Tuesday, November 4, 2008

11/4 English 9HP

Your groups' spokespeople presented the utopian societies you created yesterday. Then you began answering the following questions in your Reader's-Writer's Notebook:

1. Is there less personal responsibility or more responsibility in your utopian groups than in society right now?
2. Can a utopian society actually exist? Why or why not?
3. Is a utopian society dependent upon the individual and his or her inner morality, or upon the outside force of a governing system?
4. Which is easier to create, a utopian society or a totalitarian society? Why?
5. Can a totalitarian society be a utopia?
6. What do you think anti-utopian means?

Homework:
Read Ch.1-5 of 1984 for tomorrow's class.
Finish answering the questions above. We'll discuss your answers in class tomorrow.

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