Wednesday's class...for Friday's Class

Once again...https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qxiZB_6TtltyCVdD05eQhWyWuxbwNa0dKs8bXJD86CY/edit?usp=sharing

Your assignment for Friday, November 1

Read, "The Quarter-Deck" and do the following,

Choose a character-Ahab or Starbuck

What is that character's motivation for being on the whale ship, Pequod? answer this question in a chunk.

The Quarter Deck

Your assignment

Here is the assignment

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qxiZB_6TtltyCVdD05eQhWyWuxbwNa0dKs8bXJD86CY/edit?usp=sharing

A few helpful videos....for your exam

A Modest Proposal summary video
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Macbeth summary video

Monday, May 13

What is power? What makes a powerful person? Answer both questions in a digital collage (use google drawing) showing scenes of power and powerful people for Wednesday May 15. 

Evaluation & Assignment for Monday, 4/29

Click it and fill it out

http://bit.ly/2uSM40u


For Monday, April 29

--Make a visual advertisement for war that highlights at least 2 of Goldstein's reasons for and advantages of war. 

--Explain how your advertisement shows Goldstein's points in a paragraph. 

For Friday, April 12

Choose a thought. Either agree with it or disagree with it. Make a four slide powerpoint presentation that proves your view with several pieces of evidence. Use events from the novel, contemporary equivalents and any other thoughts as evidence.

1. The surveillance of its constituents by the Party is necessary for its self-preservation because it affords the Party the ability to eliminate potential subversion early on. It is the most important element of the Party's tools.

2. The Party wants to control people's thoughts. Language limits thought, and thought is dependent on language. Indeed, no thought can be had without the right words with which to express it. Therefore, the Party's ambitions are attainable.

3. 1984 has many flaws. One of them is Winston Smith being the only character that can escape the effects of the Party's manipulation and control of information. Yet 1984 fails to explain his distinctive qualities as justification for his different nature.

4. Winston explores his memory in an attempt to reconnect with the past because he believes the past holds the answers to the Party's rise to power in the present. He therefore agrees with the Party's theory that to control the past is to control the future.

5.  It is necessary for Oceanians to believe that Oceania is in a constant state of warfare with the other superpowers, because the presence of a common enemy prevents internal conflict.

email completed presentations to sweidenaar@rcsnm.org on or before Friday, April 12

a few articles showing contemporary equivalents

Standing with the Venezuelan Revolution

Six Things Women in Saudi Arabia still can’t do

How Americanism are killing the English language

Trade War Imperils Amazon Rainforest, experts warn

Mass Immigration and Climate Change Doublethink

Amazon Alexa user receives 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger through ‘human error’

Watching interpretations on Monday, March 4

Here are a few really great videos

https://youtu.be/ciJkKS4vp24

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For Wednesday, January 23

Word Journal assignments for Act II are due.  5 entries from Act II.  If you do not recall the specifics of the word journal assignment see the previous post where the word journal page is attached.  Do this assignment on a separate sheet of paper. 

There will also be a vocabulary quiz over list 18. This is a tough way to start the week, but you are tough.  The quiz will be over definitions.

For Wednesday, January 16

Vocab Quiz--over definitions...list 17. Be ready.

Vocab list 17

Assignment for January 14

Your assignment is to complete four word journal entries.  They are explained on the paper whose link is below. 

Word Journal Act I