11Honors
All entering grade 11 Honors students will read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
"Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming and media--has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity."
Subjects: Dystopias, Religion, Science fiction, Collectivism, Far future, Genetic engineering, Passivity (Psychology), Totalitarianism
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
"A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit."
Subjects: Books, Censorship, Dystopias, Fires, Freedom, Reading, Science fiction, Resistance movements
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