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Students will be introduced to these two worlds through a quick note taking and multimedia experience. This will serve to provide them with enough background to begin writing their own narrative and to return to as they trace the story line of, The Giver, and determine whether the world in the novel is that of a Utopic or Dystopic nature.
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Utopia vs Dystopia

Published on Feb 21, 2018

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Utopia vs Dystopia

Students will be introduced to these two worlds through a quick note taking and multimedia experience. This will serve to provide them with enough background to begin writing their own narrative and to return to as they trace the story line of, The Giver, and determine whether the world in the novel is that of a Utopic or Dystopic nature.
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Utopia

The Quest for a Perfect Society
With this slide show students the video on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ql137GLHWw

Stop the video at :51 seconds and navigate to the next slide to allow students opportunity to take notes on the key characteristics.
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Utopian Characteristics

  • Citizens live in a harmonious state
  • Lacking the problems of today's world such as poverty, disease, oppression, discrimination, and equality
  • Equal access to education, healthcare, employment
Have students split their notes into two columns.

Instruct students to label the left side of their notes, "Utopia" and then prompt them to copy these notes onto the left side of their paper.
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Dystopia

Life After an Apocoplypse
Resume the video found at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ql137GLHWw

Play this video from :51 seconds to 1:50.
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Dystopia Characteristics

  • Ruled by a controlling or oprresive government
  • Extreme Poverty or Signficant Wage Gap between populations
  • Free thinking and independent thought is discouraged and/or banned
Have students label the right side of their notes: "Dystopia"

Instruct students to copy the following characteristics onto the right side of their paper.
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The Main Event

Unit Four 
Promo to students that these two ideologies will be the unit of study for our final quarter.

Navigate to the following website:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2fcWbJnJHA

Stop the video at 2:22

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Utopia or Dystopia

Which will you choose?
Instruct students to add their thinking to their two column notes.

Students will annotate their two column notes by adding their reactions to the topic.

Instruct students to use the following marks for their notes and to include their commentary with teach mark:

? - for a question

! - for something that shocks or excited them

* for a key detail

∞ -for a connection (text to text, text to world, text to self)
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