11.06 - Harrison Bergeron (short story) vs 2081 (short film)

At the beginning of class today, everyone was working in small groups looking at sets of roots/prefixes from unit one and identifying words that make use of the roots and prefixes in that set. Each group had ten minutes to identify as many words as they could. These were then shared out with the class. The list of words generated is included below.

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We then returned to working with the short story "Harrison Bergeron." Today, we are comparing the short story to a short film adaptation of the story called "2081" (which is the year in which the story is set).  In preparing to compare the stories, we summarized the plot outline which people took note of yesterday on a comparison sheet. 

We then watched the first half of "2081" with everyone taking notes on the exposition, inciting incident, and rising action. We will finish watching the film tomorrow and complete our notes on the rising action, climax, and falling action/resolution/denouement.

Homework:

Make sure your notes for the plot outline of "2081" are complete so far.

Study the unit 1 roots and prefixes for our quiz on Friday.