Scribe - Monday, 1/8/15 - Alyssa Leiby

Scribe - Monday, January 8, 2015 (By: Alyssa Leiby)

• DOL 1
• Basic plot level understandings in 1984
• Discussion on Political Spectrum
• What kind of government is this class?
• Read 1984 (38-69)
• HW: read for tomorrow, fishbowl 1-69, 3 questions, DOL exercises and quiz

NOTE: We did not get to political cartoons today so bring them in tomorrow!

Grammar:

We diagrammed the following sentence. Try it on your own then check below. 

• neither of the boys ate their snacks
• Monday Notes
• neither - indefinite pronoun
• of - preposition
• the - article 
• boys - noun
• ate - action verb
• their - possessive pronoun
• snacks - noun
• Tuesday Notes
• neither - subject
• ate - verb
• snacks - direct object
• parenthesis around "of the boys" because it is a prepositional phrase
• boys - object of the preposition
• Wednesday Notes
• this is an independent clause because it can stand alone
• it is a simple sentence because there in only one independent clause
• Thursday Notes
• capitalize the "n" in neither
• place a period after the sentence
• Friday Notes
• sorry I can't put the diagram up here because I'm not sure how
• think about "subject" "verb" "what?" and then what modifies each word

QUIZ IS ONE SENTENCE TOMORROW

Basic Information on 1984

Characters

• Winston Smith
• Big Brother
• Goldstein
• Thought Police
• Sime (sorry if I spelled it wrong I can't read what she wrote :)
• O'Brien
• Parsons
• girl with red sash

Setting

• London
• East Asia
• Eurasia
• Oceania

Plot Elements (underscored lines mean I couldn't read the board and neither could others around me sorry guys)

• being watch - telescreen, helicopters look in, neighbors
• thought crime
• double think
• new speak
• purity
• party 
• W. S. writers in a diary
• Two Minutes of Hate
• Kids "spies"

Think:

What do you want your government to be able to do for you?

 

No government: what is best for everyone is better than what is best for every one person	Republic/ democracy: like London/Sweden- more out of our pocket book;	Republic/ democracy: elect representatives to vote for you; elect president	Totalitarianism:: total governmental control; dictatorship	Totalitarianism:
Communism: equality	Socialism: still some inequality: government helps make less equality	Capitalism: inequality; individual; competition; decision based	Facism: more inequality; value efficiency; more separation between winners and losers	Nazism: complete inequality; some aren't even allowed to compete- removed from life and competition

-political system and economic system should match

-Winner of WWII was somewhere between socialism and capitalism i.e. Britain and America

-Losers are communism, no government, facism, nazism, totalitarianism

* warning: as long as you have elections, and you elect your leaders giving up more control ot the government over economic decisions, you are eventually going to have a situation where they people you put in charge, are making decision that you don't like and you don't think is appropriate. (Hitler- made economic choices trying to save the country but eliminated other political parties and ended up as a dictator; he was elected to this position of power).

*BE VIGILANT  

-trust we have in our government today