Please get back into your groups from yesterday, take out the Chapter 2 and 3 quiz you got back yesterday and share your thoughts on the following...
21. (10 points) Critical Thinking Response: The
following is a closing paragraph from an essay written by one of my students
three years ago. He was writing about
George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984. Read his closing paragraph and then write a
well-developed paragraph which 1) explores possible connections to themes in Night, or 2) responds to his assertion (you might support, refute,
or qualify his assertion) that United States is not immune to the future
possibility of extreme oppression (including executions or genocide) similar to
that seen in the other nations mentioned in this paragraph.
Orwell
spread warnings through his book (1984)
about the dangers governments can present to the people if the people become
complacent. This has happened throughout history in Germany, France, China, the
Soviet Union, and countless other nations; the
United States is not impervious. To combat the oppression, people must
band together and work as a collective unit to assert and maintain their
freedoms, instead of using make-believe differences to divide themselves. To
quote the band AntiFlag, “First they came for the communists/And I did not
speak out/Then they came for the socialists/And I did not speak out/Next they
came for the trade unionists/And I did not speak out/And then they came for
me.” Protecting the exploited will prevent future exploitation. Once people
forget that then the whole of humanity is helpless.
Now, work in the following group pairings, disucssing your obserrvations and reflections from yesterday:
1-8
2-7
3-6
4-5
God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.Now, work in the following group pairings, disucssing your obserrvations and reflections from yesterday:
1-8
2-7
3-6
4-5
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