Introduction
Miss Rishell
Brit Lit 12
We are preparing to read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. There is a lot of information that you will need to know to fully understand the references made in the novel. Complete this Webquest to better understand what we will read throughout this unit.
Task
1. Visit Bartleby.com and read lines 174-205 of The Tempest. http://www.bartleby.com/70/1151.html
Copy V.1.202-205 from The Tempest.
2. Visit the Banned Book Awareness site. http://world.edu/worldedu_posts/banned-books-awareness-brave-world/
What have been some of the grounds for banning the novel?
The Psychology Behind Brave New World
3. Who was Ivan Pavlov and how did he end up experimenting on salivating dogs?
4. Behavioral Psychology and John Watson’s research: explain how his experiment with Little Albert is similar to how the Delta children are conditioned to hate books and flowers in Chapter 2.
5. BF Skinner:
a. Explain how BF Skinner developed the ideas of “operant behavior” and “shaping behavior” with pigeons.
b. What similarities did Skinner notice between how children learn to speak and his experiments with pigeons?
c. What is your opinion on Skinner's experiments using “punishment” and “reward?”
d. Do you agree that “everything we do and are is shaped by our experience with punishment and reward?” Why/not?
6. Henry Ford http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989769,00.html
a. How did Ford’s modest agrarian (farming) background influence the type of car he decided to make?
b. How did Ford react to backers who wanted him to do things their way (make a car for the rich)?
c. Why was Ford interested in mass consumption?
d. What is Ford’s connection with the interstate highway system? Why?
e. According to Iacocca, how is Ford responsible for creating a middle class in America?
f. Why did Ford raise his workers’ pay?
g. In what ways did Ford take care of his workers like a father (paternalism)?
Logical fallacies. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/659/03/
7. Define the term “fallacy."
8. Pick three fallacies that interest you and come up with your own example for each. Explain why each example fits the fallacy
Define the following vocabulary:
9. Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Delta/Epsilon -
10. lupus -
11. typhoid -
12. sleeping sickness -
13. anemia -