English 12 · Week 21 · Modern Worlds and Real World Writing
Dystopia and Freedom
1984 or Brave New World and the cost of comfort.
- Students will
- Students determine two themes, including one about freedom and comfort, in a dystopian text and analyze how they develop and interact.
- SEL skill
- Use a feeling about freedom as information and weigh what a society trades for comfort
- What it looks like
- Students use emotions as information to think critically about what they would trade for comfort.
- Content focus
- Dystopia, freedom, and the cost of comfort
- Format
- Structured discussion
Responsible decision-making
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What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- RL.11-12.2: Reading: Literature, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 2
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.6 Reading and viewing closely
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Any fiction
- Popular books named: 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid's Tale
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 12, Unit 3: An Exchange of Ideas
- HMH Collections Grade 12, Collection 3: Voices of Protest
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 3: Big Brother and the Authoritarian Surveillance State (1984)
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 4: Brave New World
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More responsible decision-making activities for English 12
- Shakespeare and Ambition Responsible decision-makingAmbition and its costs in Macbeth or another tragedy.
- Satire and Social Change Responsible decision-makingA Modest Proposal and satire as protest.
- Frankenstein and Responsibility Responsible decision-makingCreators' responsibility, from science to AI.
- Ethics of Technology Responsible decision-makingArguing a position on an AI or technology ethics question.
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