Thelenberg 2012 13

Homework

Recent homework

Homework over holidays until November 13th 2012

• Finish / Write your Reading Diary / Scrap book
• Minimum requirements/questions to be answered:

• Write a review of BNW according to handout (do not include pt. 2 - summary!)

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• Characterize two characters – one male, one female (round or flat, relation to each other?. Include typical quotations and explain why they are typical!
• Collect information on what life was like "before Ford" – that is before this "Brave New World"!
• What are the principles/aims of this new society/world?

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If you ask people what counts in life and makes it worth living, they will often come up with these answers:

• family/relationships
• happiness
• feeling/passion
• love
• freedom
• equaility
• friendship
• truth
• art
• peace/stability

What role do these values play in the utopian society of Brave New World, or in what form do they appear? (Cf. chapter 16/17)[part of your reading diary]

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• How would John OR Lenina have wished the scene in chapter 13 to be?

Write an outline + a short dialogue of John's or Lenina's ideal evening![part of your reading diary]

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Chapters 12+13

• Sketch Bernhard's development in these two chaptes (notes + pages!) [part of your reading diary]

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Chapter 11

• Write a realistic diary entry for John's diary in which he notes down all the things he doesn't understand or like about the new world! - Use these notes as a starting point, but refer to the book!

Basic Skills & Information

• Information on homework and oral grades
• Reading and Marking technique - SQ3R Method A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts.
• Working with Cartoons
• A good speech/speaker ...
• Answering questions on the text
• Starting a paragraph
• Starting an Essay/Comment
• Writing an interview
• Mediation
• Characterization
• Building an Argument

Scrapbook/Reading Diary:

Reading over the holidays - BRAVE NEW WORLD

Answer the questions in correct language and in a written form (except where only “notes” are asked)

Keep a simple log-/scrapbook (WIKI?) while reading the novel!

Stop from time (at least after each chapter) to time to think about what you have read!

Take simple but readable notes (in the WIKI?)

• Is there anything that puzzles you? Note down your questions or striking quotations!
• Do you find yourself liking or disliking a character? What is it about them that makes you feel so?
• Make notes (incl. page, perhaps short quotations?) that you can add to (e.g. use one page per character)!

Talks on "Brave New World"

15 Talks on chapters 5-18

Each talk includes

• 2 striking/typical/characteristic quotations + your explanation: what do they tell the reader about the characters involved, the society
• 1 conflict between characters/their views or between a character and the principles of the Fordian Society
• what image/notion/idea and expectation do readers have/get at the end of the chapter and how (quotes) are they led to think so?
• find + explain one passage that either is a good example of direct or indirect characterization or typical of the narrative perspective and point of view.

Here you find the Text of the book

• Chapter 5: Hein Di 25.9.
• Chapter 6: Müller Fr 28.9.
• Chapter 7: Kuhn Fr 28.9.
• Chapter 8: Wudy Di 2.10.
• Chapter 9: Zdzieblo Di 2.10.
• Chapter 10: Herold Fr 5.10.
• Chapter 11: Albert Fr 5.10.
• Chapter 12: Scholl Fr 12.10.
• Chapter 13: Höchner Fr 12.10.
• Chapter 14: Ott Di 16.10.
• Chapter 15: Wagenhäuser Fr.19.10.
• Chapter 16: Morgan Fr. 19.10.
• Chapter 17: Rossmanith J.
• Chapter 18: Hückmann

US Foreign Policy and Relations to Europe

Typically American? A collection of Stereotypes?

Typical Americans are .... / Typically, in America you find ... / In America "they" believe in ...

celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving (huge turkey) in a big way boys play basketball or football; girls are cheerleaders eat tons of fast food ⇒ obese OR they are very sporty love beauty contests ⇒ plastic surgery all own a gun streets are straight for miles are either conservative and patriotic or crazy lots of casinos and gambling huge shopping malls and outlets king size beds big houses with big frontlawns basketball-basket in every front-yard newspaper boys throw papers in the garden drive broken/huge cars*waste a lot of energy (big cars, air conditioning) don`t protect nature, e.g. use one-way plates and cuttlery American Dream: from dishwasher to millionaire, you can do it if you really want lots of poor/homeless people many people are not properly insured/ no social security often have to work two or more jobs to survive love the Oktoberfest in Munich drink always alkohol out of red bugs (⇒ cup) go to church regularly are not allowed to have sex before marriage all wanna be famous wear funny costumes at highschool graduation live in big cities/skyscrapers listen to hiphop or country music feel like/would like to be/behave like cowboys in saloons/on prairie gangs + much crime in big cities Americans are only interested in America

Cartoons on US Cultural Hgemony / Americanization

• Cartoon on Americanization
• Cartoon of President George W. Bush as Cowboy
• Working with Cartoons
• Notes on Cartoon!

Text on US Cultural Hegemony

1. What reasons for anti American feelings in Europe does the text give?

• American culture ousts European culture
• German or other European languages are being flooded with English terms and expressions
• Sense of national identity severly disturbed
• Europeans are afraid of loosing their cultural autonomy
• European culture replaced by American culture
• Vietnam-war
• Guantanamo Bay and Abu-Ghraib
• Americans ignore and don't know about European culture
• American worldview is centered on America
• Americans expect everyone to think and speak American
• Americanization as cultural imperialism