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Guided Free-Write

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Guided Free-Write. Write your immediate reaction to the story “Harrison Bergeron.” Consider the following questions: What does the story mean? What does it make you think about our society today?. Class Discussion. Is it possible to make everyone equal?

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  1. Guided Free-Write • Write your immediate reaction to the story “Harrison Bergeron.” • Consider the following questions: • What does the story mean? • What does it make you think about our society today?

  2. Class Discussion • Is it possible to make everyone equal? • Would life be better if we were all the same? • How does society pressure us to be the same? • How does sameness benefit us? Hurt us? • How do we assert our individuality? • How do we celebrate differences? • Can we do more? What can we do?

  3. Answer theAim • How does “Harrison Bergeron” reflect our own society’s struggle for equality? How does it mirror our injustices?

  4. Utopia vs. Dystopia • Utopia • an imaginary and indefinitely remote place • a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions • an impractical scheme for social improvement • Dystopia • an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives • an anti-utopia

  5. Dystopia • Famous dystopian works of literature: • H.G. Wells’sThe Time Machine • William Golding’s Lord of the Flies • Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 • Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World • Lois Lowry’s The Giver • P.D. James’s The Children of Men • Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games • Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

  6. Video Clip • Stephen Colbert roasts then-President George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Press Correspondents’ Dinner • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FTF4Oz4dI&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

  7. Satire • Definition: a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn • Typically, by exaggerating the real-life vices/follies to an absurd degree • Often political • Synonym: lampoon • Related words: • Verb: satirize • Nouns: burlesque, caricature, parody, spoof

  8. Famous Satires • Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal • Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote • George Orwell’s Animal Farm • Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five • Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange • Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

  9. Class Discussion • How can comedy help us challenge unjust sociopolitical situations? • How does exaggerating an actual condition to an absurd degree convince people that the actual condition is absurd? • In what ways is “Harrison Bergeron” a satire?

  10. Work with a Partner • Look back through the story to find instances of real-life social injustice exaggerated to an absurd degree. Highlight/underline them. • Write a list of 3 such instances paired with their real-life counterparts. • Does the satirical situation make you change your perspective on the real one? If so, explain.

  11. Homework • Finish reading and annotating Book 1, Chapter 1 of 1984.