Dystopia Unit
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Assessments
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1. Dystopian Reading Response to short dystopia text
2. Analysis of Dystopian video (Media) 3. Guided Reading Group Discussion 4. Dystopia ISU (Read a Novel in a literature circle and recreate it using its basic elements as a Dystopia) a) write out the back story to the dystopian society you made b) write a narrative text that is an excerpt of the new dystopian story c) create a 'resistance' propaganda poster that is against the dystopian society 5. Dystopian Play 6. Dystopian Picture Book |
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Resources
Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother"
Dystopian Short Stories
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Selected Student Dystopia Stories/Poems
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The Fall of the Olympians
Annushka Noor 2017 
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Fallen Apples
Deborah Cai 2017
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The Inside
Cally Leung
2017
Cally Leung
2017
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops explores our relationship with the Earth, other people, our creations and self. The author is concerned that our creations (machines and machine-type thinking) have destroyed our relationship with the Earth, others and ourselves. Everything and everyone is valued only based on how it and they fit the machine's needs; the machine is the measure! There is only one mindset and way of life -- the machine's.
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Machine Stops Analysis
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/belli-sp2014-eng2000/category/reading-responses/the-machine-stops/
The Ones who Walk away from Omelas
A child is the means for others' happiness.
The story gets you to think about our relationship with other people and what kind of society we should create. It does this by making the way in which the child causes the happiness of others unclear.
This story can relate to colonization, child labour and a 'machine' thinking that wants to maximize happiness but does not care about individuals.
It is critical of utilitarianism -- a philosophy that argues we should set up our society to maximize utility (i.e. happiness).
The story gets you to think about our relationship with other people and what kind of society we should create. It does this by making the way in which the child causes the happiness of others unclear.
This story can relate to colonization, child labour and a 'machine' thinking that wants to maximize happiness but does not care about individuals.
It is critical of utilitarianism -- a philosophy that argues we should set up our society to maximize utility (i.e. happiness).
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Lists of Dystopian Novels
Dystopian Videos
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Propaganda Poster Examples
Past Dystopia Projects
Independent Study Project
| independent_dystopia_project__arthur_.docx |
| summary_of_dystopian_text.docx |
| dystopia_film_analysis_sheet.docx |
| dystopia_films_compare_and_contrast_essay.docx |
| critical_response_to_1984.docx |
Book Covers
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Book Cover Examples
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Example of rough planning of book cover
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