Do Now (Friday) | See, Think, Connect
Do Next | Read How Popular Dystopia Allows Us To Keep Real Horrors at Arms Length Make a class mind map
Research Topics | Today you will begin looking for dystopian elements in our society. To do this, visit accredited news organizations. Investigate articles about topics that you think represent dystopian elements in our society:
Studio Time | You have thinking routines and cyberjournals due for the following Dystopian short stories.
Exit Slip | Proposed research topic Do Now (Monday) | See, Think, Wonder, Connect
Do Next | Goal Setting
Research | Annotated Notes
Exit Slip | Reflection
We start our last short story on Monday!
Do Now | Goal Setting Assignment Notebook Technology
Socratic Seminar | What is the worst dystopian element so far? Why? Do Now (Thursday) | On the note card provide at the door, create a symbol that represents your definition of survival. Write the definition beneath the symbol.
Analysis | Amaryllis, Carrie Vaughn We will read the first half of the story aloud as a group. Circle Up: What are the elements of dystopian literature that you recognize in the story so far? What is some evidence of these elements? We will finish the story aloud as a group. Parking Lot: What does survival mean? What are the different ways we survive? Thinking Routine | System, Think, Feel, Care
Do Now (Friday) | Rename the short story Amaryllis is obviously the name of the short story, but really only tells us the name of the boat. Rename the short story to identify one of the themes of survival. Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your third cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Étude Portfolio. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
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Professional Publication | Google Sites Cyberjournal
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Do Now | Parking Lot
Analysis | Harrison Bergerone, Kurt Vonnegut Today you are going to individually read the short story Harrison Bergerone by Kurt Vonnegut. While reading you are going to complete the Perceive, Know, Care About thinking routine. In the past, you completed this thinking routine based on a character in a story. Today, you are going to complete it from the perspective of the government from the story.
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your second cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in weebly.com. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
Outline
Professional Publication
Do Now | Circle Up
What is one word that comes to mind when you think of government? Do Next | Four Corners In the four corners of the room, there is a paper with a quote about the role of government.
Analysis | Harrison Bergerone, Kurt Vonnegut Today you are going to individually read the short story Harrison Bergerone by Kurt Vonnegut. While reading you are going to complete the Perceive, Know, Care About thinking routine. In the past, you completed this thinking routine based on a character in a story. Today, you are going to complete it from the perspective of the government from the story.
Exit Slip | Thematic Statements What is the story really about?!!! What does it suggest about human nature, government control, society?!! Do Now | Headlines Routine
Create a headline that captures your ideas about the house in the short story from Friday. Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your first cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in Google Sites. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
Outline
Professional Publication
éPortfolio | Update Individuality
Exit Slip | Cyberjournal Submission After you Post the blog post, open the internet version of your Writing Portfolio. Click on Cyberjournal/Blog then on your newly published post. Send that URL link to Addie using the éPortfolio Submission Form.
Gathering (Thursday) | Two Truths and a Lie
Two Truths and a Lie: Record two truths you would be willing to share with the world via social media. Create one lie that might enhance your image on social media in a way you would like it enhanced.
Parking Lot | Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate
Do Now (Friday) | Do human influence technology or does technology influence humans? Thinking Routine | August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury We understand stories, characters, ideas more deeply when we consider them from multiple perspectives; so, we are going to listen to the story, doodle the story, discuss the story. For this activity, respond to the prompts in both text and images; create rough sketches, symbols, visual texts.
(re)Quick Jot
Do Now | One-Word Go-Around
Say the first word that comes to mind when thinking about your short dystopian story. Studio Time | Goal Setting
Assignment Notebook | GRADES HAVE BEEN UPDATED FOR UNIT 1!
Exit Slip | Studio Time Reflection
Seating Chart! Do Now | See, Think, Wonder, Connect
Studio Time
Mind Map In the middle of the paper provided, put the social topic or event that you have researched this week. In a couple of sentences, describe this event and how it represents a dystopian element(s). Annotated Notes DUE Wednesday!Do Now | See, Think, Connect
Research | Google Classroom Annotated Notes
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éPortfolio Submission FormCourse DescriptionThis course investigates stories of Totalitarian and post-apocalyptic societies in order to better understand topics relevant in our current society. We will read one dystopian novel as a group and then each student will select a second dystopian novel to analyze individually. We will break down the five characteristics of dystopian literature and research how those characteristics might already be happening in the world around us—government control, environmental destruction, technological control, survival, and loss of individualism.
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