As a longtime teacher, I thoroughly enjoy helping young people enjoy good stories. I do this with both humor and gentleness, meaning students in my literature-based classes typically really enjoy them. In the case of this class, all you need to do in advance of the class session is read the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It's intended to be a thought-provoking story in which the author has envisioned a future United States in which everyone has to be equal. So if you are a good dancer, for instance, you have to wear sand bags on your body that make graceful movement harder for you. We don't want anyone feeling bad because they're not as good as someone else at something, right?

What would happen in such a society? Why did the author write this story? Is it some kind of warning?

You can find the story online at https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt so you can go check it out, even read it, before committing to this class.

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