to pay for stability. Do you agree with him that this price is
worth paying?
3.     John asks Mond why they have to have whole groups of identical Deltas. Why not make everyone an Alpha
Plus like Bernard and Helmholtz? Are you satisfied with Mond’s answer?
4.     What does it mean to be sent to an island? Why was Mustapha Mond almost sent to one?

Chapter 17
5.     Mustapha Mond says, “God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal
happiness.” John makes a number of arguments about why religion is necessary,
but Mond defeats each one. Or does he? What do you think?

Chapter 18
6.  Why won’t Mustapha Mond allow John to go with Bernard and Helmholtz to the island? What does John
decide to do instead?
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Chapter 11
1.    Lenina takes John, who is now known as “the Savage,” to a feelie called
“Three Weeks in a Helicopter.” “I don’t think you ought to see things like that,” he said, making haste
to transfer from Lenina herself to the surrounding circumstances the blame for
any past or possible future lapse from perfection. (169)

Lenina doesn’t understand. John calls the film horrible, but she thinks it was lovely.
Lenina expects John to come into her apartment, but John says goodnight and
leaves. What is going on here? Why are they so confusing to each other? Who is
right?

Chapter 12
2.    Bernard organizes a party with many important people who all come to see
the Savage, but John refuses to come out of his room, cursing at Bernard in
Zuñi. Bernard is humiliated, and his guests leave early, including the
Arch-Community-Songster, who leaves with Lenina. Why does John refuse to come
out? Is he justified?
3.     Why does Helmholtz call Shakespeare a “marvelous propaganda technician”? What does he think is the
source of Shakespeare’s power? Do you agree?

Chapter 13
4.     John proposes marriage to Lenina and declares his love. How does Lenina respond? What is John’s reaction?
Why is it hard for them to understand each other?

Chapter 14
5.     Linda is dying in the hospital for the dying. Why is there a group of eight-year-olds touring the
hospital? Why does John have so much trouble dealing with the children and the
Head Nurse?
]]> Wed, 12 May 2021 11:56:33 PDT //ahs.slzusd.org/homeworkItem7610152 //ahs.slzusd.org/apps/classes/996007/assignments/ Respond: Answer the questions below:
Chapter 7
1.     Why is Lenina so startled by the old man and the
women nursing babies?
2.     Why doesn’t Lenina want to imagine being a mother?
3.     Why does Lenina like the drums even though she
doesn’t like anything else?
4.     What can you tell about Indian society from the ritual
that Bernard and Lenina observe? What does John say is the purpose of the
ritual?
5.     Who is John? Why is he attracted to Lenina?
6.     Who is Linda? Why is Lenina disgusted by her?
7.     Why do the Indian women hate Linda? Are they
justified?

Chapter 8
8.     What kind of childhood did John have?
9.     What two books has John read?
10.  Why does John try to kill Popé? What is Popé’s
reaction?
11.  Who is Mitsima? What does he teach John?
12.  Why can’t John go into the Antelope Kiva?
13.  Why is John happy that Bernard is not married to Lenina?

Chapter 9
14.  What is a “soma holiday”? Why does Lenina go on one?
15.  When Bernard leaves, he asks the pilot if Lenina will
be safe. The pilot responds “Safe as helicopters.” What does he mean by that?
16.  Why does Bernard go back to the World State? Why does
he call Mustapha Mond?
17.  John visits the house where Bernard and Lenina are
staying. What does he do? 

Chapter 10
18.     The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning has
decided to get rid of Bernard Marx by sending him to Iceland. He says, “The greater
a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one
should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter
dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offense is so heinous as
unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only one individual—and after all, what
is an individual?” With a sweeping gesture,
he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test tubes, the incubators. “We can
make a new one with the greatest of ease—as many as we like. Unorthodoxy
threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society
itself.” (148) The Director accuses Bernard of being an “enemy of Society” because of “…his heretical views on sport and soma,
by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sexlife, [and] by his refusal to obey
the teachings of Our Ford…” (149). Are these accusations true? What does the
Director mean by “unorthodoxy of behavior”? Is Bernard an enemy of the World
State? Do you agree with the Director that the society is more important than
the individual?
19.     It turns out that the Director has also made a visit
to the Reservation and that his companion was Linda, whom he was “having” at
the time.
While they were at the Reservation, Linda had an accident, and he left her behind, where she bore his
son John. What is his reaction when he and Linda are reunited? Does he deserve
what happens to him? Why or why not?

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1.    What is soma?  
2.    What do Alphas in the World State use for personal transportation?  
3.    Why does Lenina hate the color khaki? Why is she glad she is not a
Gamma?  
4.    Why is Bernard Marx insecure?

Chapter 5
5.    in what way are all the citizens of the World State equal?  
6.    Henry and Lenina dance to a song called “There ain’t no Bottle in all
the world like that dear little Bottle of mine.” What is this song about?  
7.    What is “Orgy Porgy”? Is it a religious ritual? Is it a wild party?  

Chapter 6
8.    What does Bernard like to do with his leisure time? What does Lenina
like to do? Are they well matched?  
9.    When Lenina says, “Never put off until tomorrow the fun you can have
today,” Bernard says, “Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to
sixteen and a half.” What does he mean?  
10.  What does Bernard mean when he says, “it might be possible to be adult all the time”? Why doesn’t
Lenina understand?  
11.  When Bernard goes to his boss to get a permit to go to the reservation, what story does the Director
tell him?
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Tuesday/Thursday ---1,3,5  &   Wednesday/Friday -- 2,4,6


Distance Learning is still REQUIRED FOR ALL students.

Reading for Understanding
Read: Brave New World chapters 1-3 (Preface recommended)



Respond:
Chapter 1

1.    
What is the purpose of the Hatchery and Conditioning Center?

2.    
What is Bokanovsky’s Process? What is the purpose?

3.    
What is “social predestination”?

4.    
Why does the hatchery purposely keep some embryos from developing high
intelligence?


Chapter 2

5.    
What is the purpose of conditioning the Delta babies to be afraid of
books and roses?

6.    
Why is Henry Ford, who invented assembly line manufacturing along with
the first Ford automobiles, treated almost as a deity in the World State?

7.    
Why did early attempts at sleep teaching fail? How did they improve it?

8.    
What is taught in “Elementary Class Consciousness”? Do we have a similar
course in our educational system? Would it be a good idea?

9.    
Helmholtz Watson is smart and popular with girls. Why is he
dissatisfied?




Chapter 3

10.    
What is “Centrifugal Bumble Puppy”?
Why is it important for games to require a complicated apparatus?  

11.    
In the World State, children are encouraged to engage in erotic play. In
our society, they are discouraged. Why is the World State society different?  

12.    
Mustapha Mond quotes Henry Ford saying, “History is bunk.” Henry Ford
really did say that. What do you think he meant?  

13.    
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.  Why does Mond sometimes
call “Our Ford” “Our Freud”?  

18.  Why does Fanny think that
it is bad that Lenina has been going out with no one but Henry Foster for four
months?  

19.  Mustapha Mond says that stability of society is the primal and ultimate
need. Do you agree?
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Essay Prompt A
Your school newspaper has asked you to
write a response to Steve Jobs’ inspirational 2005 Commencement Address at
Stanford University, focusing on what he says in paragraph 23. Write an essay
for your peers in which you discuss the ways in which you agree or disagree
with Jobs’ views in this paragraph. Support your position, providing reasons
and examples from the readings in this module. You may also include personal
observations and experiences when appropriate. The newspaper has allotted you
500 words.

Essay Prompt B
In this module, we have heard a number of voices discussing
the value of life from different perspectives. Amanda Ripley’s article from Time
magazine provides insight into the problems involved in translating the value
of life from abstract terms into actual dollars and cents. The Human Life Value
Calculators establish specific criteria for assigning monetary value to a
person’s life. Feinberg believes all lives are worth the same in financial
terms. Hamlet’s soliloquy offers an emotional, figurative glimpse into the
thoughts of a young man contemplating suicide. Jobs believes we find value in
life through what we love. Gerzon questions the inequality associated with the
value of a human life. You might not fully agree or disagree with any of the
texts’ essential claims about the value of life, but these prompts invite you
to find where your ideas fit into the terrain mapped out by the texts you have
read. Is it right to assign dollar values to a person’s life? Do suffering and
illness impact how we should value life? Write an article of about 500 words
for the HuffPost readers interested in this issue, stating your position
on the main claims in this module.


***To be eligible to receive an A, an completed and correct multiple-text chart must be attached.
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