Welcome to the monkey house lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Lesson 1

Listen - Read - Write

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

The next couple of slides:

Click on the correct answer

Who is trying to control overpopulation in "Welcome to the Monkey House?"

1. Restaurants
2. The government.
3. China
4. Concerned citizens.

What do ethical birth control pills do?

1. Prevent pregnancy
2. Decrease desire for sex
3. Make people physically sick
4. Nothing, they are fake

What does the Sheriff warn Nancy about Billy the Poet?

1. That he wears a mask.
2. That he has been stealing money.
3. That he has been attacking hostesses.
4. That he has been courting hostesses.

What does Billy the Poet send Nancy?

1. A dozen roses.
2. A long letter.
3. A love poem.
4. A dirty poem.

Who ends up being Billy the Poet?

1. A sheriff
2. A young boy
3. A mailman
4. A volunteer

In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is the Kennedy Compound?

1. A hotel
2. Ruins
3. A museum
4. A suicide center

How does Billy the Poet disguise himself from Nancy?

1. With a trench coat
2. With a rubber mask
3. With a ski mask
4. With glasses and a wig

How does Billy the Poet put Nancy to sleep?

1. With alcohol.
2. With a boring story
3. With truth serum
4. With sleeping pills

At the end of "Welcome to the Monkey House," what poem does Billy want Nancy to read?

1. One about roses.
2. A new one he just wrote.
3. One his grandfather wrote.
4. Something by Shakespeare.

What does Billy give Nancy with "Welcome to the Monkey House" written on it?

1. A newspaper.
2. Birth control pills
3. His resume.
4. A card.

On the next slide: 

write down some similarities and differences between the 2 stories you've read

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

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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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

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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.

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

Click for context explanation

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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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.

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

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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