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 Greetings folks!

A reminder - Please finish your part 1 package over the break and finish reading part 1. I'll be collecting this soon after we return in January. Also, if you are away today, please send me your DEJ via email (many of you have already done this - it's a reminder for those who haven't sent it yet).

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 LIMERICKS!

Anapestic / Dactylic trimeter (lines 1, 2, and 5) (lax, lax, tense) - COMPREHEND

Anapestic / Dactylic dimeter (lines 3 and 4) (tense, lax lax) - ELEPHANT

The first line introduces the character. The 2nd lines characterizes him or her. Line 3 and 4 set up the punch line, and line 5 delivers the humour. Lines 3 and 4 are indented.

Example:

There was an odd fellow named Gus,
When travelling he made such a fuss.
    He was banned from the train,
    Not allowed on a plane,
And now travels only by bus.

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Compare and Contrast Strategies:

• Chunking

Normal Introduction. Thesis will declare the result of the comparison.

Each body paragraph focuses on each specific thing being compared. If you are comparing apple and oranges, you have a paragraph on apples and a paragraph on oranges as body paragraphs.

• Slicing

Normal Introduction. Thesis will declare the result of the comparison.

Each body paragraph focuses on a specific aspect being compared, and discusses both things being compared in the same paragraph. For examples, if you were comparing apples and oranges, you might spend one body paragraph comparing the nutritional value of both apples and oranges.

Consider the following topic:

Compare and Contrast:

1. Being rich, or living in poverty?
2. Remote learning or classroom learning?

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 For 1984, we'll start be examining how Orwell establishes setting. Give chapter 1 a read, and write out words that describe setting. Why did he use this word instead of a synonym? How have his diction choices influenced our understanding of the world he's created?

Vile

gritty

dulled

harsh

commanding

frowzy

nebulous

archaic

hostile

fuzzy

fruity 

cold

black terror

sickly

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• Despite the terrifying findings in Spurlock's documents-movie, people still eat McDonald's meals. Why do you think this is?
• As a business, what is the best way for McDonald’s to respond to the problems we learn about in the film? 

If you have finished one of these and had feedback from me, write an introduction for the following topics. You may refute them if you wish :) Use the writing guide:

1. Switching to renewable energy is more trouble than it's worth.
2. Covid has brought us closer together than farther apart.
3. Students should not be allowed to date until after graduation.

 Topics for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.

• Our Imagination as a vehicle for Complicity: As the narrator invites the audience to create an image of Omelas, we become complicit in the moral consequences of its greatest crime: the agreement to allow a child to continue suffering in order for everyone else to be happy. By reading this story, Le Guin pulls us in to its creation, generating consensus and understanding of our circumstances. Think about what this allegory represents. By imagining and co-creating this city of Omelas with Le Guin, do we share a responsibility for the suffering of the child in the basement?
• Coming of Age and the Loss of Innocence: All children between 8 and 12 learn about the child in the basement. At this discovery, the narrator states that everyone is disgusted and horrified at first. How might the contrast of childhood and adulthood (or at least puberty), be represented through the coming of age in Omelas? Why are youth the first ones to consider walking away?
• The utilitarian scapegoat. A child suffers in a basement somewhere in Omelas so that thousands of citizens can live in bliss and comfort. Evaluate the pleasures of Omelas' citizens in light of the suffering that this child must endure. Is the sacrifice of something precious a worthy trade-off for the pleasure and comfort of thousands?
• The absurd pleasures we desire. Many pleasurable behaviors described in Omelas come across as bizarre. Motifs such as nudity, music, drugs, and plenty of contradictions populate Le Guin's narrative. Why does Le Guin use such thoroughly exaggerated pleasures to allegorize our own? How do these pleasures echo the kinds of pleasures we pursue?

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 OMELAS!

1. How does Le Guin refute the concept of utopias and dystopias? How does the act of co-creating Omelas inform this response?
2. Why do the citizens of Omelas have to be made aware of the existence of the child in the basement?
3. What does The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas allegorize?
4. Who are the citizens of Omelas? The child in the basement?