Good Morning!!

Writing into the Day: Respond to the following

We can only know where we are going by
looking at where we have been.

Group Presentations
Use the next 10 minutes to prepare your group to present
your poster.
Think About:
Everyone participating
Organized flow between information
Presentation skills

Essay
Pick one character from Harrison Bergeron use the 7
Types of Characterization to analyze the differences in the
text and movie version of this person. Why did the movie
director change them?

New Mini-unit
Read a novella (short novel) called Anthem

By Ayn Rand (pronounced Ine Rand)

Immigrated to US from Russia in 1926

Most famous work is Atlas Shrugged

Died in 1982

Written in 1937

Cultural References

Simpsons Episode called A Streetcar Named Marge has an Ayn Rand school
for Tots that Maggie goes to.
Rock band Rush song 2112 Overture uses lines from Anthem

Ayn Rand
and
Anthem

Original PowerPoint by FWTeacher at

teacherspayteachers.com. Modified by Deb Salter, Ola
High School.

The truth is not for all men,

but only for those
who seek it.

Background
She was born in Russia in 1905
Age 6 taught herself to read
Age 9 decided to make writing fiction her lifes
work.
During teens, she witnessed the Kerensky and
Bolshevik Revolutions.
Her familys pharmacy was taken over by
Communists.
She visited America in 1926 and never went
back to Russia

Development of Her Writing

Due to life under Bolshevik rule, she is radically procapitalist and anti-Communist.
She worked in Hollywood for a few years, sold a
screenplay, and published her first novel, We the Living, in
1934. It is the most autobiographical of her works.
Other works include Anthem (1937), The Fountainhead
(1943), and Atlas Shrugged [1936] (considered by many to
be her finest work) as well as many others.
The Randian hero is one whose ability and independence
cause conflict within the masses but who perseveres
nevertheless to achieve his values. Rand views this as the
ideal.

Objectivism
The name of Rands philosophy
She states:
Reality exists as an objective absolutefacts are
facts, independent of mans feelings, wishes, hopes
or fears.
Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates
the material provided by mans senses) is mans
only means of perceiving reality, his only source of
knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic
means of survival.

Objectivism
Manevery manis an end in himself, not the
means to the ends of others. He must exist for
his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to
others nor sacrificing others to himself. The
pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his
own happiness is the highest moral purpose of
his life.
The ideal political-economic system is laissezfaire capitalism.

Dystopian/Anti-Utopian
Literature

This type of literature presents

the world as it should NOT be.
Collectivism is presented as the
worst possible society.

Collectivism
The subjugation of the individual to the group
whether to a race, class, or a state does not
matter. Collectivism holds that man must be
chained to a collective and collective thought
for the sake of what is called the common
good.
This is illustrated in Anthem in such quotes as:
We are one in all and all in one. There are no men
but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.

Individualism
Individualism regards manevery manas an
independent, sovereign entity who possesses
an inalienable right to his own life, a right
derived from his nature as a rational being.
Individualism holds that a civilized societycan
be achieved only on the basis of the recognition
of individual rightsand that a group, as such,
has no rights other than the individual rights of
its members.
I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of
their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I
am not a sacrifice on their alters I am a man.

Works Cited
Biography of Ayn Rand. 2008. Ayn Rand Institute. Accessed 2
December 2008 from http://aynrandeducation.com/
AboutAR.php?pagename=bio
Introduction of Objectivism. 1995-2008. The Ayn Rand Institute.
Accessed 2 December 2008 from http://www.aynrand.org/
site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro.

More on Rands
Philosophy
Objectivism rejects any belief in the
supernaturaland any claim that individuals
or groups create their own reality. Man is to
perceive reality-not create it.
Objectivism rejects mysticism (acceptance of
faith or feeling as a means of knowledge) and
skepticism (the claim that certainty or
knowledge is impossible).
Objectivism rejects any form of determinism,
the belief that man is a victim of forces beyond
his control (such as God, fate, genes, etc.).

Wednesday
Reading into the Day:
Read The Arms Race in your textbook pg 541

The Arms Race by Albert

Einstein
- Central Idea:
- Authors Purpose:
- Tone:
- Mood:
- Key Diction:
- E-P-L:

Notes on Symbolism
With a partner read and take notes on page 461

You get 10 Minutes

Golden Kite Silver Wind by Ray

Bradbury (536)
Page Number and
Line

Symbol

What it represents

Golden Kite Silver Wind by Ray Bradbury

(536)
- Central Idea:
- Authors Purpose:
- Tone:
- Mood:
- Key Diction:
- Literary Elements (metaphor; allusion; imagery;
symbolism):

Mandala

Thursday Writing into the Day

Is your purpose in life that of trying to do what makes you happy
and fulfilled(your chosen career, where you want to live, etc.)
OR
Is your purpose to fulfill the needs of others(career that would
best fit society, live where you should, etc.)
You must pick one or the other

Our New Class

A dawn of togetherness

New Way to Educate

New Creation
Under power of Federal Dept. of Education
Experimental organization
Called The Council of Scholars

Goal
Increase success of schools
Everyone is educated

Experiment

The Council of Scholars idea

Philip O. Berry chosen as a test school

YOU were chosen as a test class

Change

Change way to teach

Change way to act

Change way to learn

Just for this unit

Drastically different than anything you (or I) have been a part of

New Rules

Seated in columns and rows

-Students will remain under Federal Dept. of
education control

No one has a name

Titles given FDE(me)

Some are better than others

All equal

From now on you have a number

Numbers are not discriminatory

Based on row and seat

New Rules
Grades
There is a new grading policy
Arbitrary
Unchangeable

We will all learn from each other

Teach others according to your intelligence and learn according to
your needs
Any grades will be an average of the class

New Rules
Laws of the class
You may speak when spoken to by a member of the
Council of Learning(me)
You may stay in your seat at all times
You may do whatever a member of the Council of
Learning tells you to
Violations of these laws will impact everyone

Everything which is not permitted by the law of the

class is not allowed.

Is your purpose in life-that

of trying to do
what
makes you happy and
Discussion
Which
is
it?
fulfilled(your chosen career, where you want to live, etc.)
OR
Is your purpose to fulfill the needs of others(career that would best fit
society, live where you should, etc.)

You must pick one or the other