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Quick Conversation
Share your work with a partner. Take turns explaining your textual evidence and analysis of how it supports the theme. Discuss whether your partner agrees or disagrees with your analysis. Record notes from your discussion.
In my opinion, the image shows a lack of personal choice because .
Write a Short Argument
After finding and analyzing textual evidence to support the theme of “Harrison Bergeron,” you have enough information to write a short argument. Choose one piece of textual evidence from your chart. Write a short argument in which you explain the meaning of the textual evidence and how it supports the theme. Before writing, read the model short argument provided. Notice what information is in each of the five sentences. Try structuring your argument in the same way.
The characters’ unhappiness is revealed in dialogue like .
I agree with your analysis because .
This textual evidence supports the theme because it shows .
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SpringBoard® English Language Development Grade 8
ModEl: SHort ArguMEnt
One theme of “Harrison Bergeron” is that trying to create complete equality can rob people of personal choices and happiness. George is a man of above average intelligence, but he must wear a transmitter to keep his thoughts scattered. The sounds are so loud and disrup- tive that he turns “white and trembling” and his “red eyes” have tears in them. A person who is pale and shaking with bloodshot eyes is not happy. Making George equal has made him less happy, not more happy.
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