1. Pick 10 of the student-created questions (remember that you are free to customize them, and shift the "tell" portion if you want, so long as the question is specific). You are free to include up to 3 of your own in these 10.
Make sure that your questions are well-distributed across the whole book.
2. Answer all 10. In each,
-include, and fluently integrate, a supporting, relevant quote to answer the "show" portion.
-answer the "tell"/"explanation" portion clearly in 1-2 sentences for a single, fluen tly-connected 2-3 sentence answer to the question.
3. Answer 2 of the following 5class questions in short paragraphs:
*Pick three places where John uses Shakespeare to guide his interactions: how does each quote fit his situation? If you know the passage he's quoting from, explain the context. Armed with his Shakespearean insight, does he actually seem to have any insights the World-staters lack? How so?
*Pick three times any one character "can't deal " with the changes they're exposed to by events in the story. What are they most worried about? What most bothers them?
* Compare the Ritual at the Reservation with the solidarity service: What are the only common things these rituals share? In what ways are they basically the exact opposite? (at least three points of comparison)
* Choose any one challenge that John, as the perfect outsider, levels at World Controller Mustapha Mond: What does he ask? Based on this question or complaint, what's his assumption about what's so wrong in the World state?
In turn, analyze Mond's response, explaining at least 3 reasons why or how he defends the WS's practices against John's specific challenge.
* After Thursday's discussion of Plato's Cave, (Socrates's "analogy of the cave") explain three ways that BNW alludes to this very old philosophical argument. Choosing either John or Mond's point of view, explain three ways he either upholds or challenges Socrates's main idea.
READ THIS EXCERPT FOR THURSDAY:
(try to draw a picture or simple diagram, then label the symbolism of the whole analogy)
Also, one last funny tidbit, spend a minute with this funny student-recommended Grammar and humor source: ;)
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
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