Lesson Planning Guide: Eng. 359, Seminar! Date:!

May 1, 2014 Subject: Dystopia Unit

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Grade Level: 7th Grade !

Lesson 1: What is Utopia?

! ! Objectives !
Students will be able to: Dene what it means to be Utopian. ! Create their own Utopian Society individually by choosing rules, illustrating the setting, and determining what will happen when the rules are not obeyed. Compare and contrast individual Utopian Societies with others in groups of 3. ! Present and Defend the Utopian Societies you made in groups with the rest of the class.! Reect upon this project by discussing these questions: Was it hard to come up with a Utopia on your own? Did it get harder when you tried to create one with others? !What are some things that might go wrong with your Utopia?

Assessment
Summative- Students will turn in both their individual and group records of what their Utopian society will be like. I plan on giving the option of drawing pictures as well, so all material they create will be graded for participation. Formative- Students will be able to discuss the questions with their small groups (so everyones voices are heard) and then with the large group at the end of class. Formative- In addition to participation, students will be able to come up with a working denition of Utopia at the end of the activity. This denition will go on the website homepage.

Materials/Setup
Blank sheets of paper (enough per student)

Methods
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Hook: Teacher says, Close your eyes for one minute and imagine what you would dene as the perfect world. What would the landscape be like? What would the food be like? What kind of people would in this perfect world of yours? Would they all be really good at sports, or painting, or music? Or would they all have di"erent talents? What would your ideal government be like? What types of policies or rules would you make? How would you treat children? What would school be like? How would you distribute food/what food would their be? What kinds of jobs would their be? How would people get the jobs? Would there be war? How would you deal with arguments? Today, we are going to be looking at Utopia. Utopia is sort of like someones idea of the perfect world. By the end of today, you all should be able to come up with a better denition of what Utopia is, so as you are going through the day, keep this question in the back of your mind: What is Utopia?
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The Main Event: Get out your journals and reect upon these questions: Now that you have reected or imagined this, take some time to record a few rules. Rules are important to make things run smoothly. Write down ten of the rules you think will be most important.

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Get in a group of three. (Note: Be sure Asbergers student is in a group with two people that will support and uphold her ideas.) Pretend you are on the council of advisors in the Utopian Village. How will you collaborate on each others ideas and compromise to make the best Utopia ever. Read aloud the Utopian ideals you all came up with. Combine your lists, working together to make one Utopian ideal. You should narrow down your rules to the 5-7 most important ones.
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Share your Utopias with the entire class. (Once again, keep an eye out for Asbergers student. If she is overly uncomfortable sharing the ideas in front of class, she can pass the baton to a team member.) Once the presenters have shared, ask the class as a whole if this society would work, why or why not? Have audience come up with questions. Presenters must defend their Utopia against the re from their classmates (who probably think that they have a better society). Next, ask what would work for this society? What parts did the audience think would be good in a society?
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Closure: Reect upon this project by discussing these questions: Was it hard to come up with a Utopia on your own? Did it get harder when you tried to create one with others? #What are some things that might go wrong with your Utopia?! Wrap this up by coming up with a better denition of what Utopia really means. Sponge Activities
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