"Feed" Helps Students to Consider The Future

 "Feed" was mind-boggling and sometimes difficult to understand because of the slang used within the text. It was futuristic, somewhat scary, and most of the people in the story were very unbothered about the kind of control the government had in their literal brains. These are not complaints, though, these are the reasons I loved working with this text. I think students today could find a lot of enjoyment in reading this book, along with some apprehension and curiosity about what this says about our own society's future. I think that the students would actually enjoy trying to sipher the slang used within the text. In fact, one benefit of the text is that the students can learn to use context clues to translate the language used within the text. It would likely be comical to them, especially if the teacher told them that sometimes their slang is that difficult for us to understand. Furthermore, this book will have students seriously thinking about the reality of technology. The idea is not to scare them, but rather to peak their curiousity and broaden their horizons. I do believe that there is an undertone of warning in this book, but students could do all kinds of things with the text after reading it. 

One option for students to interact with the text is to create a timeline on their own for which this could become reality. They can use their imagination and research current technology to create their own futuristic technologies that could lead us to this point. This would have them research, infer, and be creative. This could also spark some great discussions and debates over whether this fictional situation is possible in our real world. A nice pairing for this text is the movie, "Ready Player One." It would go nicely and feature something even closer to our world today.