It's late, so I'll be quick.
Today we spent a good amount of time prepping for our presentations that will begin next Monday. Since you have the extra weekend days to perfect your presentations, I'm expecting insightfully prepared and passionately shared analyses from every one of you. Keep checking out the A expectations on that rubric to remind yourselves what you need to accomplish.
Happy HB! Tomorrow will be a "Harrison Bergeron" day! All Harrison. All hour. I know, I can't wait either. We'll be looking at Vonnegut's views and purpose. "Harrison"'s vocabulary and theme. Examples of irony and symbolism. A couple other surprises and these quotes:
"If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." Aristotle
"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads to conformity and then to despotism." Barry Goldwater
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honore de Balzac
Here's a thought. At the end of class tomorrow, say the last fifteen minutes, we might be doing an in class writing asking you to discuss one of those three quotes using "Harrison Bergeron" as your supporting text.
Gotta fly. Be good. See you tomorrow.
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