Grade 12: Mustapha Mond’s Propaganda Factory

Mustapha Mond’s (insert other names here): Propaganda Department

Remember: there is “no civilization with out stability!” And, stability comes from the ability to follow the rules/principles set forth by the leader; but, how do the leaders get their people to follow the rules? How do leaders create stability?

Simple.

Through use of propaganda.

Directions: For this assignment, you are going to create and perform a 3 – 5 minute commercial (in class) for ONE of the following sub-departments or Mustapha Mond. You can create a product, or use an existing product/service in our society. You will perform these in class using any props, music, costumes, etc. I will be videoing your performance, so you must come prepared and know your lines!!!! This isn’t improve, so no script = no skit = no credit!

Sub-Departments:

1. Shop ‘til you drop: how are you going to reinforce consumption and an increase of production (think Poland Spring and the money they are making off of the water contamination). Think about mass consumption and capitalism.
2. Better living through science: this would be technology or technological advancements. It could be something like a hybrid car or even more complex like a bionic and prosthetic arm, or something that you create design yourself.
3. Never a dull moment!: Think of ways that society can be entertained, sensory stimulation is the highest form of happiness: going on a cruise, buying Sox tickets, going to Cancun, whatever: if you are entertained and distracted = happiness!
4. Happiness is a pill: feeling under the weather? Depressed? Take a pill! Medication makes everything better! These pills are a distraction or an easy way out, rather than fix the problem, medication covers it up? Think about it.

Guiding questions

• Who is your demographic? Who is your target audience?
• How is your product/service and presentation catered and appealing to your demographic/target audience?
• What is your slogan or jingle or catch phrase?
• How are you going to sell and reinforce your ideas?
• Ethos, Pathos, Logos = how are you going to appeal to your audience? Use a combination of these rhetorical techniques to persuade your audience to buy into your product/service.
• How will you gain the acceptance of you audience: how will they watch this commercial and think that they need or want your product/service?
• What is the style of your commercial = infomercial, celebrity endorsement, band-wagon (everyone is doing it), guilt, slander, etc.

Requirements:

• Plan: Create your proposal and planning sheet (one per group)= due at the end of class today
• Story Board = due at the end of class today
• Script = due Wednesday to practice (must be full script, with character, dialogue, stage directions, etc) and run for the full 3 – 5 minutes
• Final Script= due on the day you present. You will be graded on how well you reflect your script, reflect the guiding questions, and the thoroughness of the script.

Thursday	Friday
Jess, Jess, Jazz, Tania	Franky, Liana
Hector Davide Jeff	Egeria, Leticia
Dan, Joe, Brian, Dario	Tiny, Nancy, Nancy, Deyon
Ky, Jorge, Pete	Linda, Kev, Tony
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 

If there is a conflict or you are NOT on this schedule, you must see me on Tuesday during class!

Grade 12: BNW Ch. 18

Directions: Explain each one in context of the novel. Also, be sure to explain authors intent/message about society and life. Be sure to make connections to society as well!!!

1. What does “I ate civilization…I ate my own wickedness” (241) mean? Explain!!!
2. What is the significance of John’s self torture: how and why does he do it? What is the end result? What is the significance to the plot and to the overall message of the novel?
3. In pages 218-229, the Controller Mustapha Mond sums up the benefits of living in the “brave new world” Utopia: “The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get…” (220). It sounds like perfection, and yet the world Mond describes is deeply, intentionally horrifying. Why? What exactly is so bad about this society of the future? Is there anything good about it? Use the last chapter and results of the plot to explain your reasoning. This response should be at LEAST two paragraphs!!!

Grade 12: Article Response

Directions: click on the link here, South Korea: Child Starves, and read the article. This is a CRAZY article and you need to make inferences about society.

MLA FORMATTED RESPONSE (500 words) and include the following in your  HARD COPY response:

1. Your opinion: do you agree/disagree with the parent’s behavior
2. Infer: What can you infer about the priorities of society? How do you know? What makes you think this?
3. Connect: This took place in S. Korea, but what parallels can you make to American society? Be specific and give examples
4. Prevent: In your opinion, what is the major problem? How can you solve it? what can you suggest so that this doesn’t happen? How could you have solved the problem before it starts?

Due: Tuesday April 6th. Due at the beginning of class. I am not a printer, so email it to me if you are not in class, but be sure to get me a hard copy upon your return.

Quiz Grade!!! Your grade will be based on how well (insightful, thorough, big picture, etc) you answer the above questions.

*If you have trouble getting the article, go to BBC news and search the Title of the link. It will be the first archived article.

 

 

Grade 12: BNW Ch. 12 and 13

Directions: Read though chapters 12 and 13. Then, apply the information you have on defense mechanisms, Transference and Freud in general, to the responses below.

“The tight balloon of Bernard’s self confidence was leaking from a thousand wounds. Pale, distraught, abject and agitated, he moved amoun his guests stammering incoherent apologies assuring that the savage would  certainly be there…they ignored himl drank and were either rude to his face or talked to one another about him. Loudly and often offensively, as though he has not been there” (Huxley 175).

1. Take a close look at Bernard in the following chapters. Use the passage above as well as others, in order to make an analysis about him. Write a well thought response on the following questions: What are his relationships like? To whom does he seem to connect and identify the most? What defense mechanisms is he using in his relationships? To cope with his own identity and sexuality? How is he displacing his anger/issues/fixations/complexes/etc? What in the novel tells you that? Please cite at least TWO examples from the two chapters.
2. Analyze the coded sexuality in chapter 12 and 13. What is the literal meaning and explain how/why is it sexual; what is the non-sexual example supposed to mean?

Grade 12: Psychoanalysis Project Guidelines

Psychoanalysis Project

For this project:

• Working in group of 4 or 5, you will have to create a 10-15 minute movie (on DVD) in which you portray 5 characters (each member of your group must play a character) from this year’s literature, at least ONE from each term.
• Your portrayal must lend itself to a psychoanalytic understanding of each character.
• This will be a TEST grade
• Will be part of your FINAL GRADE for Term 5

 

You must have the following:

• You portrayal of each character will show that you understand not only the character, but his internal and external conflicts, the novel as a whole, and other people who have influenced that character as well. The actions and words need to be specific to their personality.
• One person in your group with access to and knowledge of i-movie (or similar software):
  • These people will be the first assigned to each group so that the “experts” are evenly distributed.
  • They have access to the software. They should NOT do this entire project by themselves, but will supervise and use their expertise.
• You will have to get access to computer software, your own recording device(s) and blank DVD
• A group leader
• Initial character psycho analysis: Use FREUD!!!
• Scripts/Stage direction (or a knowledge of what will be said/done in each scene)
• THREE documented meeting times in which you indicate what you accomplished
• A 10-15 min DVD (must work in my computer). I will keep the DVD’s
• Scenes, camera angles, music, an opening introduction, credits (credits/opening should not be more than 45 seconds TOTAL!!!

Your video should include the following:

• Technical: An opening introduction, at least 3 scenes, different camera angles, music/sounds, credits (just like a show)
• Logical setting which will reveals psychoanalysis: think of why these characters would be together and what they would reveal about themselves in this setting (talk show, real world, Breakfast Club, Teen Movie, etc). Each setting in the scene needs to be logical and explain something about the characters
• Set Design: The setting must look like it is where you have said it is: if you are on a talk show, it must look that way.
• Props/costumes: needs to be something specific to the characters: what would someone like “them” wear, depending on your setting? What would they have as a prop to show a fixation or specific trait in their psychoanalytical analysis?
• Character Actions: Must represent something significant about their personality, must show  psychoanalytical aspects of the character (either first or third person)
• Dialogue: The responses, arguments, conversations of each character must represent something significant about their personality, must show  psychoanalytical aspects of the characters. Why do they say what they say? Does it show an oral aggressive personality, for example?

Group Assignments:

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6
Brian	Deyon	Tony	Ky	Franky	Nancy T
Vlad	Danny	Nancy N	Peter	Liana	Jess M
Depina	Tiny	Linda	Davide	Leticia	Jess H
Dario	Hector	Kevin	Jorgelina	Egeria	Anna
Joe	Sean	Jeff	Jazz	Tania	XXXXXX

Grade 12: Current Event

Post: Right side of the room (side with Tania, Hector,Jazzmyn, Dario, Depina, Kevin, etc)

Respond: Left side of the room (Tiny, Petah, Ky, Linda, Leticia, etc)

Directions: those who are in the “post” group need to find an article about scientific advancements in society. This must be from a CREDIBLE website (CNN, FOX, BBC, etc). You need to post the link, a summary and a short response explaining if you think this will help/harm society. Explain the long and short term effects, either harmful or helpful. be sure to stick to ONE side of the argument, that way you are opening the assignment to debate, which is what I want to see: some word fighting!! You must post this by the start of class by FRIDAY 3/19.

Those in the “respond” group: pick ONE classmate’s post. Read the article and respond to it. It would be nice if we could get a debate going, and you could disagree with the  original post. Explain WHY you take that position and be sure to reference both the article and the classmates original response. You must post this by the start of class on MONDAY 3/22.

Good luck and no repeating articles!!!

Grade 12: BNW, Ch 9 – 11

Directions: Read each question and respond insightfully, you will have to reference othe chapters and How to Read Lit…

1. Why is Lenina on a “soma-holiday”? Explain the event and commentary on pages 142 to 145 (the end of the chapter), beginning with “Half ad hour….climbed out of the helicopter.” What does it mean?
2. Explain and analyze the following passage: “ Murder kills only the individual…Yes, at Society itself” (148). What does this passage say about the motto? Why is “society” capitalized (big Form, little forms)?
3. Explain and analyze the reunion.
4. What words are curse words in this society? Why do you think they carry such a negative connotation?
5. Why does Huxley mention Linda’s appearance so much? What is the purpose and significance? What point is he trying to make about this society and maybe ours?
6. Using the skills from the chapters “It’s all about sex…except for sex” in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, explain the relationship between Helmholtz and Bernard (use prior chapters and ch. 11 for reference).
7. Why won’t John take “soma” and how does he feel about his mother on soma as well? Why is she on it?
8. What is the upper school like for children in the World State? What do they learn? What is humorous? What is in the library and why? What do they actually learn and why do they need to go to school if everyone is predestined for social status anyway?
9. Why is Lenina interested in John? Are her feelings/motives true and genuine?
10. Using the skills from the chapters “It’s all about sex…except for sex” in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, explain the “sex” both encoded and literal, going on in pages 167 to 171, the end of the chapter.

Grade 12: BNW Ch. 3 and 5 Questions

Directions: Read the following chapters and respond. YOu need to get our your thoughts and put them onto paper. I want you to be able to know the novel so we can discuss external concepts. You will need to THINK and RESPOND. They are not content questions, but ones that require effort. I will read them!

DUE: MONDAY 2/22 (No excuses)

Chapter 3:

1. In the beginning of ch. 3, what are the children doing? What does this reveal about the society?
2. The director says: “Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s madness”(31). To what is he referring? Since this book is a satire on government control and the human condition, what do you think this could mean, metaphorically, within real society?
3. The nurse states: “It’s just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play” (31-32). What is interesting about this statement? What does it reveal about human instinct and conditioned society?
4. Explain the following passage along with its significance to Huxley’s satire: He let out an amazing truth…and therefore has been rigorously suppressed” (32).
5. Who is Mustapha Mond? Explain his job and his power.
6. What is a pregnancy substitute? What isn’t it “compulsory” until the age of 21? If people don’t get pregnant “naturally” then why would women need a substitute? What is the point? Refer to page 38.
7. Why does the controller like to eliminate struggle and pain from the lives of the people? Look at the lines “fortunate boys…” (44). Or, “consider your lives…”(45) and finally: “Horrible, precisely…our ancestors were so stupid…” (45). What positive and negative impact does this have on society?
8. Why is the conversation in ch. 3 so erratic?

Chapter 4:

1. Explain the slogans that Lenina recites. What are they? Why does she say them? What is the significance?
2. What goes on at the Hounslow Feely Studio?
3. Explain the passage about propaganda and connect it to satire: what is Huxley satirizing? Passage: “The various Bureaux of Propaganda and the college of Emotional Engineering were housed in a single sixty-story…twenty-two floors of them” (65 – 66).
4. Explain the “Savage Reservation” and explain its connection to New Mexico. Again, what is the direct connection of the satire?

Chapter 5

1. What is soma? Soma holiday?
2. Explain the song on page 76. What is it about and what does it mean?
3. What is going on page 84: “Round they went…”
4. Describe Bernard Marx: his physical appearance and also what, so far, are his internal/external conflicts? How is Bernard different from other people in his caste or other people in this society?
5. Explain and describe the following characters introduced from ch. 3 to 5: Lenina, Fanny, Henry Foster, Mustapha Mond

Grade 12: Baby Albert

Directions: Using the links below, read about Baby Albert. Take notes on who he is, when this happened, describe Albert, what happened to him, etc. Be sure to explain each experiment and the outcome. This will help you to understand why science is no longer allowed to experiment on children.  Then, be sure to check out the video posted. The more information you have the better you will understand Brave New World and even your own world…

What Ever Happened to Baby Albert?

Little Albert and the Experiments

The Experiments

Video on Albert: Classic Conditioning

Grade 12: BNW, Chapter 1 and 2

Directions: Answer these questions for WEDNESDAY 2/10. Be descriptive and insightful. Be sure to reference page numbers when necessary. It will help you to study.

1. Where is the setting? Place? Country? Year?
2. What is the World State’s Motto? Why do you think so? What do you think it indicates about this society? What about if this is supposed to be a satire of society? What do you think it is relating to in our society?
3. Who is the Director and what is his job?
4. In your own words, explain Bokanovsky’s process?
5. How does the process connect to concepts in the articles on designer babies?
6. Describe what you think the DHC looks like? Use detail and description.
7. Who is Pavlov? What is the Neo Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms and what happens there?
8. Who is Ford? What did he invent? When referring to the year, why is AF used? What do you think it means? Why choose him and not another important or progressive figure?
9. What is Hypnopedia? Elementary Class Consciousness?
10. Explain the following passage: “Till last the child’s mind is these suggestions….But all of these suggestions are our suggestions!” (28 -9).