LOOK SMART ON THE BEACH

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SUMMER READING
FOR-FUN READING

• LOOK SMART ON THE BEACH
• ENTERTAIN YOURSELF ON THE AIRPLANE
• START THE SCHOOL YEAR WITH AN
• A A B C ?

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FUTURE FICTION
FUTURE FICTION

• FAST FORWARD IN TIME.......
• WHAT WILL LIFE BE LIKE IN THE YEAR
• 2050? 2100? 2500?

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• MANY WRITERS HAVE ANSWERED THIS QUESTION IN
  CREATIVEAND SOMETIMES TROUBLINGWAYS.
• THEIR WORKS FORM A SUBGENRE OF SCIENCE
  FICTION
• FUTURE FICTION

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WHY FUTURE FICTION?

• It offers escapist entertainment while still
  delivering a message.
• Is it simply human nature to wonder what will
  happen in the future?
• Technology science play an ever-more important
  role in human life.
• It deals with how changes in our world may
  infringe on individual freedom
  self-determination.

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DYSTOPIC VISIONS

• Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in
  social, political, moral aspects
• vs.
• Dystopia An imaginary state in which life is
  extremely bad, from deprivation, oppression, or
  terror

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CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

• TEXTS TO CHOOSE FROM
• BRAVE NEW WORLD
• 1984
• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
• THE HANDMAIDS TALE
• ANTHEM
• DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

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SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS

• THE WORK TO DO
• GET THE BOOK (BORROW FROM THE ALMACEN, BUY IT,
  BORROW FROM A FRIEND)
• READ THE ENTIRE BOOK
• POST AT LEAST 4 RESPONSES ON THE SUMMER READING
  FORUM
• PREPARE TO DISCUSS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL
  YEAR

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SUMMER READING FORUM

• WHAT TO DO
• GO TO fcaqsummerbooks.proboards106.com
• SIGN UP AS A MEMBER
• POST AT LEAST 4 TIMES ON THE BOARD FOR YOUR BOOK
• BE SURE YOU SIGN EACH POSTING USING YOUR COMPLETE
  NAME!

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

• by Aldous Huxley
• published 1932, set in A.F. 632 (c.a. 2500)
• In a totalitarian scientific state, humans are
  mass-produced in factories.
• Scientific advances lead to social engineering.
• Drugs brainwashing keep people passive.
• sanity, society, stability

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1984

• by George Orwell
• published 1948, set 1984
• In a totalitarian state at constant war, not even
  thoughts are free.
• Newspeak is Orwells new language, in which
  meaning is paradoxical
• WAR IS PEACE
• freedom government

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

• by Anthony Burgess
• published 1960, set 1972
• In a chaotic, morally decadent society
  drug-addicted youth gangs commit ultraviolence.
• A new lexicon of words called nadsat blends
  teenage jargon Russian.
• free will society

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THE HANDMAIDS TALE

• by Margaret Atwood
• published 1985, set in near future
• In a totalitarian state, most women are
  infertile those who can must bear children for
  all.
• A caste system places people based on their
  social function, allowing no freedom.
• feminism reproduction

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ANTHEM

• by Ayn Rand
• published 1938, set after the Great Rebirth (a
  sort of reverse Renaissance)
• The collective totalitarian state forbids
  individuality, as symbolized by the use of WE
  rather than I.
• The state determines every stage of peoples
  lives.
• freedom and individualism

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DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

• by Philip K. Dick
• published 1968, set in 2021
• After worldwide wars leave Earth devastated, most
  humans move off-planet.
• Humans crave contact with any living creatures
  and fear androids that are almost
  indistinguishable from humans themselves.
• humanism technology

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• Refer to the Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
  policies in the Student Manual (link on School's
  web page atwww.fcaq.k12.ec)Plagiarism 
  includes any attempt to take credit for another
  persons work. This includes quoting directly from
  a book or web site, without crediting the source.
  Sources should always be referenced, a link to
  the website added, or quotation marks placed
  around the material.