Animals
Great book, and surprisingly easy to read (For Star Trek fans think Borg). Equality 7-2521 lives in a world in which it is forbidden to be alone. You are raised in the Home of Infants until you are five, then you are sent to the Hall of Students.
Scared yet?
At 15 you are sent to the Home of Vocations where you are told what job you will have. Equality 7-2521 was condemned to be a street sweeper. But he found an abandoned tunnel from the Unmentionable Times, discovered electricity and fell in love with Liberty 5-3000 (never mind that it is strictly forbidden to talk to members of the opposite sex).
He took his find to the Hall of Scholars where it was rejected and he was forced to flee into the Uncharted Forest to escape from being burned at the stake. Liberty 5-3000 follows him into the forest......................
We are using this book in our American Literature unit. First we will study Ayn Rand, and discuss how difficult it must have been to write a book in English, when her native tongue was Russian. Anthem was written in 1937, so we are also going to discuss what America was like during that time period. Thanks to the Ayn Rand Institute we also have a study guide and lesson plans for the book.
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Animals
Alasandra's Book Club ~ Anthem by Ayn Rand
Great book, and surprisingly easy to read (For Star Trek fans think Borg). Equality 7-2521 lives in a world in which it is forbidden to be alone. You are raised in the Home of Infants until you are five, then you are sent to the Hall of Students.
This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.
Scared yet?
At 15 you are sent to the Home of Vocations where you are told what job you will have. Equality 7-2521 was condemned to be a street sweeper. But he found an abandoned tunnel from the Unmentionable Times, discovered electricity and fell in love with Liberty 5-3000 (never mind that it is strictly forbidden to talk to members of the opposite sex).
He took his find to the Hall of Scholars where it was rejected and he was forced to flee into the Uncharted Forest to escape from being burned at the stake. Liberty 5-3000 follows him into the forest......................
We are using this book in our American Literature unit. First we will study Ayn Rand, and discuss how difficult it must have been to write a book in English, when her native tongue was Russian. Anthem was written in 1937, so we are also going to discuss what America was like during that time period. Thanks to the Ayn Rand Institute we also have a study guide and lesson plans for the book.
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Ayn Rand was born and raised in St. Petersburg (later called Petrograd and then Leningrad). Books by Ayn Rand Websites The Ayn Rand Insitute, they have GREAT resources for teachers. The Atlas Society ...
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I loved Mother Crone's Whining Victims of Public Schools. We have all known parents like that. They would rather bitch, whine, and moan then actually do something to improve the situation. Although to be fair you pretty much either have to take your...
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