Tuesday, March 20, 2018

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JOURNAL TOPIC: (today's tunes: "I.C.Y." by Donald Fagen-- extra credit if you comment to this post and explain the title)

Describe life in California-- when you're 50 years old.  What do you think will be different?  Better?  Worse?  Why?

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Post answers to the following questions on your blog (title: THE PEDESTRIAN)

  • What is the theme of "The Pedestrian"?
  • How does Bradbury get this message across?  How do you know?
  • Describe the tone of the story.
  • Why don't more people walk in 2018?
  • What do you think about self-driving cars?
  • Do you think that technology such as self-driving cars, screen viewers, smartphones, and ear buds lead to more freedom/independence, isolation, or both?
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4 comments:

  1. Kevin's Blog-o-StuffMarch 20, 2018 at 9:34 AM

    "There are no books, only ideas"
    Huh...

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    1. Kevin's Blog-o-StuffMarch 20, 2018 at 9:37 AM

      I think that books are meant to be a way of information shared, but not like statistics for anything, but as a way sharing ideas. So technically, all books were ideas in a sense.

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  2. UnknownMarch 20, 2018 at 9:55 AM

    Books start with an idea of someone imagining something in there heads

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  3. UnknownMarch 20, 2018 at 12:47 PM

    Interesting question

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