Brace MapTo bring Huxley's settings to life, base groups will dissect an assigned portion of the novel to uncover all of Huxley's details. The following settings in the first three chapters of Brave New World will be explored:
Fertilizing Room, pages 3-10
Embryo Store, pages 10-18
Infant Nurseries, pages 19-26
Dormitory with Hypnopedia, pages 26-29
Garden at Playtime, pages 30-33
Girls’ Dressing Room, pages 36-38
Montage of Nine Years’ War, pages 47-52
Steps of the Setting Assignment:
- After the lottery for setting selection, base group members will skim the assigned pages, jotting down all objects they encounter in those pages in their notebooks. This is similar to what we did for objects in Room 271.
- Then students will take all the sub-parts and work back to the whole of the assigned setting by organizing the details in a brace map. The brace map should be created in your notebook.
- The frame of the brace map should contain the most illustrative and visual quotation, in your opinion, that Huxley puts forth in your assigned setting pages.
- The frame of the brace map should also contain your thoughts about Huxley's intent for including the specific objects. How does the setting relate to themes, images and character development in the novel?
- The base group will create an artistic representation of the setting to use as a visual aid for the class presentation.
- Groups present their setting creations while discussing their brace map and sharing their key quotation and commentary on the author's intent.
- Students will reflect on their classmates' setting presentations on a Key Word Notes page, which includes a summary sentence at the bottom of the chart on Huxley's intent regarding his detailed settings.
5 comments:
I know this doesn't apply under the setting assignment, but I simply wanted to discuss the reading. I felt that chapter 4 provided a very interesting contrast compared to earlier chapters. I feel that the discussion of Bernard Marx and Huxley's emphasis on the word 'stability' may serve as foreshadowing later on in the novel, where stability may be harder to achieve due to a person's desire to be free rather than as a class member.
Im glad we get to do thinking maps this year in World lit. After thoroughly studying these maps and their functions last year with Mrs Gens, I thought that I would not have the benefit of them in my senior year. I felt lost without any maps to help me learn until that first day of school when I walked into Mrs Roehl's roop and heard that we would be creating the infamous "Circle frame map" It only got better from then on. I can now say that after completing only two weeks of my senior year, I have already made every map there is to make. Thank you thinking maps for helping me learn.
I enjoyed watching the presentations. It was fun looking at the illustrations and seeing what the groups thought up and also how they organized the brace maps.
Huxley brings the setting to life through careful description and word choice. He also makes the odd (to us) seem normal and the normal seem odd.
Watching the presentations on the settings and creating the thinking map is really helping my understanding of the book. Also, it really helps just writing a few words down for each setting rather than an entire summary!
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