Brave New World Reading Preparation

Get Ready for a Crazy New World

Warm-Up (top left)

Choose two prompts with which to AGREE/DISAGREE.

Write 1-2 sentences explaining why.

Prompt Choices

True happiness is never attainable.

It is wrong to control the physical and intellectual characteristics of humans before they are born.

Science and technology can help make the world a happier place.

Life would be better if everyone could legally take as many “Happy Pills” as they wanted, whenever they wanted, to be happy.

Sexuality is a personal choice that should not be influenced by other individuals or the community.

People who are mentally strong can never be brainwashed.

Family is not important or necessary in society if everyone helps each other out when needed.

Cool-Down (bottom left)

Make a T-Chart.

Label the chart “Happy Things” and “Happy Choices”.

Brainstorm objects, events, and other things that make you happy for the “Happy Things” column.

Brainstorm choices that a person can make that will make him/her happy in the “Happy Choices” column.

Draw lines between the things and choices that match.

Allusion Notes (right side set up)

Character/Concept

Record the name/term here from the top of the slide

Allusion to

Record the historical allusion here.

Bernard Marx is an allusion to

Karl Marx, founder of Marxism, Socialism

Lenina Crowne is an allusion to

Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Russian revolution and founder of the Communist party

Benito Hoover is an allusion to

Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy

Herbert Hoover, Depression-era president of America

Malthusian belt, Malthusian Drill are allusions to

Thomas Malthus, political economist and early proponent of birth control for population regulation

Conditioning and Neo-Pavlovian are allusions to

Ivan Pavlov, scientist who conducted conditioning experiments (Pavlov’s dogs)

Ford is an allusion to

Henry Ford, creator of the Model T and the modern assembly line

George Bernard Shaw is an allusion to

George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and socialist

Freud is an allusion to

Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist and found of psychoanalysis

Helmholtz Watson is an allusion to

John B. Watson, American psychologist and behaviorist

Mustapha Mond is an allusion to

Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey

Mond is an allusion to

Monde – “world” or “people” in French

Brave New World is an allusion to

From Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda says:

“O, wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,

That has such people in’t!”

Image Bibliography

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Image Bibliography continued

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