Pre-AP English II October 26, 2017 Get a chromebook, log in to membean, and continue your vocabulary practice for this week (15 minutes).

Announcements Your final drafts for the YES! writing contest will be due on Monday, October 30th. If you would like for me to look at them before you turn them in, please have them to me by tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. I will not tell you a possible grade, but I will do a quick proofread. If you are going to see “Romeo & Juliet” next Tuesday, please remember to find time in the week to get in the Membean practice time that you will miss on that day. Your next vocabulary test will be November 7th.

Earlier this week, we… Began our pre-reading activities for Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Major themes & motifs: identity, individual vs. society, science and technology Key literary elements & techniques: flashback, foreshadowing, inference, irony metaphor, personification, satire

Objectives Today we will continue our pre-reading exercises getting ready to read Brave New World. We will briefly discuss satire as a literary genre/technique and its importance to the novel. We will look at the first paragraph of the novel. Examining the author’s diction and tone, we will make inferences about the text and predict what the story may be about, and what how we expect the themes present in the novel to play out.

Satire What is satire? Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Satire is often used in an attempt to promote social change and is most often aimed at the government. Examples of satire: “Weekend Update” from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, Austin Powers movies, the movie Scary Movie. What other examples can you think of? Can you think of examples in literature?

Satire Other forms of satire… Irony Parody (or, spoof) Sarcasm Verbal, situational, dramatic Parody (or, spoof) The songs of Weird Al Yankovick Sarcasm Satire dates back about 2,400 years to the ancient Greeks when Aristophanes made fun of the Peloponnesian War. In America, Ben Franklin was a master of political satire.

Brave New World In groups of 4, read the first paragraph of Brave New World. Discuss the paragraph with your group. Together, use the language in the paragraph to make predictions and draw conclusions about what you think the novel may be about. Write a paragraph together detailing your predictions. One group member will share the paragraph with the class and, as a class, we will make predictions which we will come back to after reading the first few chapters.

A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.

“The Lottery” Test Review You will need to know… The “who, what, when, where, how, and why” about the lottery ritual. How the lottery progressed throughout the story. What the superstitions surrounding the lottery are. Also… You will answer three short essay questions about the lottery covering: setting, characters, and analyzing the author’s intent.

Brave New World Brave New World Reading Schedule October 24 – 26: Pre-reading exercises October 27 – November 2: Chapters 1-3 November 3: Chapters 1-3 Exam November 3 – 9: Chapters 4-6 November 10: Chapters 4-6 Exam November 10 – 16: Chapters 7-9 November 17: Chapters 7-9 Exam November 17 – 26: Chapters 10-13 (Yes, you have to read over the break. Sorry.  Welcome to Pre- AP English II  )

Brave New World Brave New World Reading Schedule, continued November 28: Chapters 10-13 Exam December 1 – 7: Chapters 14-17 December 8: Chapters 14-17 Exam December 12: Response Essay Rough Draft Due December 19: Response Essay Final Draft Due December 19: Optional Group Extra Credit Projects Due (more about this later)

Homework Find as much information about Aldous Huxley’s life as you can online. Pay particular attention to his activities during the build-up to World War II in the early 1930s. Given the information that you find, what do you think his motivations were for writing Brave New World? Write a paragraph or two (no more than 2) which explains your conclusions. Extra credit: Find examples of satire in literature, movies, or other print sources. Make a PowerPoint or Prezi showing the example and explaining how it is satirical. (1 daily)

Tomorrow We Will… Take the test over Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”