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Units for Grade 11 University English

Brave New World
Some class time will be spent on clarifying methods of organizing and presenting research, but count on doing most of the work as homework
Assignment #1 (Partners) Allusions Research Project
This is a partners project. You need to make sure you are able to contact your parter electronically and that you work together to make sure the assignment is completed on time.
Assignment #2 (Individual) Radio drama is an interesting way to engage with classic works. In the 1950s, the CBS Radio Workshop recorded many such radio plays.
  1. Listen to Part 1 of the Brave New World radio play. This radio play covers the first seven chapters of the novel. (Note: Be prepared for a significant, perhaps shocking, increase in sound level at about 13 minutes into the play.)
  2. Read at least the first three chapters of the printed novel.
    In a detailed paragraph, describe ways in which you applied knowledge from hearing the play to making sense when reading the play.
  3. Quote three lines of dialogue from the last ten minutes of Part I of the radio play that represent ideas that strike you as particularly strange, odd, or interesting. Write a sentence or two for each quotation commenting on the words and ideas.
  4. Write a brief detailed explanation of why you would or would not listen to Part 2 of the play as an aid to understanding the novel. In your explanation focus on the usefulness for you of using audio files as learning tools. Refer to other experiences of auditory learning that either worked or did not work for you in the past.
 "Brave New World" was originally broadcast as the series premiere of The CBS Radio Workshop, in two parts, on January 27 and February 3rd, 1956. Aldous Huxley himself narrated this hour long adaptation of his dystopic novel of a quickly nearing future in which society manufactures babies for specific roles in life and people control and mellow their experience with the drug Soma...

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