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Heroism, Humanism & Hijinks: Literature in Action - Week 12, Period 5
Once the class was settled, Thursday launched straight into the topic. "Brave New World presents a future where the masses are placated by a drug called soma, where Henry Ford's mass production assembly line elevated him to god-like status and where literature is suppressed because it brings out too many emotions.
Literature has been feared in the past in both fiction, such as in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and in real life incidents such as bannings throughout the world and the Nazi book burning. As I understand it, the War with the Nazis in this timeline finished much earlier than in my own. I can assure you, it could have been - and was - much worse. Many works were lost forever.
For today's lesson you all have the power to change the world for the better. What drastic measures would you take to make people happy and less aggressive toward one another? What would you take away to calm people down? On the other hand, if there could only be one book left in the public world so that all other literature was suppressed in the name of a better future, what would you want to keep around?"
At the end of the class, Thursday addressed them all again. "Don't forget your final project is coming up. Next week is Dickens, so if you haven't started reading, start now. The week after we'll review and I've pushed the final project back to exam week. It won't take longer than the normal class period."
Literature has been feared in the past in both fiction, such as in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and in real life incidents such as bannings throughout the world and the Nazi book burning. As I understand it, the War with the Nazis in this timeline finished much earlier than in my own. I can assure you, it could have been - and was - much worse. Many works were lost forever.
For today's lesson you all have the power to change the world for the better. What drastic measures would you take to make people happy and less aggressive toward one another? What would you take away to calm people down? On the other hand, if there could only be one book left in the public world so that all other literature was suppressed in the name of a better future, what would you want to keep around?"
At the end of the class, Thursday addressed them all again. "Don't forget your final project is coming up. Next week is Dickens, so if you haven't started reading, start now. The week after we'll review and I've pushed the final project back to exam week. It won't take longer than the normal class period."
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And, hmm, suggestions...
The Handmaid's Tale
The Crucible
The Great Gatsby
Those are just off the top of my head and I'm honestly not 100% sure what you have and haven't covered this semester.
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*has traumatic memories of having to write a paper on The Crucible*
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It'll be a basic interactive "choose your own adventure" type thing where the kids will put what they've learned into action and be Jurisfiction agents for the day. Pretty much what will happen is that I'll put a post up with ridiculous OCD and you guys can play with a bunch of NPCs and try to solve the puzzle of setting a messed up book back on course.
I'll explain it in further detail over the next two weeks so when it comes around it'll be crystal clear.
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Little Women
Frankenstein
The Three Musketeers
The Metamorphosis
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*totally does not have inordinate fondness for eating Irish babies, honestly*
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