Brave New World Chapter 8

Please answer the following question. Answers are due on Nov. 30th to receive full credit.

1. How would you describe John's upbringing? Why do you think he says that he is "Alone, always alone." (p. 137). How does Bernard feel about John?

2. Why does John say at the end of the chapter, "O brave new world!" (p. 139)?

Brave New World Chapter 7

Please read Chapter 7 and answer the following questions. Answers must be posted by November 17th for full credit.

1. How does Lenina feel about their appointed guide?

2. How does Lenina react to "naked Indian"(p. 110)? Does it remind you of anyone else we have studied?

3. How does Bernard react to the pueblo of Malpais?

4. Who is Linda? What is her relationship to Tomakin?

5. Why does Linda believe that "everything they do is mad"(p. 121)? Please be specific.

Jared Diamond

Please read the Jared Diamond article and answer the questions on Hard vs. Soft Sciences by Friday, November 20th for full credit.

Brave New World Chapter 6

Please answer the following questions. Answers must be posted to the blog on Friday, November 13th for full credit.

Part I
1. Why does Lenina think Bernard Marx "odd" - please use specific references from this chapter in your answer.

2. Please provide more lines from Lenina that she learned from hypnopedia (there are some great ones in this chapter!). Do any of them remind you of sayings that we may use - please don't use commercial jingles. i.e. "1-800-54-Giant!"

3. What is Fanny's explanation for Bernard's behavior?

Part II
4. What did the Director tell Bernard about his own trip to the Reservation? Why did it initially make Bernard feel uncomfortable?

5. What does the Director threaten Bernard with if he doesn't change his behavior? Why does it elate Bernard?

Part III
6. How does the Warden describe the Reservation?

Nacirema

After the Nacirema exercise, please answer the following:
1. What happened yesterday? Why couldn't we recognize our own culture?
2. What does your answer say about the the strengths and weaknesses of the Social Sciences like Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology?

Think of what the Dragon told Grendel: "You are, so to speak, the brute existent by which they learn to define themselves (p. 73)."

Brave New World Chapter 5

Please answer the following questions and post them to your blog. All posts must be completed by November 10 for full credit.

1. What would Michael Pollan (Remember? The Omnivore's Dilemma) say about the first paragraph in Chapter 5?
2. Do you see any similarities with how the World State views death as compared to the Hindus? How does Lenina's remembrance of hypopedia compare with what is discussed in Plato's Republic?
3. What do you think of Lenina's and Henry night out on the town?
4. Why do you think Huxley uses the word "pneumatic" to refer to some female characters?
5. What is Solidarity Service and what are Bernard's feelings towards it?

Abel Questions Chapter 15

Please answers the Ch. 15 Questions from Reuben Abel's Man is the Measure (1976). Answers must be posted to your blog by Monday, November 9th to receive full credit.

Grendel Ch. 7

Please be prepared to take a short Grendel Ch. 7 Quiz on Thursday, Nov. 5.

Brave New World Chapter 4

Please answer the following questions by Tuesday, November 2nd.

Part 1
1. What puzzles Lenina about Bernard Marx's behavior?
2. Please provide examples of Lenina using what she learned from hypnopaedia.
3. Where are Lenina and Henry going?
Part 2:
1. What makes Bernard Marx distressed? Why?
2. Where does Helmholtz Watson work? What is his job?
3. What does Bernard have in common with Helmholtz Watson?
4. What is troubling Helmholtz?

ToK Prescribed Title # 7

Please write for a class period on Prescribed Title #7. I will give you a grade based on the following:

Effort : 1-10
Effective use of Ways of Knowing: 1-10
Personal examples Used: 1-10
Submitted on Blog: 1-10

If you wish to re-write the essay from what you did in class and submit to me as a paper copy, I can award up to 10 extra credit points. All Extra Credit essays must be submitted by Friday, November 6th.