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Honors 11: End of 1984

We first wrapped up our discussion leader conversations from yesterday before delving into the end of the book with our final discussion leaders. Below are the Google doc forms and subsequent quizzes for today’s class’s discussion leaders. 3rd Hour: Google Doc … Continue reading

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Honors 11: “Brainwashing” and “We are the Dead”

Since it seems the sub did not give you your homework, we had to do double duty today and read Huxley’s chapter on “Brainwashing” and work on this chart of comparison. More will be done to complete it tomorrow and … Continue reading

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Honors 11: Survey Results and Intro to Du Bois

We discussed the results of the survey regarding our unit that we took in class today. As this took the majority of the hour, we had to push off our McIntosh discussion until Monday. We will discuss Fortgang, McIntosh and … Continue reading

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Honors 11: “Brainwashing” and “We are the Dead”

Due to absences, we put off going over the 2nd impromptu for now. We worked in groups to complete this dialogic journal, and we then shared out as a class. Afterwards, you worked in new groups to discuss “We are … Continue reading

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Honors 11: 1984 Impromptu #2

We took our second impromptu for the unit first thing this morning. It was 1984-based. Afterwards, I asked you to get started explicating David Bowie‘s song “We are the Dead” from his 1974 album Diamond Dogs. The lyrics are linked … Continue reading

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Honors 11: 1984 2.7-10

We first took a quiz on 2.7-10 of 1984 and our discussion leaders took over afterwards for 2.7-10. First hour had a creative project for our discussion regarding the creation of a book cover. You do not have any reading … Continue reading

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English 10: Huxley’s “Brainwashing” and Ch. 5-8

We finished our work today reading and annotating Huxley’s chapter on “Brainwashing.” Then we shared as a class our evidence and interpretation chart, adding to ours as we shared as a class. Afterwards, we worked on these Ch. 5-8 questions … Continue reading

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English 10: Ch. 1-4 Quiz and Huxley’s “Brainwashing”

We finished going over the Ch. 1-4 Discussion Guide from Friday and turned it into the inbox. Afterwards, I checked in your Ch. 5-8 annotations. We then took a quiz on Ch. 1-4 using our notes. You were then given … Continue reading

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Honors 11: 1984 Break Homework

Homework over break: “Brave New World Revisited” and 1984 Comparison Dialogic Journal Book 3: Ch. 1-2 + Discussion Leaders 2nd hour: The quote analysis work will be saved until we return from break. Have a lovely long long weekend! 🙂

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Honors 11: 1984, Brave New World Revisited and David Bowie

After taking impromptu #2, I collected it for points. We will score them and debrief the process tomorrow. Also, you were given the following song to explicate. It is from David Bowie’s 1974 concept album titled Diamond Dogs. Its B-side … Continue reading

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