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Week of 02/06/12

MONDAY- Periods 2, 5, 7, & 9-  Study Island assignments are due 02/29/12. Read to page 237 of 1984.  Period 4 -  Finish reading MAUS, and begin reading MAUS II.   Study Island is due 02/29/12. Draft a response to One Writer's Beginnings. Read the synthesis materials. Read the prompt first, brainstorm, and create a possible thesis statement. Then read and annotate the supplemental material highlighting lines that you may use in support of your own argument.

TUESDAY- Periods 2, 5, 7, & 9-  Study Island assignments are due 02/29/12. Read to page 240 of 1984.  Period 4 -  Read MAUS II.   Study Island is due 02/29/12. One Writer's Beginnings rhetorical analysis is due Thursday. Read the synthesis materials.

WEDNESDAY- Periods 2, 5, 7, & 9-  February Study Island assignments are due 02/29/12. Read to page 242 of 1984.  Period 4 - Read MAUS II.   Study Island is due 02/29/12. Read the synthesis materials. One Writer's Beginnings rhetorical analysis is due Thursday.

THURSDAY- Periods 2, 5, 7, & 9-  Study Island assignments are due 02/29/12. Read to page 245 (the end) of 1984 by Monday.  Period 4 -  Read MAUS II.   Study Island is due 02/29/12. Read the synthesis materials.

FRIDAY- Have a good weekend.
Periods 2, 5, 7, & 9-  Study Island assignments are due 02/29/12. Read to page 245 (the end) of 1984 by Monday.  Period 4 -  Read MAUS II.   Study Island is due 02/29/12. Read the synthesis materials.
Go to http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2001.html and look at examples of rhetorical analysis prompts and essays.

Notebook Entries

#45- Create a grid of the 4 ministries. List the full name, the Newspeak name, the function, and the point of irony.
#46- How is irony involved in the ministries? 2. What is ironic about the way the dark-haired girl wears the Jr. Anti-Sex League sash? 3. What contradictions appear in the description of O'Brien? 4. What does Winston hope about O'Brien?
#47-Describe each member of the Parsons family.
#48- "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -JFK  Copy. Paraphrase. Identify the subject. Relate to 1984. Also, define character, characterization, setting, and theme. Answer the following: Describe Ms. Parsons. Use a quote from the text. Why does Ms. Parsons look the way she does? Why do the children want to see the hanging, and what does this tell us about them? Why would a government brainwash children? What is "thoughtcrime"? In what city, province, and superstate does Winston live?
#49- Copy. Paraphrase. Identify the subject. "We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police, but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability." -David Mamet
Also, read pages 32-33. In your own words define doublethink.
#50- "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." -Henry David Thorough
Copy the quote. Paraphrase it. Identify the subject. Explain.
#51- "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. " - MLK Jr
Define symbol (1202), symbolism (1202), theme (1203), motif (1197).   1. What are the themes of 1984? 2. Motifs: urban decay, doublethink. 3. Symbols: the glass paperweight, Big Brother, St. Clement's Church, "the place where there is no darkness." (24)
#52- Define characterization (1191), direct characterization, indirect characterization, static character, and dynamic character. 1. Why does Winston buy the glass paperweight? (pp. 80-81) 2. What is ironic about Winston's love of his work? 3. What does ownlife mean? Why is it dangerous? (70) 4. What is a memory hole? (p. 36) 5. Why does Winston think Parson's will not be vaporized? (p. 53)
#53- Read page 69 again. "The heresy of heresies is common sense...Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. If that much us granted, all else follows." What does Winston mean by this?
#54- Create a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Winston and Julia. Why is their age difference important?
#55- Propaganda- information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. 2. The particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.  
1. Describe a television commercial that sticks in your mind. What about it makes it memorable? 2. Read page 103. Why is the singing bird so hard for Winston to comprehend?
#56- "She hated the party, and said so in the crudest  words but she made no general criticism of it" (p. 110). Explain this quote. What does it mean that she "made no general criticism of it"?
#57- Read page 112: "In a way she realized that she herself was doomed, that sooner or later the Thought Police would catch her and kill her, but with another part of her mind she believed that it was somehow possible to construct a secret world in which you could live as you chose. All you needed was luck and cunning. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness..." 1. How does Julia's thinking differ from Winston's? 2. Does her age have anything to do with the way she thinks? 3. Why might people from different generations think differently?
#58- 1. The attempt to portray people and things as they really are without idealizing. (REALISM) 2. A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform. (SATIRE) 3. An inscription at the head of a chapter. (EPIGRAPH) 4. The vantage point from which a writer tells a story. (POINT OF VIEW)
#59- What items does Julia bring to the room on pages 117-119? Where does she get these items? Why are these items significant? How does Winston react to the rat?
#60- Read the persuasive writing prompt. Create a pro/con list. Write a working thesis statement.
#61- Read pp. 138-139. Describe O'Brien's place. List the 3 classes in Oceania. Describe each. Read p. 142. What do they pledge to do? Look at 181-185. How does Winston compare the proles to the thrush (180-182). What "happened" to Mr. Charrington?

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