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Monday, September 9, 2013

9.09 - Utopia in Action

We started today's class with the following writing activity to be completed in everyone's individual writing journals:

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After everyone had a chance to write their seven commandments, we began an activity that would show what those commandments would look like in action in the utopian world for which they were designed. Specific details for this writing task were:

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In class, I clarified that the list does not have to be read nor each item explored in the story. It just has to appear in full in the story in some way (as a poster, written on a coffee cup, tattooed on someone's arm, printed on paper leaflets that are dropped over a city from a helicopter, etc.)

Everyone had the rest of the period to work on this story.
The story should be at least one full page in a writing journal. Stories can definitely be longer.


Homework:

If you did not finish your utopian story in class, do so for homework.

Continue to read Animal Farm according to the class schedule.

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