Blog #4 Stacy Bulgakova Blogger 7-4

Aim: How is the essence of violence explored through the literary deconstruction of 1984?

Do Now: Is violence a necessity? (In a generalized context, consider all acts of violence.) If you agree, stand by the point board. If you disagree, stand by the window.

In the beginning of the lesson, all students had to choose their side on this matter and stand in a different side of the room, then the students argued with each other, incorporating facts from 1984 to further prove their violence/anti-violence claim. Treaty of Versailles was a point argued, and the point that intimidation by violence and fear doesnt necessarily arise tension but curbs it. From the opposing view, the creation of the olympics supported the fact of peace between the nations. In the end of the activity, we realized that violence and peace both have their own time, and that violence is complicated and more layered than you would think.
Later we discussed how Winston, the main character of 1984 experienced violence and were given a group activity where each group was given a familiar story that wasn’t perceived as violent which we had to analyze, some of these stories included stories from Grimm.
After a group discussion we talked out loud about the findings of violence from our research of the stories, one example of violence was the fact that Hansel and Gretel’s mother left the kids out in the forest to fend for themselves so she and her husband wont starve.