Lesson Recap: Participles
Bring advanced tools into your writing.
H/W - Begin your outline.
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou
Okay, I will admit that I was fooled at first, and I got REALLY ticked off and felt strong feelings against it. However, I did know that it was way more than a coincidence that one teacher leaked an email, telling the 7th graders that they were going to get stalked by the school. Minding this, it triggered some creative writing from me. I think that you should do this next year once or twice to the new 7th graders
ReplyDeleteI LOVED how you tried to play a trick on us, it made today's class really fun. However, I had my suspicions from the moment you were smiling way more than you usually do in the beginning of class, and then you tried to cover it up. When you got excited after we started using books, I realized that it was all a hoax (added to the fact that there wasn't a signature.) I realize now that in the very beginning of the Hunger Games, when Gale wanted to run away, it wasn't just to escape the Hunger Games. It was also to get away from a life where they were being controlled, and every single move they made was watched by the Capitol. When there were finally uprisings, it was because people could not longer take the restriction. It is human nature to do what people tell you specifically not to do. And usually, more people start to stand up for their rights once the first person has. Overall, I think today's class really helped get us into Dystopian, (even though we figured out it was a hoax.)
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that you noticed that many dystopian characters begin as conformists, but human nature ultimately becomes an aspect that cannot be controlled despite the restrictions placed upon people. Does this mean the creation of an utopian society is ultimately impossible?
ReplyDeleteYes. I believe that the idea of a "utopia" is different to everyone. Yes, there will be similarities, but nothing can be perfect to everyone. The word 'utopia' comes from a Greek word that translates to 'no place'. This in itself means that if a utopia could exist, it would be very hard to make a place a utopia. In fact, the definition of utopia is an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect. The question is, perfect to who? Everyone has a different idea of perfect; everyone wants to do something different. You can't possibly have a world where everything is perfect to everyone, which is exactly what a utopia is. If you think about it, utopia and dystopia are exactly the same. The only difference is that in dystopia, people know there are things they should know, or things that are wrong. It's kind of like a scale between a bad life and dystopia. As you progress from the 'bad life' stage to the center, the quality of life goes up. But after it reaches a certain point, it starts to go back down. The point right before the quality starts declining is what we could call a utopia. But like I said before, there will always be unhappy people. In other words, utopia = nothing.
ReplyDeleteTodays class was really fun! I liked how you connected dystopian to our lives and how it raised our level of concern another notch. On a more serious note surveillance really does exist in life and we live in the age of technology and surveillance. Just like the Edward Snowden quote even if we have nothing to hide that does not mean that we should allow ourselves to live in a world of glass where everything we do is monitored. Besides if the government or schools is just compiling all of this data somewhere how easy is it to get hacked. If it got hacked we could be compromising personal information. I know that not in every country are their first amendment rights like the US,but it's sort of like a double edged sword. If we have total privacy certain things could happen that could be negative. On the other side if we had lots of surveillance their would be consequences. It just depends on what we as a society are able to take.
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