Brave+New+World


 * Assignment for Wednesday, March 7, 2012**
 * The following assignment must either be completed in Google Docs or in a shared Word Document.
 * With your partner, define a “utopia.”
 * Discuss how the first three chapters in the novel depict the opposite of a utopia—a dystopia.
 * Generate a list of ideas that represent a utopia.
 * Your list should contain at least 10 strong ideas.
 * In red font and below several of the ideas on your list, explain how the society in Brave New World represents the opposite of that idea.
 * Either email your list to Mr. Gibbons (scott.gibbons@grant.kyschools.us) or share the Google Docs document with Mr. Gibbons.


 * Assignment for Thursday, March 8, 2012**
 * Meet with your reading group to discuss the sections of the text that you tabbed with the Post-it Notes.
 * Also discuss the sections of the Major Works Data sheet that you have completed.
 * Identify one group member to type a record of your discussion. Have that group member email Mr. Gibbons (scott.gibbons@grant.kyschools.us) the notes that he/she took regarding the group’s conversation.
 * When you are finished with the discussion, complete the following assignment individually and then with your partner.
 * In a narrative of a minimum of 250 words, describe, __**in detail**__, your personal utopia. Include ideas such as the following:
 * location (setting, climate, sights, sounds, etc)
 * people around you (if any)
 * your daily agenda
 * any rules you must follow or rules that no longer exist
 * your motivations (what drives you to do the things you do on a daily basis?)
 * your mood and why you always have that mood
 * what events are typical in your utopia?
 * in what sort of activities do you partake?
 * Etc.
 * When you finish a draft of your narrative, share it with your partner through Google Docs or email your partner the MS Word file.
 * Partners then edit and make comments on the narrative and send it back to the author with the comments attached.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia-Italic','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This can be done in MS Word by clicking on the "Review" tab and then clicking on the "New Comments" tab. Or through Google Doc by clicking on the "Comments" tab.