Writing Wednesday - Celebrity Culture
On Loose-Leaf paper, respond to ONE of the following prompts with two 5-7 sentence paragraphs.
Prompt 1: Write a story about someone who is famous for being famous, but who loses his or her fame.
Prompt 2: How do you feel about celebrity worship in our culture? Why do you think some people spend time and energy focusing on the lives of other, more famous people? Use examples to fill out your paragraphs.
Prompt 3: Tell a (true or imagined) story about meeting someone famous. Did he or she live up to your expectations? Was this person all that you had imagined?
“In the 19th century the struggle was between the working class and the ruling class over the means of production. By the end of the 20th century, the paradigm was made obsolete by new classes – the leisure class, the creative class, the consumer class. Now there’s a whole new emerging class bringing another sea change, the celebrity class. Suddenly we have an entire stratus of people who are famous just for being famous. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t the most talented, or the most virtuous, or even the most beautiful, as long as people know who you are. We’ve built a brave new world where every man and woman can be a star.” –Concrete Underground by Moxie Mezcal
Prompt 4: Re-write the above quotation using mostly different words. Use synonyms, and re-phrase the sentences. Then, in a separate paragraph, summarize what the above quotation means.
Classwork Part 2:
On Loose-Leaf paper, respond to ONE of the following prompts with two 5-7 sentence paragraphs.
Prompt 1: Write a story about someone who is famous for being famous, but who loses his or her fame.
Prompt 2: How do you feel about celebrity worship in our culture? Why do you think some people spend time and energy focusing on the lives of other, more famous people? Use examples to fill out your paragraphs.
Prompt 3: Tell a (true or imagined) story about meeting someone famous. Did he or she live up to your expectations? Was this person all that you had imagined?
“In the 19th century the struggle was between the working class and the ruling class over the means of production. By the end of the 20th century, the paradigm was made obsolete by new classes – the leisure class, the creative class, the consumer class. Now there’s a whole new emerging class bringing another sea change, the celebrity class. Suddenly we have an entire stratus of people who are famous just for being famous. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t the most talented, or the most virtuous, or even the most beautiful, as long as people know who you are. We’ve built a brave new world where every man and woman can be a star.” –Concrete Underground by Moxie Mezcal
Prompt 4: Re-write the above quotation using mostly different words. Use synonyms, and re-phrase the sentences. Then, in a separate paragraph, summarize what the above quotation means.
Classwork Part 2: