You deserve to simplify your planning through enriching, engaging resources. Engage your students in a study of dystopias and dystopian literature through this engaging and rigorous PBL! This unit is meant to work alongside a book study of any dystopian novel [Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, 1984,
Wrapping up a unit on dystopian literature? This project is the perfect way to incorporate point of view, rhetoric, and argumentative writing into a simple unit in dystopia. This no-prep project includes directions, examples, student worksheets, and rubrics to integrate seamlessly into your unit. Wh
Dystopian Novel Current Events Project
This is a great alternative summative assessment to use at the close of a dystopian novel unit. This project requires students to make connections between events/social issues present in the dystopian novel and those within your local area, country, and world. This project has a research component a
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Purchase this Complete Dystopian Literature Circles Unit perfect for book groups, independent reading, or whole-class instruction for grades 8-10. Encourage student interest in reading while supporting varying lexile levels, common core standards and skills. Objectives: -Provide access to differenti
Dystopian Novel Literature Circles
This 31-day unit gives students an overview of dystopian literature using a variety of texts, activities, and writing assignments. Students will first research the historical context of dystopian literature with a webquest. After researching, students will read, as a class, 5 dystopic short stories,
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Dystopian Films [Bundle]
DYSTOPIAN FILMS - bundle - four products combined - 20% discount.I use films as a way to introduce students to philosophy. I put a copy of the film in the library on reserve and my students are able to take the copy out for four hours at a time; they watch the film on their own time as a form of ho
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Hook your students on George Orwell's famous dystopian novel, 1984, with this introductory activity set. The engaging author research activity gives your students important information about George Orwell, and an introductory slideshow provides the necessary background on the dystopian genre. Once y
This 5-6 week unit combines Reading and Writing Workshop into a Literature Circle Genre Study of Dystopian Fiction and hits on a wide array of reading, writing, speaking, and listening standards. Download the preview to read the full lesson plans, purchase the full unit and receive all of the worksh
If you are looking to teach dystopian literature or read a dystopian short story—look no further. If you've never read We Ate The Children Last, I highly recommend it! It's a quick read, only a little more than 1,000 words.... with every line more disturbing than the next. The text can be found for
Science Fiction or Dystopian Reading Response Journal
For a class novel, genre study, book clubs [literature circles], or independent reading, this packet will challenge your students to summarize the text and analyze story elements using textual evidence and critical thinking. The standards-based questions are open-ended enough to use with a variety o
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut: Dystopian Short Story Unit
Want to inspire your classes to engage in healthy discussion and speak out against injustices? Students are bombarded on a daily basis with the message that it’s better to go along to get along, and that conflict is scary and to be avoided. They are led to believe that their voice isn’t important,
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This engaging 4-week unit plan uses reading workshop and writing workshop to organize a dystopian-themed book club for your students. The unit plan includes:20 detailed lesson plans, printables ad graphic organizers,PowerPoint presentation [153 slides], andlinks to all videos, poetry, short stories,
Ursula K. Le Guin's short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is perfect when studying utopian and dystopian literature. The theme: there cannot be happiness in the world without suffering. Included in this literary analysis of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas:Academic VocabularyAnticipatio
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Hook your students on William Golding's famous dystopian allegory, Lord of the Flies, with this introductory activity set. The engaging author research activity gives your students important information about William Golding, and an introductory slideshow provides the necessary background on the dys
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NO PREP! No annoying copies to make! NO PAPER! No set-up! No cutting, hiding, arranging, taping, or stressing! These games are the ultimate way to challenge your students while you take the backseat. Get your students started with these games in four easy steps:❶ Review your 3-4 page teacher guid
Wrapping up a unit on dystopian literature? This project is the perfect way to incorporate point of view, rhetoric, and argumentative writing into a simple unit in dystopia. This no-prep project includes directions, examples, student worksheets, and rubrics to integrate seamlessly into your unit. Wh
Pick Your [Dystopian] Path
During my student teaching, I was placed with a teacher who had many interesting English electives, one of which was Science Fiction. After COVID-19 forced everyone to teach online, I had to rework my lesson plan for this class. My cooperating teacher gave me the idea to use Google Sites. I spent ab
Dystopian Novels Digital Escape Room Review Bundle
NO PREP! No annoying copies to make! NO PAPER! No set-up! No cutting, hiding, arranging, taping, or stressing! These games are the ultimate way to challenge your students while you take the backseat. Get your students started with these games in four easy steps:❶ Review your 3-4 page teacher guid
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Introduction to DYSTOPIAN novels unit with the following novels: The Hunger Games, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, and Uglies.This uses technology and has ACTIVE YouTube links to great things like: interviews, book reviews, trailers, and more! You can use it with stations with laptops or individual work
THE DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
It's that time of the year where you teach Utopian and Dystopian literature. Well, this product will help students to understand the concepts and shine in your class!This THE DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY product can be used for comprehension of Dystopia. Indeed, this FREEBIE has 4-pages definitions and descrip
BLADE RUNNER | BLADE RUNNER FILM STUDY | DYSTOPIAN FILMS
BLADE RUNNER | BLADE RUNNER FILM STUDYDYSTOPIAN FILMSBLADE RUNNER is an excellent film to use when studying philosophical concepts including, but not limited to, the following: morality, ethics, sacrifice, duty, knowledge, and postmodernism.This product is in my FRANKENSTEIN AND BLADE RUNNER bundle:
Dystopian Short Story Bundle, GOOGLE CLASSROOM READY!
Thirty days of lessons!This is the first unit of my Science Fiction Literature class, and it has proven to be very popular with my students! The schedule is posted below. All of these resources come in Google Doc, PDF, and DOCX formats, and all of them have answer keys.Here is how it works:Daily War
Give students the opportunity to write about their concerns about their world by writing a dystopian short story! Using this assignment, with built-in scaffolding, students will walk through prewriting to tell a dystopian narrative with intention.Woven into the assignment are opportunities for mini
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Used with: Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Harrison Bergeron, The Lottery, Minority Report, We Ate the Children Last, The Windup Girl, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Hunger Games. I use this with my high school students for literature circle discussion, Independent Reading Interrogations [this is when my
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**GREAT FOR COMMON CORE PROJECT BASED LEARNING!**This unit includes a reading schedule with an explanation for tracking and commenting on theme, irony, paradox, propaganda, and dystopian traits; the project descriptions and instructions--5 project choices, 1 for each of the tracked literary term; a
Hook your students on Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, with this introductory activity set. The engaging author research activity gives your students important information about Margaret Atwood, and an introductory slideshow provides the necessary background on the dyst
Hook your students on Aldous Huxley's famous dystopian novel, Brave New World, with this introductory activity set. The engaging author research activity gives your students important information about Aldous Huxley, and an introductory slideshow provides the necessary background on the dystopian ge
An interactive, multi-text introduction to the fictional genre of Dystopias. This PowerPoint and PDF 26-page unit includes definitions, video links, text links, assessment task outlines, and assessment criteria; culminating in an end-of-unit Comparative Essay Task.CONTENTSUtopiaThe Perfect Country [
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Dystopian Book Clubs Summative Two
This summative is designed to go along with the Calkins Book Club Bend One of Dystopian Literature. There are also questions about common root words. You can take those out, but the questions on dystopian literature align with the Calkins Bend One Section.
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This unit provides daily group activities for dystopian-themed literature circles. There are Monday questions, Wednesday questions, and Friday questions all themed around issues of power and self-sacrifice. I recommend having students answer these questions in blog format, such as Schoology, Google
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Unit Plans for eight Distopian Literature works. Includes pacing guides, text to film essays, activities, reading quizzes, and discussions. This bundle has everything you need to get started teaching classics in an engaging way! Units included: 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Divergent, Fahre
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I promise you will love this unit! Resources for 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 are included, so you can choose which book. It includes timed writings, optional research project, poems and poetry writing, Newspeak activity, Supreme Court cases, quizzes for the books, and discussion leads. Feel free to co
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Teach your students about the lives of five famous dystopian authors with these highly engaging, Instagram themed biography graphic organizers/templates. In these CCSS aligned worksheets, your students will research the lives and legacies of various dystopian authors and, with the information they g
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Genre Word Art Poster: Dystopian
A bright and modern poster featuring key words for the fiction literature genre 'Dystopian'. Use it to promote reading to students and help them to independently pick genres they will enjoy. It could also assist students with writing in the style of a specific genre.This zip file contains an editabl
Dystopian Mini Unit
Lingering Love of Literature
This unit will give you access to high-interest and high-yield activities for your [at times] hard to reach upperclassmen. With the NO PREP content, you will have beginning to end curriculum that is ORIGINAL. Included, you will have a four-and-a-half-page short story with a large emphasis on technol
Dystopian Reader
Digestible collection of excerpts from famous dystopian texts allowing students to zero in on major themes of the text. The collection includes: The Handmaids Tale, 1984 as well as Fahrenheit 451. This can be used as a stand alone reader or in support of the Animal Farm workbook.
Library Fiction Genre Sign: DYSTOPIAN
A high resolution sign for the DYSTOPIAN section of your library. Large red letters with the word "Dystopian" are surrounded with gray scale words that describe the type of books shelved in this section. This PNG file can be printed as a poster for signage or as handouts for library/classroom activ
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Dystopian Narrative
Package includes: 1. Slide presentation [37 slides] 2. Visuals and prompts 3. 5 assignments, 2 summatives 4. Worksheets, assignment handouts and rubrics Intro: This unit gives students the opportunity to critically interpret a dystopian narrative focusing their analysis on the concept of otherne
This activity is enacted into two parts: the first part is a cooperative learning group assignment, and the second part is an independent creative writing assignment.Part one requires students to work as a group to outline specific, prompted components of a Dystopian society of their own creation. P
Dystopian Speech
This is an assignment and a descriptive rubric for students to complete a dystopian speech. The process will help students work through the argument process [making a claim, providing evidence, explaining evidence]. It's in the form of an editable Word document, so you can make any necessary chang
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Dystopian Plot Diagram and Book Cover
This is an activity that I created for my students after reading stories by Ray Bradbury [Fahrenheit 451, The Veldt, All Summer in a Day, and There Will Come Soft Rains]. If they were to write their own dystopian story, who would the characters be? What would the setting be? What would the major con
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THE DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY
It's that time of the year where you teach Utopian and Dystopian literature. Well, this product will help students to understand the concepts and shine in your class!This THE DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY product can be used for comprehension of Dystopia. Indeed, this FREEBIE has 4-pages definitions and descrip
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Dystopian Discussion Bookmark
Printable bookmark for students to keep track of evidence and questions to have ready for class discussion! This bookmark focuses on dystopian themes, character development, connections to the text, and relatable discussion questions that students want to discuss during class. Edit the file to chang
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In this editable worksheet, students will use their critical reading skills to identify textual evidence related to characteristics of a dystopian society [rules, consequences, government, family, celebrations, jobs, school, etc]. Then they will make connections to the real world to further their un
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This graphic organizer can be used to support students' understanding of the relationship between setting and other literary elements such as characterization, conflict, and plot. When reading larger works in which the world is subtly developed, this graphic organizer would allow students to condens
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Start off your dystopian novel right-- use for 1984, Hunger Games, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Divergent, Uglies, and more! Help your students understand the concept of a dystopian society with clips & trailers from well-known movies, ranging from Wall-e to The Matrix to The Hunger Games!I create
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Breathe Novel Literature Guide
Complete unit on the Dystopian book Breathe by Sara Crossan. Includes Reading Logs, Literature elements, Pre-reading discussions and activities for every 3 to 4 chapters [a section], Open-ended questions for each section, Quizzes on each section, Vocabulary words and activities for each section, Wor
Brave New World
Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State of genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific developments in reproductive technol
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Create a Utopia: a Reflective Group Project
Utopia | Create a Utopia | Utopia Project | Dystopian Project The concept of a utopia is one with applications in both the English and history classrooms. Many people have tried, and failed, to create utopias at various stages in human history. In many works of literature, including many of the cu
Feed by M.T. Anderson: Anticipation Guide
M.T. Anderson's Feed is a YA, dystopian novel exploring the effects of social media, corporate greed, climate change, and technology on our future world. This an anticipation guide which will help students to preview the novel and its main ideas with the goal of setting the stage for deep analysis a
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Hook your students on Ray Bradbury's famous dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, with this introductory activity set. The engaging author research activity gives your students important information about Ray Bradbury, and an introductory slideshow provides the necessary background on the dystopian genre
Hook your students on George Orwell's famous dystopian allegory, Animal Farm, with this introductory activity set. The engaging author research activity gives your students important information about George Orwell, and an introductory slideshow provides the necessary background on the dystopian gen
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The Walking Deadskins
Super-creative writing prompt to use with dystopian literature study and the zombie as cultural metaphor. Students love it! Editable for your specifications. Our school mascot is the Redskin, so I used the title "The Walking Deadskins."
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LAST PICK by Jason Walz - Teacher Guide
In this first volume of Jason Walz’s dystopian graphic novel trilogy, the kids last picked are humanity’s last hope.Three years ago, aliens invaded Earth and abducted everyone they deemed useful. The only ones spared were those too young, too old, or too “disabled” to be of value. Living on Earth un
Fahrenheit 451 Guided Reading Notes
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" presented readers with a dystopian setting, antihero protagonist, and terrible prediction: That someday screens would overwhelm our lives and we would be left empty and alone. With nearly every teenager possessing a cell phone and countless other electronic devices, t
Fahrenheit 451 Collaborative Cafe [Pre-Reading Activity]
Get your students engaged in Ray Bradbury's futuristic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 with this collaborative and student led pre-reading activity. We've provided 7 structured activities based on the novels themes and topics including: censorship, utopian/dystopian ideals, banned books, technology a
Pick-a-Prompt [fully editable file]
This resource contains three creative writing prompts—fantasy, dystopian, and horror—with space for the students to brainstorm and write their stories. The students can choose which prompt to write a story about, and the ones they do not choose the first time can be assigned at another time.I have i
Utopia Essay
Essay prompt, outline, and rubric! Pairs well with dystopian literature, such as The Giver or The Hunger Games, but it can also be used on its own.
1984 Synthesis Motif Essay Package
For English 9 Honors, this is post our dystopian text unit. Students had to read 1984 and Anthem during this time. Students were to pick a motif that they had tracked in both texts and could find in a third text of their choosing [a poem or additional short story that we had read in class]. This p
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Culminating project idea to use after reading a utopian/dystopian novel or piece of fiction. Students design a perfect world by answering questions about their society's government, laws, education, economy, transportation, recreation, climate, currency, and technology, Students create a map or mode