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Lesson 1
Listen - Read - Write

Slide 1 - Diapositive

To do
  1. Go through the slides
  2. Read the text on the slides
  3. Click on the audio to listen to the accompanying explanation.
  4. Write down answers to questions in your digital portfolio or Short story Google docs.
  5. Upload your answers to classroom before our next lesson

Slide 2 - Diapositive

The next couple of slides:
Click on the correct answer

Slide 3 - Diapositive

Who is trying to control overpopulation in "Welcome to the Monkey House?"
A
Restaurants
B
The government.
C
China
D
Concerned citizens.

Slide 4 - Quiz

What do ethical birth control pills do?
A
Prevent pregnancy
B
Decrease desire for sex
C
Make people physically sick
D
Nothing, they are fake

Slide 5 - Quiz

What does the Sheriff warn Nancy about Billy the Poet?
A
That he wears a mask.
B
That he has been stealing money.
C
That he has been attacking hostesses.
D
That he has been courting hostesses.

Slide 6 - Quiz

What does Billy the Poet send Nancy?
A
A dozen roses.
B
A long letter.
C
A love poem.
D
A dirty poem.

Slide 7 - Quiz

Who ends up being Billy the Poet?
A
A sheriff
B
A young boy
C
A mailman
D
A volunteer

Slide 8 - Quiz

In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is the Kennedy Compound?
A
A hotel
B
Ruins
C
A museum
D
A suicide center

Slide 9 - Quiz

How does Billy the Poet disguise himself from Nancy?
A
With a trench coat
B
With a rubber mask
C
With a ski mask
D
With glasses and a wig

Slide 10 - Quiz

How does Billy the Poet put Nancy to sleep?
A
With alcohol.
B
With a boring story
C
With truth serum
D
With sleeping pills

Slide 11 - Quiz

At the end of "Welcome to the Monkey House," what poem does Billy want Nancy to read?
A
One about roses.
B
A new one he just wrote.
C
One his grandfather wrote.
D
Something by Shakespeare.

Slide 12 - Quiz

What does Billy give Nancy with "Welcome to the Monkey House" written on it?
A
A newspaper.
B
Birth control pills
C
His resume.
D
A card.

Slide 13 - Quiz

On the next slide: 
write down some similarities and differences between the 2 stories you've read

Slide 14 - Diapositive

Similarities and differences between Harrison Bergeron & Welcome to the Monkey House?

Slide 15 - Carte mentale

Playboy Magazine


Welcome to the Monkey House
Published in Playboy magazine in 1968
On the brink of the sexual revolution in the US
Rejection of puritanical views on sex


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Slide 16 - Diapositive

Remember ->
Write the plot summary in your Learner Portfolio/Short story document.
(number 2 "conflict" is not usually written in a plot line, but it is helpful to write it down)
Extra help with the plot
https://tutors.com/lesson/plot-diagram-definition-elements-examples
click for explanation

Slide 17 - Diapositive

HB
  • Set in future US
  • Narrator presents future as positive, yet is terrifying.
  • Style: journalistic, dark humour, imagery etc.
  • Circular structure: no hope

WTTMH
  • Set in future US
  • More multi-faceted look at the future.
  • Style: journalistic, dark humour, imagery etc.
  • Ends with the hope that the Nothingheads may rebel.

Slide 18 - Diapositive

Context: Welcome to the Monkey House

Puritans: England 16th+17th centuries
Extreme religious morality
Ideal of “purity”
Emigration to “New World” → first settlers of the US (Pilgrims)
Settled in New England

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Slide 19 - Diapositive

Puritanical Social Standards in American Culture

Biblical standards = social ideals
Sober, hard-working, responsible
Self-control to avoid sinful behaviour.
Rejection of pleasure: drugs and sex
Culture of intolerance
Return (revert) back to biblical times

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Slide 20 - Diapositive

What is narrative voice again?

Every work of fiction has a voice - a means through which a story is told.
This is the author’s style.

Slide 21 - Diapositive

First Person

Can be frank and including or can create its own secrets
Depends on whether we feel we can ‘trust’ the narrator.

Third Person

Often felt to be much less subjective and emotive, but sometimes it is deceptive.
There may be a very descriptive style, an undertone of irony or a great absence of detail

Slide 22 - Diapositive

You have read the story:
Determine: and then write down:
Themes 
Narration & point of view
the type of conflict (plot)
Setting.
Show this through examples!

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Slide 23 - Diapositive