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A speculative setting can expose an assumption without predicting that the setting will become real.
Try the short introduction first, or bring equivalent reading experience. Obtain the specified text before beginning the longer reading.
Change one institution in a fictional society and trace two consequences, then identify a consequence your story has not justified.
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Introduces the question and vocabulary used in the longer selected reading.
Ursula K. Le Guin · book
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.
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Find a copyThe Left Hand of Darkness. Fiction and essays that reconsider social arrangements, gender and the technologies of ordinary life. Examine the assumptions built into a fictional world.
Answer this question in your own words: Which social assumptions become visible when a fictional world changes them?
Name the claim, then explain why a reader might accept it.
A speculative setting can expose an assumption without predicting that the setting will become real.
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Common mistake: Summarising a biography instead of explaining the argument.
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Ursula K. Le Guin · book
Locate two passages about “Which social assumptions become visible when a fictional world changes them” using the contents or index. Record their chapter/section names in your notes; this route assigns selections, not the whole work.
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Find a copyThe Left Hand of Darkness. Fiction and essays that reconsider social arrangements, gender and the technologies of ordinary life. Examine the assumptions built into a fictional world.
What would make your activity a convincing example?
Change one institution in a fictional society and trace two consequences, then identify a consequence your story has not justified.
A useful response carries out the task: Change one institution in a fictional society and trace two consequences, then identify a consequence your story has not justified. It records the observation or passage used and explains how it bears on the question.
What to look for
Common mistake: Presenting an opinion without showing the example it rests on.
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What is one conclusion this reading does not establish?
Test the boundary: A thought experiment’s usefulness is not evidence that its imagined society could function as described.
A thought experiment’s usefulness is not evidence that its imagined society could function as described.
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Common mistake: Treating a useful interpretation as an unrestricted fact.
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Fiction and essays that reconsider social arrangements, gender and the technologies of ordinary life. Examine the assumptions built into a fictional world.
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.