---
title: "03.21.07"
date: 2007-03-21
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/03/21/032107/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 03.21.07

Cores 1-2:

- Read the Remix Culture articles:   [Mashups, Remixes and Copyright Law](http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00004239/)
- [Remix Culture: A rights nightmare](http://www.abc.net.au/catapult/indepth/s1645533.htm)
- [Issues surrounding re-use in Creative Commons Liscenses](http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focus-music_and_remixing/)

- 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).

- Debate the merits of each theme from the ten books mentioned.