Homework


 * 1984 -- BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU **
 * Homework readings and focus: **
 * Coming up: Test on Part One of 1984 when we finish this section. Date will be announced. **

Monday Night 4/2/12
Create a one-panel cartoon showing satire. Start by asking yourself: what do I want to change for the good of society? Would it be something in the class,school, the town, Long Island, the state, etc. How can I exaggerate it or make it ironic to show that it needs to be changed?

__On Thursday, March 29__
__** for Monday, March 26 **__ __** Tues., 3/20 - read Part 1 Chapters 2 and 3 **__ __** by Monday, 3/26 **__ __** Tues., 3/20 - read Part 1 Chapters 2 and 3 **__ __** Mon. 3/19 - finish Part 1 Chapter 1 **__
 * vocabulary quiz on first 10 words of vocabulary list (totalitarianism to clandestinely). The quiz will have a word box. You will fill in the blank. Study! it is not as easy as it seems. Context clues will be in the sentences. **
 * Read Part One Chapters IV and V. Answer question #7 on the handout given 3/22. The front of the handout reads Language, Irony and Paradox. **
 * write down the nature of parent/child relationships in Oceana. **
 * What is the Golden Country and why is it so special to Winston? **
 * Vocabulary - study words 1 - 5 from the list distributed in class. **
 * Read Part One Chapter IV and V. Answer question #7 on page 2 of the handout distributed in class. The front of the handout reads: Language, Irony and Paradox. **
 * write down the nature of parent/child relationships in Oceana. **
 * What is the Golden Country and why is it so special to Winston? **
 * Vocabulary - study words 1 - 5 from the list distributed in class. **
 * What events and scenes add to the tone of hopelessness in Winston's life? **
 * List examples of contrasts within the setting -- are things as you would expect them to be based on what they are called? **

**Read Chapters 4, 5 and 6. Continue to mark references to at least two of the following topics that this book deals with. Later on, from your markings, we will be able to develop a theme.** 1. knowledge of science and technology 2. responsibility 3. revenge 4. nature 5. family vs. loneliness 6. secrecy classwork - description of Romanticism as it applies to literature - application as applied to works of art - rhetorical triangle and romanticism applications as applied to letters 4 and beyond from Frankenstein read pages 17 to 34 (Chapters 1, 2, 3). Mark a few references to at least two of the following topics that this book deals with: 1. knowledge of science and technology 2. responsibility 3. revenge 4. nature 5. family vs. loneliness 6. secrecy
 * Dec. 20 Homework **
 * Read chapters 9 and 10. This is the last section of the narration by Victor Frankenstein as he is telling his story to Robert Walton on the ship--the second of three "frames." Continue to mark your book for evidence of a few of the topics listed in the homework assignment for Dec. 15.-- particularly nature and revenge. **
 * Dec. 19 Homework **
 * read chapters 7 and 8. Continue to track some of the topics listed in Dec. 15 homework. **
 * Dec. 15, 2011 **** homework **
 * Dec. 14, 2011 **
 * Dec. 14 -- Tonights' Homework **

Your critical lens essay on our human behavior unit was handed back today. To facilitate revisions, please type your essay and mail it back to me AS AN ATTACHMENT at jbranna@swr.k12.ny.us. You can fix as much as you can as you type and we will fine tune it next week when I once again have 20 computers in my classroom.
 * Due Oct. 12, 2011 **