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Wednesday April 29

Today we have fun-filled food wednesday, where a couple of lovely ladies brought us goldfish and capri-sun. Thanks again girls

• During class, we wrote our in-class essays on a sacrifice from Brave New World and in modern society.

• Homework:
• Essay 2, What's the point? Tie it all together
• Sign- up for last lecture with Smith

Friday 4/24

We had shortened classes today because of the spring assembly! In class we watched more of The Island. Seniors need to sign up for a day to give their last lecture.

HW:
-Read 17-18
-Work on last lecture

Monday April 20th

Well today Mrs. Smith shared with us our last three assignments.. 2 in class essays 100 pts each and our last lecture another 100pts which equals 300 pts... so that is 300 points out of 1200 points... THIS MEANS WE STILL HAVE TO WORK!! AHHH

All we did in class was work on our posters that we started last week and started watching The Island.

Homework: Last Lecture is coming up soon and Chp 17-18 is due on Friday!!

Scribe April 15, 2009

Wednesday April 15, 2009

Homework:
We have a Socratic seminar on Friday, so don’t forget to type up a summary/response of chapters 7-12. You NEED this if you want to participate.

Today we started class off with talking about the connections of Brave New World and the songs we listened to on Monday. It was deep... DEEP!!

We started to map out sacrifices of BNW vs. Our Society
Such as:
Pure science
High Art
Religion
Family
Individuality/Identity/Humanity
Education
History
Democracy

Have a good wed!!!!!!!

Monday April 13

Happy Monday Everyone!

Today we did a song activity in class (you can find it on the web page), we responded to the activity by answering the following questions:

• How does this relate to BNW?
• Think about sacrifices of our own society? What is our price of progress? What are the consequences of our actions? Who is responsible for these consequences?

Our homework for tonight is to read chapters 13-14 in BNW, also if you need to conference with Smith make sure to get in and get that done.

March 18th 2009

Today was a truly tragic day at Arapahoe.
We found out at the end of 3rd hour that we lost freshman Martin Walworth, a dear friend, good student and excellent musician. This is particularly difficult due to the recent passing of Jason Wren as well. We hope they rest in peace and are here for those who are struggling through this hard time. Seniors especially (but really all upperclassmen) this is our time to protect our school, to ensure the well-being of ALL Warriors, regardless of if we know them or not, now is the time to make that connection and take care of one another.
Read the Forward of Brave New World and come to class with questions:
What's the point?
What is goin gon at this time in the world?
Any other good questions you have.
here is an online text:
http://books.google.com/books?id=s2Kn2mBVCuAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=brave+new+world#PPR7,M1

Going back to watching the Simpsons last week....What was being satirized?
Stay at home moms
stupid teens
boringness at fishing
belief in media
politics/election/society
Employee/employer relationship
reporter
money to politics
tree huggers
vegetarians/impact on society
young politicians
women=brains
men=boys will be boys
the American family

These are all examples of horatian satire

We viewed some examples of satire from the Onion, they can be found on the English Lit page. We also got into groups and looked at some of the articles together and analyzed what is being satirized and how this is done.
We looked at Harper's Index (also on the website) and played on the smartboard a little bit.


Satire groups and presentations due on Friday!
Read the Forward and bring questions.
work on your last lecture, deadline is coming up.

Again, RIP Jason and Martin, in our hearts and memories forever.