1984 and V for Vendetta offer two visions of the future: one of totalitarianism without end; the other of hope in the rise of a free society. Which will prove a more accurate prediction? Why?
In your essay, you must consider both the book(s) and today's global society. Think about some of the issues and challenges facing the world right now, including:
scientific advances
current political situations
wars
population explosion
natural resources/environmental issues
epidemics
natural disasters
nuclear holocaust
YOU MUST PROVIDE at least 5 SPECIFIC EXAMPLES from the book(s) and/or other sources (information you may have learned in other classes or from the news or from other books and articles). Direct quotes would probably strengthen your argument. You may want to spend some time researching to find some choice quotations.
YOU MAY BRING IN ONE PAGE OF HANDWRITTEN NOTES.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Rest For The Wicked
Who said "There's no rest for the wicked?"
You can have another night to complete your presentations.
They are now due TUESDAY, APRIL 7. Make them Magnificent!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Reminders
1. Complete, detailed outlines are due along with presentations.
2. Work on your presentations. They are due MONDAY. If you are doing a PPT, please email it to me. If you are doing a poster or another "hard" presentation, bring it to class, please.
3. Keep reading. Quiz on FRIDAY.
2. Work on your presentations. They are due MONDAY. If you are doing a PPT, please email it to me. If you are doing a poster or another "hard" presentation, bring it to class, please.
3. Keep reading. Quiz on FRIDAY.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Detailed Outline: TYPE IN WORD DOC!
Detailed outline: Thoroughly complete the following outline. YOU MUST TYPE IT. YOU MUST USE 3 Legitimate Sources and write a works cited page. Use not only your opinion, but your knowledge of history to form your answers.
1. When should one rise up against his/her government, even if it means going to prison or worse?
A. Main Idea:
B. Supporting Reason #1
C. Supporting Reason #2
D. Supporting Reason #3
2. How far would you, personally, have to be pushed before you would turn against your government? What policy changes would drive you to risk your freedom and/or life?
A. Main Idea:
B. Supporting Reason #1
C. Supporting Reason #2
D. Supporting Reason #3
3. What revolutionary leader can you use as a model—someone who saw that conditions were unacceptable to the point where he/she risked freedom and life to rebel?
A. Main idea (who is the leader?)
B. Why did this person rise up in protest? Be specific.
C. How did this person protest? Again, be specific.
D. What did he/she risk in the process?
E. What changes did his/her protest help bring about?
F. How did the authorities and/or society react to this person?
G. How and why is this person an inspiration to others?
1. When should one rise up against his/her government, even if it means going to prison or worse?
A. Main Idea:
B. Supporting Reason #1
C. Supporting Reason #2
D. Supporting Reason #3
2. How far would you, personally, have to be pushed before you would turn against your government? What policy changes would drive you to risk your freedom and/or life?
A. Main Idea:
B. Supporting Reason #1
C. Supporting Reason #2
D. Supporting Reason #3
3. What revolutionary leader can you use as a model—someone who saw that conditions were unacceptable to the point where he/she risked freedom and life to rebel?
A. Main idea (who is the leader?)
B. Why did this person rise up in protest? Be specific.
C. How did this person protest? Again, be specific.
D. What did he/she risk in the process?
E. What changes did his/her protest help bring about?
F. How did the authorities and/or society react to this person?
G. How and why is this person an inspiration to others?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Blog Homework.
Briefly, answer the following:
1. When should one rise up against his/her government, even if it means going to prison or worse?
2. How far would you, personally, have to be pushed before you would turn against your government? What policy changes would drive you to risk your freedom and/or life?
3. Choose a revolutionary leader--Thomas Jefferson, MLK, Ghandi, Bob Dylan, Nelson Mandela, Muhammed Ali, etc.--as your model. This person MUST have risked his/her freedom and/or life for the cause. Most revolutionary leaders have spent time in prison, have been beaten by police, or have been assassinated for their ideas.
1. When should one rise up against his/her government, even if it means going to prison or worse?
2. How far would you, personally, have to be pushed before you would turn against your government? What policy changes would drive you to risk your freedom and/or life?
3. Choose a revolutionary leader--Thomas Jefferson, MLK, Ghandi, Bob Dylan, Nelson Mandela, Muhammed Ali, etc.--as your model. This person MUST have risked his/her freedom and/or life for the cause. Most revolutionary leaders have spent time in prison, have been beaten by police, or have been assassinated for their ideas.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Revolutionary Presentations
Your presentations will have three parts:
1) A blog assignment worth 5 pts where you will list the main points of your presentation.
2) A very detailed outline that you will bring in for writing conference on Monday or Tuesday.
3) The actual presentation. This could be a Powerpoint presentation or another type of slide show that incorporates your written content. Or you could make a poster or sculpture. You can discuss your ideas with me when we meet.
The presentations should be creative, but MUST include research from 3 legitimate sources (and not Wikipedia).
You must incorporate the text into your presentation.
You must also use visual images--sculpture, painting, drawing, photos, etc. You may also include music, so long as it does not get in the way.
1) A blog assignment worth 5 pts where you will list the main points of your presentation.
2) A very detailed outline that you will bring in for writing conference on Monday or Tuesday.
3) The actual presentation. This could be a Powerpoint presentation or another type of slide show that incorporates your written content. Or you could make a poster or sculpture. You can discuss your ideas with me when we meet.
The presentations should be creative, but MUST include research from 3 legitimate sources (and not Wikipedia).
You must incorporate the text into your presentation.
You must also use visual images--sculpture, painting, drawing, photos, etc. You may also include music, so long as it does not get in the way.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Big Brother
Don't talk of dust and roses
Or should we powder our noses?
Don't live for last year's capers
Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal
He'll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin,
then we can really begin
Please saviour, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
[CHORUS]
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
We want you Big Brother, Big Brother
I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone and you've been every where
Lord, I'd take an overdose if you knew what's going down
[CHORUS (3 times)]
We want you Big Brother
California Uber Alles
I am governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president...
Carter power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school
California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California
Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
California Uber alles…
Uber alles California…
Now It Is 1984
Knock knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower
Die on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
California Uber alles…
Uber alles California…
1984
Welcome back sophomore seawolves!
Beginning today, we will devote our time in SophoMorphology to the study of 1984. This novel imagines a dystopian future (though the year 1984 is obviously long past in our minds) in which a government run by a "fearless leader" called Big Brother controls the way its citizens think and act.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, will rise up against Big Brother and challenge the oppressive system of government.
Your first mission, young revolutionaries, is to create a presentation that examines the following questions:
1. When is it time to rise up against one's country?
2. How far would you, personally, have to be pushed before you would turn against your government? What policy changes would drive you to risk your freedom and/or life?
3. Choose a revolutionary leader--Thomas Jefferson, MLK, Ghandi, Bob Dylan, Nelson--and provide an overview of his/her struggle against authority. Why did this person rise up in protest? What did he/she accomplish? How did the government/authority react to this person?
Beginning today, we will devote our time in SophoMorphology to the study of 1984. This novel imagines a dystopian future (though the year 1984 is obviously long past in our minds) in which a government run by a "fearless leader" called Big Brother controls the way its citizens think and act.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, will rise up against Big Brother and challenge the oppressive system of government.
Your first mission, young revolutionaries, is to create a presentation that examines the following questions:
1. When is it time to rise up against one's country?
2. How far would you, personally, have to be pushed before you would turn against your government? What policy changes would drive you to risk your freedom and/or life?
3. Choose a revolutionary leader--Thomas Jefferson, MLK, Ghandi, Bob Dylan, Nelson--and provide an overview of his/her struggle against authority. Why did this person rise up in protest? What did he/she accomplish? How did the government/authority react to this person?
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Speech Rubric
Speech Rubric: 25 possible points
In grading your speeches, I considered clarity, evidence, your apparent knowledge of both your topic and your actual written speech, vocal delivery and fluency, and physical presence, including eye contact, comfort level, etc.
19-20: Reading too much plus at least one of the following flaws: speech too short, stumbles, mumbling, nervous body language, appear unpracticed, weak evidence clarity issues.
Made some eye contact and had some command of the topic.
20.5-21.5: Reading too much, but more eye contact than above. Seem better prepared
and composed.
22: Fluent Delivery, Good Command of Topic, Comfortable
23: Very Fluent, dramatic. Excellent command of topic. Very comfortable.
Good eye contact.
23.5: Even better!
In grading your speeches, I considered clarity, evidence, your apparent knowledge of both your topic and your actual written speech, vocal delivery and fluency, and physical presence, including eye contact, comfort level, etc.
19-20: Reading too much plus at least one of the following flaws: speech too short, stumbles, mumbling, nervous body language, appear unpracticed, weak evidence clarity issues.
Made some eye contact and had some command of the topic.
20.5-21.5: Reading too much, but more eye contact than above. Seem better prepared
and composed.
22: Fluent Delivery, Good Command of Topic, Comfortable
23: Very Fluent, dramatic. Excellent command of topic. Very comfortable.
Good eye contact.
23.5: Even better!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Following Directions: A Homework Grade of 5 Possible Points
This assignment is due Tuesday, March 3rd by 8:00. Absolutely NO late work will be accepted. 8:01 = late.
Instructional Paragraph. This assignment must be completed using MLA formatting, including the header.
1. Open up a new document and write your Name, Teacher, Class and Date in MLA Format.
2. Write a Title in MLA Format
3. Write a one-paragraph note to your classmates explaining how to access the blog, and how to submit a paper to your teacher.
4. Make sure that your paragraph is AT LEAST 50 words in length, but NO LONGER than 60 words.
5. Submit your paragraph to me at mr.cmwhite@gmail.com
Good Luck.
Instructional Paragraph. This assignment must be completed using MLA formatting, including the header.
1. Open up a new document and write your Name, Teacher, Class and Date in MLA Format.
2. Write a Title in MLA Format
3. Write a one-paragraph note to your classmates explaining how to access the blog, and how to submit a paper to your teacher.
4. Make sure that your paragraph is AT LEAST 50 words in length, but NO LONGER than 60 words.
5. Submit your paragraph to me at mr.cmwhite@gmail.com
Good Luck.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Gossip Rag
For Their Eyes Were Watching God, you will create gossip magazines in groups. Each of you will write a scandalous article of 2 pages, with the exception of your team's EDITOR. The editor will put all of your work together and produce the magazine.
Block 5 Groups: 1: Aitken, Salvo, Berry, Lee, Fraser, Kickham
2: Benoit, Burke, Hauck, Karambelas, Lauermann, Novick, Phenjati
Block 6 Groups: 1: Flaherty, Conroy, Maloney, Rusesabagina, LePage
2: Anza, Kanto, Shackleton, Lucey, Richardson, Young
Look back through the book (which you will finish before this Thursday!) and choose an event in Janie's life that you think is gossip-worthy (hint--almost all the events in the book are!).
Pretend you are a gossip writer for US or People and write your article in a sensationalistic way. Show your shock and disapproval over Janie's scandalous actions!
Your article must include the following:
1. 500 words (use the word count function under your toolbar to be sure).
2. Two images (photos, cartoons, etc.) that relate to your story. You must insert them into
your article.
You will find your images, write your article, and submit it to your editor. The editor will put the articles and images together into a magazine, including a table of contents, a cover with a magazine title and a back. You may do this all in Word or you may use another publishing program--Comic Life works well for you Mac users.
If you cannot decide upon an editor, I will assign one. Remember, the editor does not need to write any content.
Due dates: You must submit your material to your editor (and email a copy to me at mr.cmwhite@gmail.com) by Friday, February 27th.
Completed Magazines are due on Wednesday March 4--email copy to mr.cmwhite@gmail.com AND hard copy on my desk by 12:00 NOON.
Block 5 Groups: 1: Aitken, Salvo, Berry, Lee, Fraser, Kickham
2: Benoit, Burke, Hauck, Karambelas, Lauermann, Novick, Phenjati
Block 6 Groups: 1: Flaherty, Conroy, Maloney, Rusesabagina, LePage
2: Anza, Kanto, Shackleton, Lucey, Richardson, Young
Look back through the book (which you will finish before this Thursday!) and choose an event in Janie's life that you think is gossip-worthy (hint--almost all the events in the book are!).
Pretend you are a gossip writer for US or People and write your article in a sensationalistic way. Show your shock and disapproval over Janie's scandalous actions!
Your article must include the following:
1. 500 words (use the word count function under your toolbar to be sure).
2. Two images (photos, cartoons, etc.) that relate to your story. You must insert them into
your article.
You will find your images, write your article, and submit it to your editor. The editor will put the articles and images together into a magazine, including a table of contents, a cover with a magazine title and a back. You may do this all in Word or you may use another publishing program--Comic Life works well for you Mac users.
If you cannot decide upon an editor, I will assign one. Remember, the editor does not need to write any content.
Due dates: You must submit your material to your editor (and email a copy to me at mr.cmwhite@gmail.com) by Friday, February 27th.
Completed Magazines are due on Wednesday March 4--email copy to mr.cmwhite@gmail.com AND hard copy on my desk by 12:00 NOON.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Listen as You Read
I've added audio files of Their Eyes Were Watching God to the blog. Scroll down, and below the new-and-improved calendars, you'll see the player. just click play, and read along. I would advise NOT simply listening, as you will most surely forget half of what you've heard.... READ and LISTEN and HIGHLIGHT your text as you go. Take notes. Have fun.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
HW for Thursday
Packet #3 is the last part of the poetry packet. You need to read the two versions of "My Father's Love Letters" then answer the Discussion Points:
I. Meaning
II. Imagery
III. Speaker and Voice
That'll be good enough for now.
I. Meaning
II. Imagery
III. Speaker and Voice
That'll be good enough for now.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Speech Links posted
Go to the column on the right for links to speeches.
Please listen and complete homework for Thursday. Enjoy.
Please listen and complete homework for Thursday. Enjoy.
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