Short Story Friday Instead of Narrative Friday, we are going to participate in Short Story Friday for the next quarter (at least!). Everyone in the class will pick a short story that they want to read, research, then re-write. There can be no more than three people per story. These three people will then read the story, research it, and re-write the story in a different context. Finally, they will present the story to the class in their chosen format. Group Members: 1)Camron 2)Hunter 3)Nick
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“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. Some things about
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My uncle died with his name at the bottom of a list; his name was Robert Walker. Uncle Bob had worked his whole life to move up the ranks to become a cardiovascular surgeon. But when he arrived to the top, he was unsatisfied; he wanted to take a step even further. To fill the hole of discontent, he and a few of his fellow colleagues created a whole new medical procedure called a heart bypass surgery. In simple terms, a heart bypass surgery entails taking healthy blood vessels from a different part
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restricted from having freedom and being unique by being forced to wear handicaps that hide everyones inner and outer beauty. Citizens are tortured by total equality, they are forced to hide their special attributes that make them individual. George Bergeron, being above average intelligence, must wear a “little mental handicap radio” in his ear so he does not take an unfair advantage of his bran. (Bradbury 2) The government's goal is to use the radio to handicap Georges mentality rate so he cannot use
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[pic] JPPSS ELA COURSE GUIDE 2011-2012 ENGLISH I The JPPSS Instructional Sequence Guides are aligned with the LA Comprehensive Curriculum. JPPSS Implementation of Activities in the Classroom Incorporation of activities into lesson plans is critical to the successful implementation of the Louisiana Comprehensive
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The New Astrology by SUZANNE WHITE Copyright © 1986 Suzanne White. All rights reserved. 2 Dedication book is dedicated to my mother, Elva Louise McMullen Hoskins, who is gone from this world, but who would have been happy to share this page with my courageous kids, April Daisy White and Autumn Lee White; my brothers, George, Peter and John Hoskins; my niece Pamela Potenza; and my loyal friends Kitti Weissberger, Val Paul Pierotti, Stan Albro, Nathaniel Webster, Jean Valère Pignal
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