9/1/16 Thursday Agenda

Welcome to Back to School Night!

English 2 Honors (Background and Blog)

Literature: 
     First Semester: Short stories, Persepolis, Julius Caesar, Drama, Non-fiction
     Second Semester: Frankenstein, Dante's Inferno, A Doll's House, Poetry and Non-fiction

Vocabulary:
     Quizlet Page on Blog

Literature Circle Book Analysis:
     See Page

Questions?




1. Have "Omelas" homework out and ready to discuss.

2. Answer this question for "Omelas" on the back of your homework and turn in by the end of the period.

"The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas" 

Question

"The central idea of this psychomyth, the scapegoat", writes Le Guin, "turns up in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, and several people have asked me, rather suspiciously, why I gave the credit to William James. When I met it in James' 'The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life,' it was with a shock of recognition" (Le Guin).
The quote from William James is:
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs, Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifically and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain? 

Mrs. Kurth reads from Matthew Quick's The Good Luck of Right Now pg 149


Do modern societies, in the interest of maximizing the happiness of the majority, contain the same kinds of trade-offs that we see in Omelas?

HW=

1. Study Lit Terms and Unit 2 vocabulary for the quiz tomorrow. 5 points extra credit to the highest score in Scatter on Quizlet!

2. Read LC book and do your assigned LC task for this week.