We kicked off our dystopian book clubs this week and the students are pretty excited. This genre of books is my favorite, and the favorites of many students, and yet there are also some who have never experienced it. For the past month, we have been actively searching for the titles we ...
Read Dystopian Short Stories, teach and learn the genre with ideas from this resource guide. Overview of dystopian fiction, recommended stories, quotes, discussion questions and useful links.
Consider the age group and grade level of your students. Tailor the complexity of the dystopian elements to their understanding and maturity. 2 Choose Relevant Texts or Media Select dystopian novels, short stories, films, or even excerpts from such works that are appropriate for your students' ag...
There are many benefits in year-round schooling over the traditional school calendar, students don’t have the long 3 month summer break where they lose a lot of what they have learned, and it helps the troubled students with attending and excelling in school. It is believed that over the ...
However, Kathy and her friends, also clones, are raised in Hailsham, a school which makes the students produce art to prove to the outside world that these clones indeed have souls making them individuals. This book and two short stories from Kurt Vonnegut 1137 Words 5 Pages Decent Essays ...
Both of these basic principles are implicit in the AP curriculum – it is assumed that students understand them, so they aren’t taught. I can tell you (from my daughter’s experience) that such an assumption is not safe. And the doctrine of self-sufficient synergy is essentially the (now...
He told me about a final paper he assigns for his journalism students at Yale, in which they have to turn in a magazine-length feature and list “at least 15 people they interviewed and four people who told them to go fuck themselves. There is no way they could do that assignment with...
We always have those who covet what others have, without working for it. The Rustraisers treated combat like a sport. You can’t change the basic nature of people and their feeling of entitlement. Trust is hard fought. I love apocalyptic/dystopian stories, where people have to figure out ...
Regardless, the video was then shared by Zach Weinberg, an NYC-based tech executive, who was horrified enough to spring into action and offer money to students to create more videos like it. “I would like to pay an NYU film student to document the craziness we have on our ...
Parents and students all over the country argue that dress codes are directed mainly at girls and are a blatant example of gender inequality. The idea behind the strict enforcement of a dress code is that it will teach self-respect and raise moral standards for the students. However, when ...