Cores 1-2:
- Read the Remix Culture articles:
- Debate the merits of Mashups and Remixes as art forms and workable solutions in pro- and anti- groups.
Core 3:
- Fill out the Outsiders Anticipation Guide.
- Discuss personal connections to the themes of the novel.
- What do you know about the 50’s?
Core 4:
- Do you think that authors paint a realistic vision of the future? One they would like to see happen? Or, one they would never like to see happen? Why?
- Which of the following have come to pass, and which of the following will/should never come to pass?
- Looking Backward:
- People taking one year off to serve one another before they get their real jobs.
- Having a solution for shopping: Checking things off of a list and having them delivered to you immediately.
- 1984:
- A government that wants us to fear one another.
- A “Big Brother” that is always watching you.
- Mind control through the use of language.
- Power concentrated in the hands of only a few people.
- Brave New World:
- Genetically Engineering Human Beings
- Strict Classes of people based upon intelligence capacity.
- Compulsory (you have to do it) contreception
- Player Piano:
- The automation of nearly every job so that there is very little left for humans to do.
- The Giver:
- Centrally stored memories.
- A closed off society.
- Fahrenheit 451:
- Extreme censorship.
- We:
- The importance of logic above all else.
- Utopia:
- Each Man or Woman working for only what they need.
- Devaluing money (money and gold mean nothing to these people).
- Paying other people to fight wars for you.
- Lord of the Flies:
- A life without supervision.
- Anthem:
- A complete dependence on Group-Thinking.
- True equality for all citizens (without the handicapping of Harrison Bergeron).
- Looking Backward:
- Debate the merits of each theme from the ten books mentioned.
