Assignments

DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT

Discussion Board

1. In fewer than 160 characters, write your definition of what makes us individuals on Wall Wisher. Be sure to put your first initial and last name and remember that counts as characters. Go to Wall Wisher [|here] .

Contemporary Artifact - Video

2. Contemporary Connection (What is happening in the present?)

Watch the video clip from the TV reality show "The Voice" As you watch it and you might want to watch it more than once, consider the differences between the two vocalists and then go to the discussion page and make your comments on The Voice Video. Access the video [|here.]

Historical Artifact - Primary Resource -Federal Act

3. Historical Connection (How has the future already happened?)

Read the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. On this site, you will see the actual handwritten copy, which is a primary source. To see a cleaner copy when you read the typed text, click on the printer copy.To access the document click [|here] .

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Syncopate; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Historical Artifact - Primary Resource -Political Cartoon

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Look at the following two links of political cartoons about the Chinese Exclusion Act paying close attention to the characters in the cartoons and how they are portrayed. Think critically - what's happening? Click on High Resolution to see a larger picture where you can better see more details.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To access the Chinese Exclusion Act click <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|here.]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To access the first cartoon click <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|here.]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To access the second cartoon click <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|here.]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a new document. Copy and paste the Cartoon Analysis Worksheet two times onto the newly created document. Now answer the questions for each cartoon. To access the Cartoon Analysis Worksheet click <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|here.]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Syncopate; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WRITING CONNECTION

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Reflective Writing. Choose one of the following questions to answer in 1 1/2 typed pages following MLA format. Make sure to refer to all four artifacts in your response. Create a new document on which to write your response.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Possible Open Response and/or Essay questions:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What would a dystopic day look like in today’s environment for you personally? Explain in detail. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Examine your life here in America on a typical day in six years. Is it dystopic? Why? / Why not? /  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How would it play out? What happens to you and to others on that day? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of what makes life dystopic? What makes life utopic? Is looking at life in this way real or fictional?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is dystopic literature more fictional or like real life to you? Give reasons / examples for why you believe as you do.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which group in today’s society---other than your ownlives in a distopic setting? Give examples and reasons for your response.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you were Chinese when the Exclusion Act was passed, what would you have in common with any group you can think of in America today? What would be different?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What political cartoon can you find that exists in today’s American media that resembles the two political cartoons in our lesson? How is your found political cartoon like the two cartoons in our lesson? Tell how they are similar and/or different.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As two women performers, tell how Beverly MecClellan and Christine Aguilera are the similar as well as different. Be sure to note aspects that go beyond physical appearance, and include reasons for your response.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Create a video that expresses your indiviuality. To access the rubric click <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|here.]