Happiness in Brave New World
In this unit, we study Huxley's famous dystopian novel through a personalized learning approach. Students set their own goals and work to achieve them through various choices of activities including discussion, assignments, projects, and assessments. Quinn-led discussion and the supplemental film, Lego Movie, relied upon student inquiry-based questions and resulted in conversations about current events, leaders from around the world, historical events, literary allusions, astronomy, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, and Margaret Atwood's essays about Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and Brave New World. Once, some students were even lucky enough to meet Margaret Atwood through a local city-wide literary festival.
In this unit, we study Huxley's famous dystopian novel through a personalized learning approach. Students set their own goals and work to achieve them through various choices of activities including discussion, assignments, projects, and assessments. Quinn-led discussion and the supplemental film, Lego Movie, relied upon student inquiry-based questions and resulted in conversations about current events, leaders from around the world, historical events, literary allusions, astronomy, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, and Margaret Atwood's essays about Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and Brave New World. Once, some students were even lucky enough to meet Margaret Atwood through a local city-wide literary festival.