7 November: Dystopia, "The Children's Story"

1. Journal
2. Dystopian movies
3. Lit term notes
4. "The Children's Story" - read, discuss
5. "The Fun They Had" - homework, questions

1. Journal: "Ideal" - Write a paragraph about your ideal, perfect society
2. Dystopian movies: Students identifies movies they've seen from a list of dystopian movies. They wrote a sentence or 2 describing the movies. They wrote what they liked about them/didn't like about them. They determined what the movies had in common.

3. Lit term notes: Utopia

• An ideal place or state
• Etymology: from Greek.
  ¨ou "not"
  ¨topos "place”
• an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's book Utopia written in 1516

Dystopia.

• An imaginary place or state where the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror
• A work describing such a place
• Etymology: from Greek ¨dys "bad, abnormal, difficult"

4. "The Children's Story" - read aloud. Discussed
As you read, determine and predict:
¨SETTING: Place, time period, atmosphere
¨When was this written? How do you know?

This story was written in 1963. Does knowing that help you to better understand what it was about? Can you re-evaluate your understanding of the story after learning this?


5. "The Fun They Had" Read and questions include the following...

• 1.What are Margie and Tommy’s lives like?
• 2.Compare and contrast the quality of their life with your life.
• 3.What are the pros and cons of their educational system?
• 4.What are the pros and cons of our educational system?
• 5.Describe another educational system you’ve heard of (another country, state, a system from the past)
• Anything not finished in class is homework, due Wednesday, November 12.