Read to page 68 of Fahrenheit 451
500 words on your personal dystopia (please bring a printed paper copy to class):
- Choose an issue that you think is a problem today. Exaggerate it and create your own dystopian society. How does this society function? How did their thinking change? How do “they” control people’s thinking?
Read "Doing Nothing is Something" by Anna Quindlen
Choose a quotation from "Doing Nothing is Something" that you think is trying to persuade you to do/think something. Tell us whether or not it is effective and why. Post in the analysis section.
Vocabulary: hiatus, deficit, prestigious, contemptuous, laudable
No comments:
Post a Comment