New Unit: Thematic connections Themes that are expressed in different ways across various texts. Utopia: What is it? Hint: Think about what the title Zootopia means to that movie. Utopia is a perfect society. What is a dystopia? Dystopia is an imperfect, usually nightmarish society. It usually refers to a society that tries to be perfect but has failed miserably.

New Unit: Thematic connections Examples of dystopian literature/movies/TV shows: The Hunger Games The Giver The Walking Dead The Selection 1984 Divergent Fahrenheit 451

Pre-Reading What are the problems facing society today? List them: Is it society’s aim to eliminate these evils? Is it possible to eliminate them? Is a utopia ever achievable in reality? Why or why not? Is a dystopian society possible in reality? What is a current or historical example of a dystopia?

Pre-Reading 5. Choose one of the problems facing society that you mentioned for question one. How would you alter society to fix that problem? Be creative and inventive in your solution, and write specifically how you would alter society and how the changes would fix the problem.

“Harrison Bergeron” First assignment on Google Classroom. Text has questions to answer as we read. We will discuss these, but you must write your own answers down.