This teaching guide for Feed
, a science fiction novel about the progression of technology, includes discussion questions geared towards student comprehension of the text. While the discussion questions focus on the content of the novel, they also require students to delve deeper into how the novel was written and how style enhances the story.
Excerpted from
Feed
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy girl who has decided to fight the feed and its ever-present ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. M. T. Anderson’s not-so-brave new world is a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.