Extra Credit: Read Chapters Six and Seven and answer the following questions for 100 Extra Credit points.

You must email these answers to me before May 25th:

Chapters Six and Seven: Marriage and the Proles
These two chapters introduce the reader to the role of love and marriage in the party and to the role of the proles in Oceania society. Read the chapters carefully and answer the following questions in the Free Response box below.
1. What is the purpose of marriage in Oceania?
2. What happened to Winston’s marriage?
3. How does Winston view the proles?
4. How are the proles controlled by the government?
5. Why is it important for the Party to have a class of proles? What functions do they serve?
6. Would you want to be a prole or a member of the outer party?
7. What lies/half-truths does the Party teach about the Proles in history books?
8. What is the story of Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford?
9. Why is this story so meaningful for Winston?
10. What is Winston’s unanswered question?

EXTRA CREDIT!!!! Create your own History: 100 points!! Must be submitted by May 25th

“Creating New History”

For this Extra Credit assignment, you will re-write a period in history. In the novel 1984, “history is continuously rewritten.” Part of Winston’s job is rewriting history, changing facts, dates, actions, even people. Though it can be debated if the past can be forgotten, can history be rewritten? Should it be?

First, select an important historical event: What exactly happened? What changed? What consequences came from it? What would the world be like today if this change had occurred?
Choose a piece of history that is either important to the community, the nation, or the world. Meaning, it cannot be a personal history, this period of time must have had a major impact on other people. For example, what would the world be like today if the Louisiana Purchase was never purchased? Or JFK was never assassinated? ONCE AN EVENT HAS BEEN SELECTED NO ELSE CAN SELECT THAT TOPIC.

Second, write your own “New History”: How you present your history and/or event is entirely up to you. You must present your ideas in a creative manner. You can present your “new history” by creating a text book page that includes pictures, or describe the facts and information about the event in history or a magazine or newspaper article. Have another idea? Go for it!
Have fun! Be creative! You have the power to alter the history of the world. Post your article here as a comment and email me your creation!

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Don Quixote Quotes in English and Spanish

All that glisters is not gold.
Topic: Appearance
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)

The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
Topic: Authorship
Source: Don Quixote (V, 16)

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]
Topic: Beauty
Source: Don Quixote (II, 6)

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Topic: Birds
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LXXIV)

Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
Topic: Cards
Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)

All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
Topic: Cleanliness
Source: Don Quixote (I, 20)

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Topic: Companionship
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXIII), quoted in

Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]
Topic: Criticism
Source: Don Quixote (II, 67)


I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Topic: Drinking
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)

All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]
Topic: Eating
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 13)
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 47)

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Topic: Eating
Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXIV)

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
Topic: Education
Source: Don Quixote (II, 10)
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se aprende el hacerle.]
Topic: Evil
Source: Coloquio de los Perros
He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
Topic: Faces
Source: Don Quixote (bk. II, pt. I, ch. IV)
Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
Topic: Fear
Source: Don Quixote (III, 6)
I have other fish to fry.
Topic: Fish
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXV)

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
Topic: Flies
Source: Don Quixote (II, 43)

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la discrecion.]
Topic: Folly
Source: Don Quixote (II, 13)

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IV)

Job Losses Hint at Vast Remaking of Economy

As government data revealed that 651,000 more jobs disappeared in February, a sense took hold that growing joblessness may reflect a wrenching restructuring of the American economy.

The unemployment rate surged to 8.1 percent, from 7.6 percent in January, its highest level in a quarter-century. In key industries — manufacturing, financial services and retail — layoffs have accelerated so quickly in recent months as to suggest that many companies are abandoning whole areas of business.

“These jobs aren’t coming back,” said John E. Silvia, chief economist at Wachovia in Charlotte, N.C. “A lot of production either isn’t going to happen at all, or it’s going to happen somewhere other than the United States. There are going to be fewer stores, fewer factories, fewer financial services operations. Firms are making strategic decisions that they don’t want to be in their businesses.”

This dynamic has proved true in past recessions as well, with fading industries pushed to the brink during downturns before others emerged to create jobs when economic growth inevitably resumed. But with job losses so enormous over such a short period of time, some economists argue that the latest crisis challenges the traditional American response to hard times.

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