Part One - Triplicate II Novel Study II English

"I was never going to amount to much anyway, but now, statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless." - Samson Ward

1 How much brainwashing do you think has happened for teenagers to make this sort of claim as they're being led to their "death"?
I really don't think brainwashing is really involved as it's just really common senes that they're using, they know that they won't wake up to see another day and having common senes makes people fear that. So to them "Living in a divided state" is also like never waking up again and never achieving that one thing in life they've always wanted to, so to them it's like dying. because when you die, you don't wake up. so even if a part of them is going somewhere else, their not going to really experience anything that, that part of them is doing.

2 Why, do you think, has Shusterman chosen to have three characters tell their story?
To show us the story between a normal kid, an orphan kid, and a religious kid and how they react and work together to survive from being unwound.

3 Lev is a tithe. This means that he is the 10% that his family will give back to the church as an offering. What are your thoughts on this?
Honestly, I don't know what to think, I mean religious people have many different rules from non-reglious people, and just the thought of knowing you're going to die at a certain age just freaks me out. because what if there's something he really wants to do but has to give that up because he was told to. It's kinda sad knowing that you'll never see your loved one's again just because your parents said that you're doing a great thing for the family and for the church. to me, it just sounds like their just trying to get rid of him, they're a king and a queen and he's just the pawn in their game, he's their little pawn to just sacrifice to win the game.

4 Risa is a state home kid - she was unwanted at birth, and now the state have deiced she is no longer useful. Do you think that the state should ever be able to determine if one life is more useful than another?
Probably. I guess it just depends on how they act and what they wish to do for a job... but then again it's the state and no ones gonna wanna deny the state due to how much power they have.

5 Connor's parents have chosen to unwind him due to his difficult behaviour. They have then booked a ticket to the Bahamas. In your opinion, how do parents view their children? Why do you think this?
Parents who unwind their children view their children as basically nothing, they neglect and toss them to the side. because they're just going to die anyway. So there would be no point in their eyes to pay attention to them, or really give them the love they needed. to parents their just objects waiting to get thrown out and recycled for better use.

6 Pastor Dan presents as being conflicted. What reasons might he have to encourage Lev in his journey as a tithe? Why does he encourage him to run?
At the start, he encourages Lev due to religious reasons, and he encourages Lev to run later on because he felt something for Lev, guilt. because he hasn't experienced everything in life that he should have the chance to experience, and probably that he feels that no child should feel happy about the fact that their dying.

Exploring The Blurb II Dystopian Literature II English

Unwind Blurb
The process by which a child is both Terminated and kept alive is called 'unwinding'  Unwinding is now common, and accepted practice in society.

In the not-too-distant future, teens Connor, Risa and Lev are on the run for their lives. Following the second Civil war, between pro-choice and pro-life forces, the United States now allows parents to unwind their unwanted and difficult kids between the ages of thirteen and eighteen: Their bodies are surgically taken apart and all the organs and tissues are used in other people. According to the law, the kids aren't considered dead, they're "Living in a divided state." But Connor, Risa and Lev, and thousands of other teens slated for "Unwinding", don't see it that way. They choose instead to "Kick AWOL," or run away. Unwind follows these three across the country as they travel together, split up, and meet again when their destinies cross in a Harvest Camp where they are slated to be unwound.


1. What do you already know about pro-life and pro-choice groups? What do these terms mean? is it an issue you have thought about.
Pro-Life's side is where they believe life is too important and that the unborn child cannot be killed and Pro-Choice is the side where they believe that they get a choice to if they want to keep or get rid of the child before it's born.

2. What do you know about organ donation?It's where a person allows an organ of theirs to be removed from their body and given to another person, this legal either by consent while the donor is alive. And if dead with the assent of the next of the kin.

3. Teenagers to be unwound are sent to harvest camps. Can you make a connection between the language used to describe this place, and other places people have been sent historically?
In the story, the camp makes a connection with the concentration camps that existed in world war 2 when Hitler had reigned in Germany, concentration camps are sort of like the harvest camp in the story. But instead of being automatically killed when you reach harvest camp. The people in Concentration camp are either, starved to death or worked to death. because it was a concentration camp then they had little to rest and were all malnourished.

4. What religious connotation does the word 'harvest' evoke?
It envokes a free will to give up a part of yourself to a god. without feeling as though you have no choice or say.

5. The term "living in a divided state" here is really a euphemism for what? Can you think of other, common euphemisms? Why do people use euphemisms?

Passed away Instead of Died.
Dearly Departed Instead of Died.
Ethnic Cleansing Instead of Genocide.
Negative Patient Outcome Instead of Died.
Collateral Damage Instead of Accidental Deaths.
Put To Sleep Instead of Euthanize.

Pregnancy Termination Instead of Abortion.
Bite The Big One Instead of Died.

People use Euphemisms to tell other people about the death of someone or something in a nice way. so it doesn't affect them that bad and they don't have a breakdown but instead just cry in shock, like any other person would do when they lost someone close to them.

6. What is the definition of Legal?

Something is approved of by the Law/Minister meaning that is appropriate to do and if you do it, it won't get you put in jail or fined.

7. What about Ethical?

Ethical, based on your morals and how you view a certain topic and how you react to it. Like for example, if you were a Pro-Life then you believe that life is too important to get rid of therefore their Anti-Abortion and if you were Pro-Choice, then you believe that you yourself have a right to pick whether the child dies or lives.

8. Do you believe that because something is legal, it is ethical, or morally right?

Honestly, it's really based on what it is, in my opinion, if Unwind was Legal right now, I wouldn't put it as Morally right because your basically just killing a helpless child whose trying their best in life and trying to achieve something. But you're taking away that chance, and if they didn't want the child they could of just put it up for adoption. There are families out there who can't have children and would love one.

9. Can things that are ethically sound ever be illegal? Provide examples. 
Yes they can, such examples include - Avoiding/Cheating Taxes and Speeding

10. Can you think of examples in history to support your idea's? Provide Example
Not really sure on this one?

Unwind II Novel Study II English

Look at the original cover to the right, answer the following questions, remember to explain WHY you think that for each answer.

- How do you think this story will be written?
I think the story will be written in a first-person view, as they seem to be more common in books and seems to make more senes, and you don't seem to lose track of the story in first person, because your working on a single character meaning that there would be no point to suddenly go to another person in the same chapter, as it wouldn't really make sense.

- Why do you think the story is entitled as it is?
I'm guessing it has something to do with people being like killed or something. Cause by the look of it, the story looks to be of a horror theme due to the dark background and the colour red used, which can also mean blood, and also the fact that it took before the hunger games, and that there is a DNA sign on the book cover.

- Where do you think the story will take place?
I think the story will take someplace after a war, because if it is based on killing people. then it's more likely to be after a war, because during a war something aren't the same things change, people are killed and even after the war there would have been new laws and rules placed.

- What time period do you think the story is set in?

I think it will take place after either world war 2 or the Civil war somewhere in the future but no too far off, somewhere likely in the 21ths century.

Unwind II Novel Study II English

DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE

According to the science-fiction dictionary, Brave New Worlds dystopian literature is "an imagined society or state of  affairs in which conditions are extremely bad, especially in which these conditions result from the continuation of some current trend to an extreme."

Name three Synonyms for dystopia.

1 Anti-Utopia
2 Apocalypse

3 heterotopia

What is the antonym for dystopia?

Main - Dystopia
Meaning - A State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

Antonym - Utopia
Meaning - Ideally the perfect state: especially in its social and political and moral aspects

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TYPES OF DYSTOPIAN CONTROLS

- Corporate control: One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media.

- Bureaucratic control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials.


Which Dystopian novels have you read
- Unwind

How many others can you name?
- Unwind, Maze Runner, Giver, The 5th wave, The hunger games

Lottery II English

1. Describe the setting, using specific details from the story in your answer
- The story started with a bright filled sunny morning with clear skies and rich green grass, this took place in a village with over about Three Hundred people. The story, however, takes place in the square which is in between the post office and the bank, where all of the villagers are gathering around a black box for the lottery. in one of the corners of the square, there was a big pile of stones which was put off to the side till later notice.

2. Explain the feelings of most people in town toward the lottery.
- Old people (People old to the town) - Their fine with it and don't understand why others want to change it as they've learned to accept it and have grown so used to it, it's like a tradition for them.
- New people (New people to the town) - Nervous around the topic and try to find ways to avoid the outcome or just plainly want to hurry up the progress of the Lottery so they can leave and get back to what they were doing before.

3. What evidence is there that the lottery has been going on for a long time
- One of the people in the story (Old Man Warner) says "Seventy-Seventh year I been in the lottery" Indicating that the 'Lottery' has been going on for decades.

4. what is Old Man Warner's attitude about those who would like to change things?
- He felt disgusted towards them that they were trying to change the 'Lottery' after they've been doing it the same way for possibly decades.

5. Explain how the lottery works.
- The people of the village crowd around a black box, where their names are called and they take out a piece of paper (Men) They can't open the paper till everyone has grabbed a piece. Once everyone has grabbed a paper from the box they open it up. in the box, there is a single piece of paper with a dot on it. In the first round, the men of a household pull out a paper, and like before once they all have a piece of paper they open it up, and if one of the men from the family who pulled out the paper has a dot on it. Then the person from that certain family that pulled out the paper with the dot will go up again with the rest of their family and pull out a piece of paper (The paper that had the dot was stuck back in) Once all of the family has pulled out a piece of paper they open it up and like the first round they open it up to see if there is a dot.

Now before the Lottery started a bunch of rocks were grabbed and stuck in a pile.
Whoever in the last round got the dot was pushed into the center and the rocks that were collected were thrown at that person from that family that got the paper with the dot on it.

6. In what way is the title, "The Lottery", misleading? Why would the author want to trick the reader by having a misleading title?
- So when they start off the book it gives off a positive feel/vibe to it. So that when they reach the end they'll be in a surprise for the dark turn to the story and the true meaning that the word 'Lottery' meant for the book.

Migration II Social Studies

Since is were still in quarantine and the term has just recently started doesn't mean we can escape school work. which is where this comes in. Since it's the start of a new term, term 2 this means we have a new topic and for Social Studies is Migration

For this task, we had to make a PowToon or a MySimpleShow. For this, I picked Powtoon as it's what I'm most familiar with.
For this, we had to make a slideshow and talk about the push and pull factors of migration and why people move to a new place.

This took me 2 days to finish in total. And Honestly, I think I would have gotten it done faster if I was at school. But I'm proud of my work anyway.