PPT-Utopia/Dystopia

Pros and Cons Lisa Johnson Lincoln County Middle School Language Arts Watch The Video Utopia Dystopia Quick write your first thoughts Discuss Making a Claim In this unit we will make a claim on whether or not society would benefit from a utopian society We will back our claim up with valid reasoning and relevant evidence. Point of view The narrator speaks in the first person subjectively describing only what he sees hears thinks and experiences Tone Irreverent comica l hateful playful juvenile Tense Past though in the last few paragraphs the narrator switches to p Ursula Le Guin. The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrodinger’s and other physicists, is not to predict the . future— . . . but to . describe reality, the present world. Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.. DYstopia . Lisa Gehler & Marieke Lange. General Information about Utopia. “not“ and “place“. Ideal community or society. Invented by Sir Thomas Morus. Attempt to create an ideal society. Webquest. Your Name Here. Ms. Smith. Period . Date in . MLA Format. Introduction . You will spend today and tomorrow researching the following sites to gather information on the ideas and elements related to utopias/dystopias.. Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature. Birkbeck, University of London. . Utopian Collective . . . Futures. The Literary Utopia. Tommaso. . Campanella. , . City of the Sun. (1602). Thomas More, . By Trajan Harris and Jesus Juarez. Utopia. Often considered an imaginary place. A perfect society. Established laws, governments, and societies that were considered ideal . The ideal utopian society. Dystopia. Dys. = bad. Topia. = place. What’s the opposite of a . dystopia. ?. Dystopia. In literature, a dystopia is a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a . Pros and Cons. Argument Mini-Unit. Lisa Johnson. Lincoln County Middle School. Language Arts. Lessons created using a process developed by the . National Project i3 College Ready Writers Program funded by the Department of Education.. :. An . acrostic for the word “. DYSTOPIA” . 5 Important lines from the . stories we read this week (“Harrison Bergeron” and “There Will Come Soft Rains” that . illustrate the elements of a . Utopias. . and . Dystopias. from the Muslim World. dsd. Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad. Founder and Editor. Islam and Science Fiction Project. Center for Data Science. Department of Computer Science. University of Washington. Create a circle map with at least ten descriptive words for your version of a perfect society.. instructions. Read through the various excerpts from Thomas More’s book, . Utopia. . . Discuss in your groups what your version of a utopian society looks like.. Huxley. Introduction Lecture.  . What . does the “perfect” or “ideal” society look like? How does it function?. “O wonder!. How many goodly creatures are there here! . How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world. Amie . Rott. Megan Buckler. Who was Robert Owen?. Born May 14. th. , 1771 in Newtown, Wales. Died November 17th, 1858 in Newtown, Wales. Advocated for socialism. Notorious for his community experiments which Owen designed in hopes of having a Utopian society. Lois Lowry’s novel, . The Giver. , is part of a long literary tradition in which writers attempt to describe the perfect society. Ancient Greek philosopher Plato probably envisioned the first Utopian society in Plato’s Republic, written 350 B.C.E. .