11-01-11
Presentations of Utopian/distopian society start today. some students signed up yesterday to go first today.
HW:
Read pages 84-96 in DADoES. Post vocab. Work on Creative Project
Thurs. quiz on vocab and reading.
10-31-11
Journal question: Who is Buster Friendly like in our society? And Mercer?
Buster Friendly is a dystopic Oprah (droid?). He is like Crusty the Clown ,Marshall Applewhite, George Stropppolis, Wolf Bitzer, Sharon OsbourneBill O’Reilly< Mr. Rogers, Fox News, Steven Colbert,
Mercer(ism) Empathy box. More important as religious sign. Jesus/Mercer--both stood for peace and love--both suffer .
Empathy ties the whole book together.
HW:
Finish creative presentation---due tomorrow.10-28-11
Last report on Utopian Societies; New Harmony.
Write in journal, answer the question: Name a time when you felt different from others in a group.
Went over answers to the post #4 on the book.
1. Why does Deckard seem to be a cold person? because of the work he does and the uncertainty of his life hunting the androids
2. How are androids made? A company makes them
3. Why are they hunting androids? Outlawed on earth but also androids wanted to take over the earth. Android first built to help people
4. people were leaving earth because of nucleur fallout.
HW:
Read up to page 83 in DADoES.10-27-11
X Day after showed had made up work.10-26-11
Progress reports handed out. Last chance tomorrow to get all make-up work done. End of quarter is Friday.
Students got Study Guide for Blade Runner ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Presentation of Uopian project. Platos Replublic. Three classes; producers, auxillaries, guardians. Metals relate to classes; gold-guardians, iron/bronze-producers, and silver-auxillaries. The healthy city(city of pigs) producers expend to include merchants, extra wealth to guardians
DADoES:
Book setting; future, post nucleur event, West Coast,
Protagonist; Rick Deckard, android bounty hunter, applies Voigt-Kampff test ( empathy) to deterime whether it’s a person or android.
Antagonist;
Discussion of movie “Majority Report”.
HW:
Read pages 48-68 in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”10-25-11
Watched rest of the movie “Minority Report”.
HW:
Read pages 35-47. Post to question #410-24-11
Collected papers. Watched five minutes of movie”Minority Report”. Returned books and got new one to read for next project” Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?” Read aloud fist two pages in class.
10-21-11
Mr. Bourne out; Ms. Judd sub. Watched “Minority Report”. Some students did their conferences with Ms. Judd10-20-11
Watched “Minority Report” 10-19-11
In Class quiz on vocab. Watched movie “ Minority Report”10-18-11
Watched movie “ Minority Report” Mr. Bourne meet with students during movie to check their outlines.
HW:
rough draft due tomorrow.10-17-11
Shared more Utopia projects from previous years.
Discussion of the project. What’s allowed and what is not’ Journal entry: ten favorite activities .
Writing the Literary Analysis ( posted on Mr. Bournes site)
An argument. Usually a literary anaylsis will involve a discussion of a tesxt as writing. in concepts. Specific attributes of text. Arguable point thesis about attributes. Evidence (quotes). Supporting a thesis statement; direct quotations. Analyze specific items, make an argument
Integrating Quotations: never just drop a qoutation into your paper. Use a qoute “sandwich”
Mr. Bourne handed out “Guidelines for Writing a Literary Analysis Essay” and how to do “Qoute SAnwich”. Will make copies for files.
HW:
Outline for paper(Utopian Creative Assigment) due tomorrow.10-14-11
NO SCHOOL10-13-11
Saw utopia presentation on Shakers. “1984” students staying for dicussion
Quesions:
1. Is the brotherhood truly good or bad? Thinks it good but O”brien uses it as a tool against others. Does it really exist. Idea was that it was out to destroy the Party.
Does the ends justify the means
HW:
Reading and vocab quiz on Monday
Read pages 232-245 “1984”
Read chap. “City of Ember”10-12-11
HW:
Vocab quiz tomorrow. Went over posted vocab list.
Transient Images video ( by Max Foster) dystopian society
Discussion of “City of Ember”
Question from post#3
Are people of Ember suppose to be smarter than average? is that a quality of a utopia and how everything is more advanced? Society has both smarter and less smarter people whether they are utopian society or not.
It say’s they will have to go down strem to get out of the city, wouldnit they want to go up stream or even up toward the surface? Instructions, boats, direction show they go down rather than up.
Why do Lina and Doon think its going to be easy for their families to find the way out when it took them sometime to figure it out themselves? Doon did not write everything down.
HW:
Read pages 215-232 in “1984”
Read chap. 18 and 19 “City of Ember”10-11-11
Went over schedule for rest of the week. Assignment: 1984/City of Ember and Farenheit 451. Due 10-21-11 Topic ideas due 10-17-11
Essay is a contrast/compare work on which ever book student is reading.
1984/city of ember : control of media, brain washing, lots of substance abuse, both at conflict/war, illusion of freedom, both are negative.
HW:
read pages 198-215 “1984” post to question #3
read chap. 17 “City of Ember” post to question #310-07-11
1984 people stayed.
Prole Winston Outer
better lives detached not trusted
no survellance not afraid of death work hard
more freedom sick of life
get away with more
rocket bombs
inner party Clarisse Julia
ok with world active rebellion
thinks different hope
knows there’s hope hates party10-06-11
I was absent .10-05-11
Journal-- piece of paper into three colums. Answer question in first column and then pass to left and they comment and then pass on left to third person and they comment on the two answers. First prompt- whose your favorite character and why?
Quiz tomorrow. Post another vocab word.
10-04-11
I was proctoring NECAP testing; so no notes.
HW:
read pages 152-165 in “1984”
read chapter 15 in “City of Ember”
RWR due Weds. You can either do RWR or take quiz10-03-11
Watched rest of Gattaca. Went over schedule for week
HW:
Read pages 138-152 in “1984”
Read chapter 14 in “City of Ember”
RWR due Weds. If you want to do it or take quiz.9-30-11
Watched another student Utopia presentation. Rest of period watched more of the film “Gattaca”.
HW:
Read pages 122-138 i “1984”
Chapters10 and 11 in “City of Ember”9-29-11
Watched more of the film Gattaca.
HW:
read pages 105 to 122 n “1984”
read Chapters eight and nine in “City of Ember”
Students know which book they are reading.
Journal entry: Write a paragraph that compares a character in the book with someone you know.
CORRECTION: Yesterdays homework: In regards to post, all students post to question #2 not #2 or #3. If you already posted to #3 go in and correct to proper question.Thank you.
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