Thursday, April 6, 2017

Thursday, April 6 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: “The Lottery”: Respond to this quote in your writer’s notebook, after discussing it with your group: “Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.” –Shirley Jackson
*Discuss Schoology posts
*Post-Modern Review (look at your notes, add if necessary)
*Literary Concept: Dystopia
*Somewhere in Notes: paraphrase the definition on the previous slide
*Writer’s Notebook: Why would dystopias be a literary concept often used in the Post-Modern era?
*Was “The Lottery” a dystopia? What examples of dystopia can you think of?
*“Harrison Bergeron”
*Annotations/Close read: dystopian characteristics, Post-Modern characteristics, society and individual
*Questions on “Harrison Bergeron” in to me

*If you finish, reading time (or blogging) for BAL (at any point when you are finished and we haven’t moved on)

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