Mrs. Finch’s Page

 

 

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English 10

 

Holocaust Webquest: http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=130447

 

Night Book  Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sM_av9i3Q&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL7C9610CD9433FA88

 

Children of the Holocaust: http://www.graceproducts.com/fmnc/main.htm

 

English 11

 

Of Mice And Men Webquest:  http://www.slrsd.org/slrhs/library/omm.html

Depression Photos: http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/2363/

 

 

 

 

 

Step One:  Go to the following links and read about Puritan Life: http://www.ushistory.org/us/3d.asp

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog02/transcript/page04.html

 

You may also use your class notes to supplement the information on this website.  Each person in the group should write a well-developed essay regarding Puritan Life.  Be sure to check with your group members to be sure the information is not repeated.

 

Step Two:  Go to the following site (http://www.puritansermons.com/poetry.htm) and choose one of the featured Puritan poets:Anne Bradstreet, William Cowper, Ralph Erskine,Edward Taylor,Michael Wigglesworth, John Newton, Samuel Rutherford or Richard Baxter.  As a group, choose two of the poet’s poems and print them out.  As a group analyze the poem looking for the following:

  1. How does this poem portray Puritan life?  Is the poem similar or different to what you have read about Puritan life?
  2. Find any literary devices included in the poem

Write a brief summary of the poem

 

English 12

Go to the following website and choose one personal narrative to read and reflect on:

 

http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/essayexperience.htm

 

Personal Narrative Tips:

http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/topnarrative07.htm

 

 http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/006.shtml

 

Links for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:

Memorials and other resources:

 http://academics.uww.edu/cni/webquest/Spring05/memorial/resources.html

http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/p/monuments.htm

 

Victims of the attack on the World Trade Center:

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/terroris1/p/wtc_September11.htm

http://www.9-11heroes.us/victims-world-trade-center.php

http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/victims/wtcsurvivors.html

http://www.11-sept.org/survivors.html

 

Families of Victims:

http://www.911families.org/

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2010/sep/11/families-911-victims-celebrate-lives-while-commemorating-death/

http://www.jontzen.com/tribute.htm

 

Victims of the attack on the Pentagon:

http://www.jontzen.com/tribute.htm

http://pentagon.spacelist.org/

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/pentagon-attack.htm

http://www.defendamerica.mil/remember/remember_a.html

 

 

Victims of the flight 93 highjacking:

http://www.jontzen.com/tribute.htm

http://articles.cnn.com/2004-07-22/us/911.flight.93_1_hijacker-passengers-cockpit-door?_s=PM:US

 

 

 

 

Links for MLA Citation:

http://www.studyguide.org/research_paper_guide_3.htm#Works%20Cited%20Page

http://www.studyguide.org/MLAdocumentation.htm

 

Composition 101 and 102

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=j6NsKmZbk58C&dq=one+flew+over+the+cuckoo's+nest+questions&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=2Ny0S4zJM4aglAeOoNWSAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

 

Genetic Engineering and Cloning:

http://library.thinkquest.org/19697/index.htm

 

SAT Prep:

 http://www.ineedapencil.com/DownloadPDF.aspx?TestID=gzJnoopBR9dvk/NJp2iJbA==

 

 

Thursday: http://www.majortests.com/sat/sentence-completion.php

Complete Tests One and Two

http://majortests.com/sat/8-week-sat-prep-plan.pdf

http://www.number2.com/exams/sat/companion/users/index.cfm?s=WgNlSMofx42336944

 

 

 

Brave New World Website

 

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Step One:  Read all the instructions carefully. Then, among your group, decide who will play the role of the science specialist, the historian, the artist and the political specialist.
**Each member must choose a different role.  You will be held accountable individually for your portion of the website you create.

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Role 1: The Scientist/Technologist
You are responsible for gathering, organizing, and presenting information focusing on the use of technology.. In particular, you should examine breakthroughs in manufacturing technology (the assembly line).

Role 2: The Historian
You are interested in studying the possible influences of historical events. In particular, you should examine any major military incursions, natural disasters, and other significant world events.

Role 3: The Media Specialist
You are interested in the use of propaganda and media, especially advertising. 

Role 4: The Psychologist
You are interested in developments and theories that were significant during the early 1900’s, including human experiments and prominent psychologists of the era. 

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Step 2: Each member of the group will have different directions for step 2.  You are only responsible for the task described for YOUR role.  You are expected to take thorough notes in response to the questions given.  Your notes will make up the bulk of the information you include in the website you will create.

 

If you are the Scientist: Consider why Henry Ford plays such a prominent role in Brave New World:   

Henry Ford’s business philosophy shaped America, according to Lee Iacocca’s firsthand account of Ford’s business practices and beliefs. Lee Iacocca was president of Ford, later chairman of Chrysler, and recently. founded EV Global Motors. 

 Read the article “Driving Force: Henry Ford” http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989769,00.html

 

and then write responses to the following questions.


a.       How did Ford’s modest agrarian (farming) background influence the type of car he decided to make?
b.      How did Ford react to backers who wanted him to do things their way (make a car for the rich)?
c.       Why was Ford interested in mass consumption?
d.      What is Ford’s connection with the interstate highway system?  Why?
e.       According to Iacocca, how is Ford responsible for creating a middle class in America?
f.        Why did Ford raise his workers’ pay?
g.       In what ways did Ford take care of his workers like a father (paternalism)?
h.       How was Ford’s paternalism similar to the way the World State takes care of its citizens in Brave New World?

 

 

If you are the Historian:  Collect background information on Aldous Huxley and consider how his life is reflected in his work.

 According to the author of this biography, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Aldous_Huxley how are Huxley’s own experiences recreated in Brave New World?   Use the website to answer the following questions.

  1. How was England in Huxley’s time like Brave New World?
  2. Which characters are most like Huxley himself?  How?
  3. What was an influential event in Huxley’s life that occurred when he was 14?  How might this event be reflected in Brave New World?
  4. What illness did Huxley experience at 16?  How did it affect his life?
  5. What was Huxley’s impression of America?
  6. Huxley had a rather paradoxical view of drug use, according to this article.  What were his views, and how are his views evident in the novel?

If you are the Media Specialist:  Consider persuasion and propaganda
In our society, we are not subjected to sleep teaching, Neo-Pavlovian conditioning, or many of the other persuasive techniques used in Brave New World.  On the other hand, advertisers, politicians, and others attempt to persuade us every day and they are much more effective at doing so than you may think.

 

Logical fallacies.  In advertising and in other persuasive media, the viewer is sometimes left with a false impression.  In some cases this effect is purposeful.  In order to identify when you are being manipulated by a logical fallacy, you need a basic understanding of fallacies and some examples.  This webpage lists just a few of the most common fallacies.  http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/fallac/                                    
Define the term “fallacy.”  Pick three fallacies that interest you and come up with your own example for each and explain why it is an example of the fallacy.

 Subliminal Advertising.  Can advertisers persuade you without you even knowing what’s happening?  Go to the site “Subliminal Advertising” http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/  


Read the background information. Then choose two links under each level presented.  Summarize your reading. 

Finally, find an advertisement not discussed in the “Subliminal Advertising” site.  Analyze the ad in light of what you read.

 

 

If you are the Psychologist:  Consider the psychology behind Brave New World.  The work of several famous psychologists influenced the writing of this novel.  Use the sites given to answer the related questions.


  Who was Ivan Pavlov and how did he end up experimenting on salivating dogs?  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhpavl.html

 Read about the birth of Behavioral Psychology and John Watson’s research  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh13wa.html.  Explain how his experiment with Albert B is eerily similar to how the Delta children are conditioned to hate books and flowers in chapter 2.


    BF Skinner ( www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhskin.html )
a.      How did Skinner develop the ideas of “operant behavior” and “shaping behavior” with pigeons?   
b.      What similarities did Skinner notice between how children learn to speak and his experiments with pigeons?   
c.       What is your opinion on Skinner's experiments using “punishment” and “reward?”  
d.      Do you agree that “everything we do and are is shaped by our experience with punishment and reward?” Why/not?

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Step 3:
Everyone in the group must complete this step individually.  Use the following link.  It will lead you to a video interview with Huxley.  Watch the three video segments.  As you listen, record notes about ideas that relate to your role (historian, scientist, psychologist, media specialist).  Record at least 5 exact, specific quotes from Huxley and explain how each contributed to your understanding of the novel.  http://www.huxley.net/ah/huxley-interview.html  **Please use headphones to listen to the interview.  I have some you may borrow if needed.

 

 Step 4:
Sift through the information you gathered.  Consider Brave New World as an example of social protest literature.  What did you learn about Huxley and his society?  What was Huxley concerned about when he wrote the novel?  (For example, how does the novel reveal Huxley's concerns about B.F. Skinner's theories?  How does it reveal his attitude toward mass production and Henry Ford?)

Find no less than 5 quotes from the novel to prove your connections between the research information and your ideas about what Huxley is protesting.

Step 5:  Plan your website as a group. 

 

Your group should plan and build a collaborative home page for the site including
-         an interesting, relevant, and appropriate title
-         at least one quote from the novel
-         at least one visual (picture, graphic, etc)
-         an overview of the information included on the site
-         a directory detailing the pages that each group member will create

 Discuss ideas for any rules or formatting that you want to keep consistent between pages.

 

Step 6:
The website will include individual pages contributed by each group member.  Build your individual pages that will be linked to the group’s homepage.  Your individual page should include
-         an interesting, relevant, and appropriate title
-         at least 3 quotes from the novel
-         explanation of how the topic your researched connects to the novel as social protest literature
-         at least 2 visuals