Friday, February 7, 2014 Anthem: Chapter 1

1. Friday, February 7, 2014 Anthem: Chapter 1 Respond 2 of the 5 questions (listed below). Use no less than 3 sentences in your responses. 1- To help create setting, Ayn Rand uses color imagery. Find two examples in the chapter. What colors does the author use? What image is she trying to convey? 2- The first page of Anthem begins, “It is a sin to write this.” Using textual evidence, explain why Equality is committing a sin when he writes. 3- Why does Equality refer to himself as “we”? 4- Would you want to be friends with someone like Equality? Why or why not? 5- Ayn Rand wanted Equality 7-2521 to stand out from his brothers. Explain how she accomplished this by contrasting Equality 7-2521’s physical attributes to those of his fellow men.

2. Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Anthem: Chapter 2 • Define these terms found on pages 48 and 49. • Uncharted Forest – • Unmentionable Times – • Evil Ones – • Script Fire – • Great Rebirth – • Unspeakable Word –

3. Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Anthem: Chapter 2 • Define these terms found on pages 48 and 49. • Uncharted Forest – A forest which has no paths. The ancient trees guard the secrets within. Some say that ruins from the Unmentionable Times are hidden there. • Unmentionable Times – A time of great technology before the Great Rebirth. All the technology was lost to the world at some point in time. • Evil Ones – Men who fought in a war against others during the Unmentionable Times. They were conquered, and burned at the stake. • Script Fire – Also called the “Dawn of the Great Rebirth,” the Script Fire was the mass burning of all the texts of the Evil Ones, which held their words. The fires burned for three months across cities. • Great Rebirth – A time of reform that came across the world after the evil ones were killed and their scripts burnt. • Unspeakable Word – A word that used to be in the language of man, but was lost. Now, no one may speak or hear the word. Saying it is punishable by death.

4. Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Anthem: Chapters 3 & 4 • Respond to one of the questions below. • What does Equality discover in this chapter? How important is this discovery? Describe four or five ways in which it would help society and make life easier or more enjoyable. • What is the name that Liberty has given to Equality? Does this name fit? Why?

5. Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Anthem: Chapters 5 & 6 • Respond to one of the questions below. • Equality is suddenly interested in seeing his own image. Why now? What emotions is he feeling? • The old locks and lack of guards in the Palace of Corrective Detention indicate that prisoners have never tried to escape. According to the text, why not?

6. Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Anthem: Chapter 7 Respond the question below. Equality states that “We are doomed” but he does not feel doomed. How does Equality really feel once he is in the Uncharted Forest?

7. Thursday, February 20, 2014 Anthem: Chapters 8 & 9 • Respond to 1 of the 2 questions below. • Explain why Equality laughs when he remembers that he is “the Damned.” • Equality and Liberty are reunited in the Uncharted Forest. What is it that Equality says is the “bond” between them?

8. Friday, February 21, 2014 Anthem: Chapter 10 Describe the house and its contents in your own words. Explain why Liberty and Equality find it so strange and unique.

9. Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Anthem: Chapters 11 & 12 • Respond to 1of the questions below. • What does Equality now realize is the proper goal and purpose of his life? • What does Equality plan to do in the future?