April 18th

1. Practice EOC Test. Today we are going through the practice EOC test in pairs.

• Practice test found here: EOC Practice Test
• You will be paired up to work on this test. 
• Take out a piece of paper between the two of you. 
• Together, you will be taking the test, but submitting one answer sheet. 
• On the paper, together, you will be jotting down what you notice about each question. This can be: what content is being asked about? What do you notice about the wording? What literary/language terms/jargon do you notice? What type of questions do you see? Bloom's taxonomy/or educational terms do you notice? YOU WILL TURN THIS IN to Mrs. Cole. 

For FRIDAY:
1. Select ONE characteristic that you feel is exemplified in the first chapters of Brave New World. Open Google Classroom and submit in comments you characteristic and your explanation of why you feel it is the most prominent with evidence to back up your selection.

2. Be through Chapter 6 in Brave New World. 

Chapters 4-6
1. What does the narrator suggest is the source of Bernard’s self-consciousness and dissatisfaction with society? Describe Bernard’s friend Helmholtz. How are Helmholtz’s self-consciousness and dissatisfaction with society different from Bernard’s?
2. What is the function of the Solidarity Service? Discuss the various ways in which this purpose is accomplished (the various facets of the Service). Why do you think most of the attendees react so strongly to the Service? How does Bernard react, and why? What aspects of Christianity do you recognize in the Service, and why would these things have been preserved?
3. What do you think Bernard means when he speaks of wanting to be “free to be happy in some other way”? What does he mean when he says that he wants to “try the effect of arresting [his] impulses,” and how does that idea apply to his relationship with Lenina? What does he mean when he says that he wants to be an adult all the time—how are the people of this society “infants where feeling and desire are concerned”? What does Lenina’s reaction to Bernard’s unhappiness about their date show about her? (Refer to these lines near the end of Part 1: “Lenina felt all her triumph suddenly evaporate. Perhaps he had found her too plump, after all.”)
4. Why is talking about the “remote past” (probably anything more than a year before) a taboo?What do you think drives the Director to unconsciously violate this taboo? What do Bernard’s initial reaction to being reprimanded, his bragging to Helmholtz, and his reaction upon learning of his impending transfer to Iceland (Part 3) show about his character?
5. Why do you think the Reservations are maintained? What is shown about the people of this society by their attitude toward and treatment of the “savages”?

6. How does the novel suggest that the average person of this society would react to being exposed to images of nature such as the ocean and the night sky (recall Lenina’s reaction when Bernard makes her look at the ocean)? Why do you think they would react this way?