Debates are yucky. I think I have something that'll work though.
I'll just add a quick one I had thought up,
First we would ask a question that would split the class into 2 different groups, such as "Would you walk away from Omelas?". We would make one group go to one side of the room and the other group go to the other side. Now we would ask them some debatable question such as "Is their happiness so important that it is worth the sacrifice of a single person?" added in with the religous connection to Jesus Christ and also the fact that only one person in their society has to live like this, whereas today in our society, we have tones of people suffering, probably in even worse situations, with even less justification. After asking maby 2 or 3 questions and letting the groups argue amongst eachother and themselves, we would then ask the 2 groups to redecide upon which group they should be in. Then for the ones who switch (which I would hope some would) we would ask for them to reflect upon the reasoning for their original decision, and what factors had caused them to switch. And now for some reason I forget where I was going with this, but maby we can connect it into our theme or somthing =p.
in discussion Discussion / Notes Regarding the Story » Why walk away from Omelas?
I am sorry for coming on this so late, but it seems I haven't missed much, anyhow the main reason is probably that they disagree with ethics of stuffing a child in a room to suffer for everyone else.
Other things to talk about…
-Religion
-Philosophy
1) If you lived in Omelas and you had the choice to stay and live in peace in Omelas, or walk away from Omelas, which would you choose?
2) Is Omelas a true utopia?
3) Who are the ones who walk away? (Ending perhaps?)
4) Where are the people who walk away from Omelas going? Or does it matter?
5) The story talks a lot about happiness and joy. Would you agree in saying that the citizens of Omelas are truly happy? What is true happiness?
6) What is the POV? How does it affect the story?
7) Is what the people of Omelas are doing morally correct?
8) Importance of… (colours, boy playing flute, child in tool shed)
9) What is the source of conflict in the story? Is there a conflict?
10) If there is a protagonist/antagonist, who is it?
11) What is the overall tone of this story?
It appears it makes up for the right side hitting by continueing straight down.
there we go.
We still haven't hit the right side of the screen yet.
I forgot to mention: The max amount of nesting replies is 10. So if one comment gets 10 replies, another post must be started. :)
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Baha Fraser you're hilarious… :P
Holy crap that's some advanced stuff! Give me a few days to wrap my head around it.
What about the POV of the story? It's first-person observer POV, meaning that although the narrator is telling the story (I, me, my), he/she is stepping outside of his/her role in the story and can look at it as a whole, rather than only focusing on what's happening around him/her. What effect does this have on the story?
I apologize if this is really basic and I'm making it sound like you don't know anything about forum posting, but I'm not sure how many people have used this type of forum before, and it's a bit different than the Wikispaces one.
Replies to the original post are indented once, while replies to a specific post are indented again. See?