Honors Geometry Flatland Project Assignment: Write a paper on the book by Edwin Abbott. Flatland Your paper should be 2-3 pages long and should discuss one or more things you thought were interesting about the book, accompanied by specific examples from the book. Some topics you may want to write about: Which was your favorite chapter and why? What things did you find strange or confusing about Flatland? What do you think how Abbott portrayed males and females in Flatland? What was the in and why did it exist? What Flatland, “High Council” purpose(s) did it serve? How was Abbott using to make points about our society? What Flatland points do you think he was trying to make? If you had written in what ways would your book have been different Flatland, from Abbott’s book? Note that these are only suggestions; you may have other ideas that occur to you. Note also that you are not writing a you will need to describe “book report.” While certain things that happen in the book, want you to describe the events of only I don’t the book. I want to know what you found interesting and why. You will turn in two things: A Microsoft Word document, emailed as an attachment to Mr. B at . (Your Word doc must have your name typed at the top of the document.) A hardcopy printout of the Word doc. Grading: This project will count as one quiz grade. Due date: Your paper will be due on ___________________________________________. The hardcopy printout must be turned in to Mr. Bledsoe by 2:30pm on this date; the email containing the Word doc must be timestamped by 11:59pm on this date. Points will be deducted for late work.
Honors Geometry Flatland Project Assignment: Write a paper on the book Flatland by Edwin Abbott. Your paper should be 2-3 pages long and should discuss one or more things you thought were interesting about the book, accompanied by specific examples from the book. Some topics you may want to write about: Which was your favorite chapter and why? What things did you find strange or confusing about Flatland? What do you think how Abbott portrayed males and females in Flatland? What was the “High Council” in Flatland, and why did it exist? What purpose(s) did it serve? How was Abbott using Flatland to make points about our society? What points do you think he was trying to make? If you had written Flatland, in what ways would your book have been different from Abbott’s book? Note that these are only suggestions; you may have other ideas that occur to you. Note also that you are not writing a “book report.” While you will need to describe certain things that happen in the book, I don’t want you to only describe the events of the book. I want to know what you found interesting and why. You will turn in two things: A Microsoft Word document, emailed as an attachment to Mr. B at . (Your Word doc must have your name typed at the top of the document.) A hardcopy printout of the Word doc. Grading: This project will count as one quiz grade. Due date: Your paper will be due on ___________________________________________. The hardcopy printout must be turned in to Mr. Bledsoe by 2:30pm on this date; the email containing the Word doc must be timestamped by 11:59pm on this date. Points will be deducted for late work.
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