Warm-Up: Free Will vs. Determinism

Free Will = the ability to make unrestrained choices

Determinism = the idea that we are restricted to one, unchanging path determined by pre-conditions (EX: child born into a poor family, will live a poor life).

Directions: Read the following quote from Chapter 1 and answer the questions below. “We were born with a curse. It has always driven us to thoughts

which are forbidden. It has always given us wishes which men may not wish. We know that we are evil, but there is no will in us and no power to resist it” (18).

Does this quote said by Equality 7-2521 represent free will or determinism? Explain why and use textual evidence.

THEME ALERT!!!

Examining Power Structures: Are you…Determined or Free?

Do you know “The Pledge of Allegiance”?

Recite it quietly to yourself or in your head.

Have you ever stopped to think about the words? What they mean? What about the awkwardness/artificiality/unnaturalness of us all standing and repeating it without thinking every morning? Have you ever asked yourself why we do this?

Write down in your warm-ups section why YOU think we are required to say “The Pledge of Allegiance” every morning of your public school education.

Power Structures in Anthem

“‘We are one in all and all in one.

There are no men but only the great WE,

One, indivisible and forever’” (19).

What does this quote remind you of?

Where is it found in Equality’s home?

What other forms of control do we see in Anthem?

Analyzing Syntax in Anthem

THEME: The Collective vs. The Individual

Rand is asking us to re-think our definition of the word “One” and the word “We.”

For example, “We are one in all and all in one” (19).

Think of the syntax (word order) in that line. What do you notice?

How does Rand use this writing style to represent power structures in Anthem?

Homework Chapters 2 and 3 1x1x1 (1 quote, 1 question, 1

comment) for each chapter Due Monday.

Ticket of the Door:

Answer one neighbor’s 1 question and sign your name only for Chapter 1.

Place 1 x 1 x 1 for Chapter 1 ONLY in the box on your way out the door.

Warm-Up: Power Structures

Consider the many ways the State controls its subjects, like Equality 7-2521.

What connections can you make between these forms of control and those from The Hunger Games?

Draw a Venn Diagram comparing “the State” and “the Capitol.”

Free Will vs. Determinism

In what ways do the protagonists from The Hunger Games and Anthem defy the oppressive systems they live in?

What allows Katniss and Equality 7-2521 to overcome the controlling Capitol and State?

Can you see an authorial message? Or social commentary?

Homework Chapters 4 and 5 1x1x1 (1 quote, 1 question, 1

comment) for each chapter Due Tuesday.

Ticket of the Door:

Answer one neighbor’s 1 question and sign your name only for Chapter 2.

Place 1 x 1 x 1 for Chapter 2 ONLY in the box on your way out the door.

Warm-Up: Definitions – Theme #3

Themes so far: Free Will vs. Determinism Collective vs. Individual

New Theme: Ignorance vs. Enlightenment

Ignorance = lacking information, clueless

Enlightenment = learning, awareness to new information

ANSWER: In what ways does Equality or “The Unconquered” defy the oppressive system he lives in?

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Homework Chapter 10-12 1x1x1 (1 quote, 1 question, 1

comment) for each chapter Due Tuesday.

Warm-Up: Anthem Re-read page 80 (end of Chapter 8) in Anthem.

What is symbolic about Equality 7-2521 seeing his reflection for the first time? What themes can you connect this with? Individual vs. Collective Free Will vs. Determinism Ignorance vs. Enlightenment

What comments can you make about his development as a character?

Warm-Up: Definitions – Theme #3

Themes so far: Free Will vs. Determinism Collective vs. Individual

New Theme: Ignorance vs. Enlightenment

Ignorance = lacking information, clueless

Enlightenment = learning, awareness to new information

ANSWER: In what ways does Equality or “The Unconquered” defy the oppressive system he lives in?

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Ignorance vs. Enlightenment

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave