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Exam will be DAY 2 next week! The study guide is attached below
Brave New World Unit Home
Lesson 1- Lecture
Introduction: Brave New World, Huxley, and His World
Due Day 2!: Webquest
Directions: Copy and paste the following web quest into a google document, then share it with your partner and your teacher. Use your Cornell notes from the prezi lecture (prezi embedded above) to answer as much of the web quest questions as you can. Then move on to searching the internet for the remaining answers needed.
Due: Wednesday, March 4th
Due: Wednesday, March 4th
Vocabulary
The best way to learn a new word is to read it in the context of a story and use it in your everyday conversations. This book will provide you with many opportunities to learn new words in context. Below is the printable list of vocabulary words for each of the 18 chapters. It is expected that you will look the words up and form your own, short definition BEFORE reading the chapter. Six words will be selected each week for the weekly reading quizzes.
Chapter Questions
The following questions will be the basis for all journals, warm ups, discussions and quizzes during the length of our unit. Please familiarize yourself with the questions before reading the chapter and use the questions to guide your reading. You do not need to answer the questions in writing unless they are explicitly ASSIGNED in class or as homework by your teacher.
Lesson 3- Graphic Organizers
Use the Bokanovsky Groups organizer below to record evidence from the text (with correct page numbers!) about how each of the five social castes are created, maintained, and conditioned throughout the novel. Don't forget to write down which characters fall under each group.
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Use the Bokanosky Process double bubble organizer below while reading chapters 1 and 2 to record how citizens of Brave New World society are created and conditioned. Once you have read and recorded evidence, put numbers to indicate the steps in chronological order (they are not given chronologically in the book, read carefully)
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Unit Assessments
Unit Assignments include 3 main components
- Entry level: webquest, guided notes, graphic organizers, chapter questions
-Formative (Informal in our gradebook) : 4 science articles (annotations and short written responses required), reading of the text, chapter questions
-Summative (Formal in our gradebook): weekly vocabulary quizzes on vocabulary and reading
final research assignment (TBD)
To see a schedule of the reading assignments (remember quizzes and reading tasks follow only the chapters which are assigned as homework to ensure you are reading closely and asking questions in class) and the formal assignment due date look at the schedule below
- Entry level: webquest, guided notes, graphic organizers, chapter questions
-Formative (Informal in our gradebook) : 4 science articles (annotations and short written responses required), reading of the text, chapter questions
-Summative (Formal in our gradebook): weekly vocabulary quizzes on vocabulary and reading
final research assignment (TBD)
To see a schedule of the reading assignments (remember quizzes and reading tasks follow only the chapters which are assigned as homework to ensure you are reading closely and asking questions in class) and the formal assignment due date look at the schedule below
Science Articles
Week 1
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Writing tasks
The writing tasks are homework to be completed while reading the assigned chapters at home. These worksheets should be complete by the time you return to class and are meant to ensure you are ready for the comprehension quizzes. If you are unable to answer any of the questions, be sure to ask for clarification at the very beginning of class so that you are prepared for the quiz.
Essay!
- Unit Title: Huxley's Technology and Science in our Brave New World
- Unit Summary:During this unit we will read Aldous Huxley’s famous utopic sci-fi novel and explore the themes of science as reality. Although the society in Brave New World is a self-proclaimed utopia, there is an eerie familiarity with both the societies in dystopic novels read thus far in the year (Anthen and By the Waters of Babylon) and similarities to our society today. In four weeks we will read the entire novel alongside current news articles relating to scientific and technological advancements recently made which mimic Huxley’s fictional world and ask ourselves the age old question: Does art mimic life or does life mimic art? Thoughts produced during reading, collaborative activities, and discussions will synthesize and culminate in our unit’s final assessment: an informative research paper.
- Subject Area: English Language Arts
- Grade Level: 10
- California Content Standards:
- Year Long standards:
- W.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
- W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grades 9-10 here.) SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grades 9-10 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
- L.2(a-c)
- RL.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
- Semester Long standards:
- RI.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
- SL.2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source
- W.2(a-f) Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.A
- Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.B
- Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.C
- Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and concepts.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.D
- Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.E
- Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.F
- Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).
- Unit Long standards:
- L.4 (a-d) Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9-10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.A
- Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.B
- Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or parts of speech (e.g., analyze, analysis, analytical; advocate, advocacy).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.C
- Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning, its part of speech, or its etymology.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.D
- Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
- RL.6,7 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
- Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
- Science: To what extent is society controlled by technology and science? How is this control both a positive and negative advancement for the community and the individual?
- Social Studies: How is Huxley’s writing a reflection of the world in which he lived? How is it an accurate or inaccurate projection of the future of first world society?
Recognize information, ideas, and principles of the selected novel (BNW) by and selected research (instructor and student selected science articles).
Recognize and explain the tone from textual description of BNW and nonfiction science articles by successfully completing weekly reading, annotations of articles, and criticial thinking response connecting the fiction and nonfiction texts with at least 80% accuracy.
Write an informative research essay to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information presented in current scientific research and the novel Brave new worl clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content by answering one of five cross-curricular prompts given at the beginning of the unit using self generated and instructor selected research to answer the questions with at least 80% accuracy in a 4-5 page MLA format research paper.