09.06 - Utopias through Commandments

To start today's class, everyone was asked to consider the following list of rules:

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This list of rules (from the movie Fight Club) was designed to make the fight club into an ideal community. Everyone was asked to respond to the following question in their writing journal:

What can you tell about the values of this organization based on its rules?

After everyone had a chance to respond to this question, we discussed everyone's answers.

Next, I handed out a commandment comparison sheet and gave students a list of commandments/rules. All of these rules/commandments were designed for a group of people with the idea that following these rules would help to make life better. With this in mind, students were asked to use the comparison sheet to evaluate and compare these lists. 

If you are making this assignment up, feel free to choose any two lists.

After everyone had compared their lists, we reviewed the lists in general and identified what the original name of the list was.

Homework:

Read in Animal Farm according to our class schedule (see below).

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